Executive recruitment

Executive job offers

To ensure the institution's management line and represent the diversity of its professions and functions, the CNRS recruits throughout the year profiles with scientific and/or management expertise.

Discover our job offers

02.06.2026

Directeur/Directrice adjoint.e administratif de la Direction Europe et International

Paris
22.06.2026

Directrice ou Directeur du Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Bordeaux

Gradignan
22.06.2026

Directeur ou directrice du Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM)

Montpellier
22.05.2026

Responsable adjoint ou adjointe du service financier et comptable de la Délégation Régionale Alpes

Grenoble
25.05.2026

Coordination du programme « Observatoire de la biodiversité des sites CNRS »

Paris
24.04.2026

Directeur ou directrice adjoint·e administratif·ve adjoint·e de CNRS Biologie

Paris
30.04.2026

Director of the National Institute for Sciences of the Universe at the CNRS

Paris
30.04.2026

Directeur Adjoint Scientifique ou Directrice Adjointe Scientifique « Mondes modernes et contemporains"

Paris
15.04.2026

Director of the Villefranche Marine Station/Villefranche Sea Institute (Villefranche-sur-Mer)

Villefranche-sur-Mer
31.03.2026

Deputy Director of the DDOR in charge of digital infrastructure

Paris
31.03.2026

Deputy Coordinator of the CNRS National Prevention and Safety Coordination Unit

Meudon
04.05.2026

Director of the Laboratoire des 2 Infinis — Toulouse (L2IT)

Toulouse
30.04.2026

Director of the Laboratory of Planetology and Geosciences – LPG

Nantes / Angers / Le Mans
25.03.2026

Director of the AIME COTTON LABORATORY (LAC)

Orsay
27.03.2026

Director of Geosciences Rennes

Rennes
13.04.2026

Director of Administration at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

Grenoble
30.04.2026

Director, Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales

Toulouse
12.05.2026

Director of the ThermoStructural Composites Laboratory (LCTS)

Pessac
24.03.2026

Training and Corporate Partnership Project Manager

Paris
01.04.2026

French Instrumented Aircraft Service for Environmental Research (Safire)

Cugnaux, France
09.03.2026

Regional delegate for the Aquitaine delegation

Talence
05.02.2026

Director or Deputy Director of Administration, CNRS Chemistry

Paris (16th arrondissement)
16.02.2026

Human Resources Manager Rhône-Auvergne

Lyon

Assistant to the Chief Scientific Officer (ADSR)

Multiples
01.04.2026

Scientific delegate for "quantum sensors"

29.03.2026

Assistant to the secondary accounting officer M/F

Gif-sur-Yvette
20.01.2026

Laboratory Director Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique (LaMP)

Aubière (63178)
15.01.2026

Director, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques

Toulouse
15.12.2025

Director of the Institute of Physics of the 2 Infinities in Lyon (IP2I)

Villeurbanne (69100)
10.01.2026

Director of CEFE (Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology)

Montpellier

Stages of recruitment

Do you have an executive or senior manager profile and would like to join the CNRS? You will find below a list of all the steps that will provide you with useful information about the recruitment process.
  • 01
    You send your application
    You send your application by mail
  • 02
    We will contact you
    by mail or by phone after a first selection
  • 03
    You are being interviewed
    You participate in one or more recruitment interviews depending on the position
  • 04
    We give you an answer
    We will contact you by email or by phone (and/or by mail) to let you know if your application is accepted Â