Research Associate (f/m/d)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association creates and imparts knowledge for the society and the environment. It is our goal to make significant contributions to mastering the global challenges of mankind in the fields of energy, mobility, and information. For this, more than 9.000 employees of KIT cooperate in a broad range of disciplines in research, academic education, and innovation.

The Institute for Information Security and Reliability (KASTEL) is looking as soon as possible and limited to 2 years (with option of duration extension) for a

Research Associate (f/m/d)

Job description 
We are looking for several PhD students/ research associate (f/m/d) to extend our team doing research on dependability of software-intensive systems. Your main focus is the conception, implementation and publication of scientific results. Your scientific work aligned based on the following main topics:

• Software and Systems Engineering
• Architecture-based Quality Analysis for Software-intensive Systems
• Modell-driven Development for Cyber-physical Systems
• Software Engineering for Adaptive and Learning-based Systems
• Software Engineering for IT Security, Privacy, Anonymization

You are aiming for a doctorate as the goal of your scientific work.

Personal qualification 
You should have the following qualifications:

• Above-average academic degree (Master) in computer science, mechatronics or related fields
• Previous knowledge in software and system development
• Interest in new scientific questions
• Creativity and openness to interdisciplinary projects as well as willingness to cooperate nationally and internationally with partners from academia and practice
• Joy in taking on responsibility
• Oral and written communication skills, good knowledge of English, good knowledge of German or the willingness to acquire them.

We offer you an attractive and modern workplace with access to the excellent equipment of the KIT, a varied work, a wide range of training opportunities, flexible working time models, an allowance for the job ticket BW and a casino/cafeteria.

We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.

Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.

Please apply online untill October 15, 2023 using the vacancy number 2154/2023and the reference number 6 to Ms Raquel Carrasco Sánchez, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Kaiserstr. 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany. Please enclose a one-page letter of motivation and relevant certificates with your application. For further information, please contact Dr. Heinrich, phone +49 721 608-45963, email: robert.heinrich@kit.edu.

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