Postdoc Position in Real-Time and Embedded Systems

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At the School of Innovation, Design and Engineering our students are studying to be for example innovators, entrepreneurs, illustrators, communications officers, network technicians and engineers. Here we have the research specialisations of Embedded Systems, and Innovation and Product Realisation. Our work takes place in cooperation with and in strategic agreements with companies, organisations and public authorities in the region.

Employment information
Employment: Temporary employment
Scope: Full time
Closing date for application: 2020-04-15
Campus location: Västeras
School: School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, (IDT)

Position description
The position is located as part of the KKS-funded synergy project Federated Choreography of an Integrated Embedded Systems Software Architecture (FIESTA), within the sub-project called Multi-core Consolidation (CoreConsol).

Complex systems are today constructed using a large number of collaborating units, e.g., a production line of industrial robots or a set of autonomous vehicles that in collaboration aim at achieving a common mission. Orchestrating such collaborative and adaptive systems impose requirements on both timing and safety. This is challenging and suggests a consolidation of system components to manage the ever-increasing system complexity. The main goal of FIESTA is to develop new solutions that provide scalable real-time performance, in the context of collaborative and adaptive distributed legacy systems, by utilizing resource efficient consolidation while ensuring nonfunctional properties of timing, safety and security. Achieving such a goal will require addressing very different but complementing challenges concerning nodes, networks and distributed systems.

FIESTA research and development will be conducted in co-production among Mälardalen University, ABB Robotics, ABB HVDC / Hitachi, Volvo CE, Arcticus Systems, and Percepio, leveraging and advancing state-of-the-art solutions to manage consolidation in the evolution of legacy (networked) embedded software systems with real-time requirements. These legacy systems come from ABB Robotics, ABB HVDC / Hitachi and Volvo CE, including software, software architecture, operating systems, and protocols, and they are intended to be re-used to an as large extent as possible.

The FIESTA project is a synergy of three sub-projects, together targeting the main goal of FIESTA. The three sub-projects are in place to address different but complementing challenges necessary for the achieving the synergy:


• Concerning nodes (sub-project CoreConsol): Challenges include integration of legacy software functions on shared parallel processors, featuring sub-challenges related to predictable interference among software functions, prioritization of software functions and runnable tasks, and deadlock-free mutual-exclusion among integrated software functions.
• Concerning networks: Challenges include consolidation of embedded networks, integrating previously dedicated networks into a lower number of networks providing predictability of message transmissions, timing guarantees, guarantee on sufficient level of security etc.
• Concerning distributed systems: Challenges include scalable high-performance real-time software, allowing for a dynamic number of real-time software functions to co-exist and cooperate in a distributed environment that is shared with the system’s basic functionality.

In summary the FIESTA project is expected to make several important scientific contributions within the three sub-projects. Moreover, FIESTA will make important contributions regarding the construction of next generations of complex distributed embedded software systems, that will strengthen the competitiveness and improve business prospects for the industrial partners.

This Postdoc position concerns the research intended concerning nodes and will require the interaction with companies like ABB and Volvo.

The position is a temporary employment of two years.

Qualifications requirements
The applicant is required to have a PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent, not older than 3 years.


• Fluent in English, both written and in conversation.
• Good knowledge of embedded systems software.
• Good knowledge of real-time systems.
• Good publication record, and ability to conduct collaborative cross-disciplinary research.  

Decisive importance is attached to personal suitability. We value the qualities that an even distribution of age and gender, as well as ethnic and cultural diversity, can contribute to the organization.

Merit

• Experience in design, analysis and programming of embedded systems.
• Experience with software behavior tracing, modelling, analysis and visualization, in concerning particular non-functional behavior.

Application
Application is made online. Make your application by clicking the "Apply" button below.

The scientific publications that you do not have in digital form are to be sent by post to:

Mälardalen University
Division of Human Resources
Ref.no: 2020/0915
Box 883
721 23 Västerås

The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the application is complete in accordance with the advertisement and will reach the University no later than closing date for application.

We look forward to receiving your application.


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