Postdoc in Trustworthy DevOps for autonomous vehicles

Job description

Several challenges remain before larger scale deployment of Autonomous vehicles (AVs). This postdoc project, part of a Swedish national research project, is investigating how DevOps practices can be adapted to support safety critical systems and specifically automated vehicles (AVs) (http://tiny.cc/dg5nzz). The position is within the Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems research group under the lead of Prof. Martin Törngren. The need for continuous assurance of automotive systems is driven commercially and by evolving security threats but becomes especially important due to the open environments in which AVs operate. This requires  field data to accompany classic verification methods, while ensuring that system updates and new behaviors do not jeopardize safety. The project addresses the gap between the tradition of DevOps, which is not addressing safety-critical systems, and the tradition of safety-critical systems, which does not address DevOps.

The postdoc position represents a unique opportunity to do research on trustworthy DevOps for AVs. The postdoc is expected to contribute to collaborative research (including with other academic researchers and our industrial partners). There will also be excellent opportunities for experimental evaluation and case studies, something we believe is important. You are welcome to contribute to relevant educational efforts, especially in formulating and supervising project-related MSc thesis projects and supervision of involved PhD students. Other teaching engagements  are possible depending on your interests. 

As a candidate, we believe that you have a strong basis in safety engineering, software engineering or closely related fields, ideally with experience in meta modeling and/or contract-based design. We are open to different profiles and directions for the position as outlined in a very recent position paper (http://tiny.cc/kg5nzz). 

Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• A PhD in software engineering, computer science, safety or systems engineering, vehicle systems, or other relevant area.
• Very good skills in software engineering and programming.
• Presentation skills and interests in conducting research in the area. 

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Experience of architectural design of technical systems (computing, perception, controls, autonomous systems)
• Experience from the automotive industry and automated driving
• Competence and experience related to safety critical systems development, including (meta) modeling, analysis and safety cases
• Other industrial experience of relevance
• Research expertise
• Teaching abilities
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality
• Collaborative abilities
• Independence

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

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The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Maximally two pages long.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

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1. Björn Möller, [email protected]