Postdoc in Trustworthy DevOps for Automated 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). The need to update AVs is driven commercially and by evolving security threats but becomes especially important due to the open environments in which AVs operate. This requires monitoring actual operations and to be able to decide on and perform required updates, while ensuring that such 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 would also be possible depending on your interests. 

As a candidate, we believe that you have a strong basis in software engineering but also other backgrounds and competences can be relevant for the position. We are open to different profiles and directions for the position as outlined in a very recent position paper.

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Engagement in, and use of, our open research testbeds, specifically the AD-EYE platform – where automated driving trials are planning for the KTH campus.
• A multidisciplinary research environment with a creative, international and dynamic working environment, including excellent international collaborations through several related research activities and the TECoSA center.
• Work in Stockholm, in close proximity to nature
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

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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.
• Research expertise and 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.
• As a person you have both collaborative abilities and are able to work with independence.

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 modeling, analysis and safety cases
• Other industrial experience of relevance
• Teaching abilities
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

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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.

Others

Striving towards gender equality, diversity and equal conditions is both a question of quality for KTH and a given part of our values.

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About KTH

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