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Your tasks

The chair of Software Systems Programming and Development (Asst.-Prof. Dr. Ronny Seiger, Prof. Dr. Barbara Weber) invites for applications for a PhD position on software architectures for cyber-physical systems (CPS). The position is set within an SNFS research project on sustainable software architectures for cyber-physical systems of systems. The position is meant to strengthen our new research line on software architectures and CPS.

As part of the research project, the candidate is expected to conduct an extensive analysis of non-functional requirements relevant in the context of CPS. From these requirements a formal model and framework including a knowledge base to support software architects in decision making and documentation should be developed. This model and knowledge base should be integrated with the modeling of software systems (including tooling) to automate architecture recommendation and decisions while modeling, as well as to automatically generate system configurations for systems of CPS based on software containers.

The PhD candidate may have the option to support the teaching activities of our chair in the software engineering courses at bachelor level.

Your profile

• You have a university-level master’s degree in computer science.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• You have good programming skills in Java, Python or similar object-oriented programming languages and you are familiar with software and systems modeling (e.g., UML, SysML).
• You have experience with implementing non-trivial software and distributed systems.
• You have knowledge about software architecture, non-functional requirements, microservices, containerization, etc.
• You ideally have experience in the domains of CPS, IoT, robotics, or systems engineering in general.
• You are motivated to work in an international team of distinguished researchers.
• You are motivated by both personal and team accomplishments.

·  Optional: you have experience in teaching software engineering classes (as teaching assistant)

Our research at the Chair of Software Systems Programming and Development at the institute of Computer Science focuses on the development of adaptive software systems ranging from flexible process-oriented and event-driven systems to neuro-adaptive software systems and software development tools. We put special emphasis on topics in the fields of business process management (BPM), software and process engineering, including process modeling, automation and mining. As a novel research direction, we explore the field of software architecture contextualized in cyber-physical systems and IoT (e.g., in smart manufacturing).