PhD Track: Graduate Project Assistant, Secure Systems

Unist; Linz; Vor Ort; EUR 40.176 - 53.568; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Campus environment

Educational opportunities

On-campus dining

Zusammenfassung

Johannes Kepler University Linz seeks a Graduate Project Assistant for the Christian Doppler Lab on 3rd Party Security Risk Management in Critical Infrastructures. The role is a full-time, fixed-term position (2 years, extendable) to advance a research program and write a doctoral dissertation.

The project develops attack graphs, AI-supported modelling, and optimization-based mitigation, spanning business processes, service provisioning, and software engineering, with a view to explainable

Qualifikationen

• Completed Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Mathematics or Electronics & IT with a software development focus.
• Strong background in cybersecurity, security risk management, formal methods/verification, game-theoretic security analysis, and AI methods.
• Proficiency in programming for software prototype development, graph analysis, and experiments in virtualized setups; experience with institutional GitLab.

Aufgaben

• Perform scientific work aiming to write a dissertation.
• Expand the evidence base through literature reviews and industry engagement.
• Apply selected tools in piloting environments to identify system components and validate results with experts.
• Construct and analyze attack graphs, run simulations and optimizations.
• Integrate results with partner processes and contribute to dissemination of findings.

Kenntnisse

Cybersecurity

Security risk

Formal methods

AI methods

Programming

English (C1)

Ausbildung

Master's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

GitLab

Python

Rust

C

Java

Jobbeschreibung

Johannes Kepler University Linz seeks a Graduate Project Assistant for the Christian Doppler Lab on 3rd Party Security Risk Management in Critical Infrastructures. The role is a full-time, fixed-term position (2 years, extendable) to advance a research program and write a doctoral dissertation.

The project develops attack graphs, AI-supported modelling, and optimization-based mitigation, spanning business processes, service provisioning, and software engineering, with a view to explainable