PhD Stipend: Energy-Efficient Agentic AI

AAU; Aalborg Kommune; On-site; DKK 320,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Aalborg University’s Technical Faculty of IT and Design invites applications for a PhD stipend on measuring and reducing energy cost of agentic AI. The three-year position starts 1 March 2027 or soon after, affiliated with the DSSS group in the DEIS section of the Department of Computer Science.

The project is funded by DFF and conducted in collaboration with Aalborg University Business School. Candidates should hold a Master's in CS or SE and have strong research design skills.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or software engineering or related field.
• Strong interest in efficiency and sustainability of computing systems and ability to design careful experiments.
• Solid programming skills (Python) and experience with Linux-based systems.
• Experience with one or more: LLMs and agent frameworks, energy or performance measurement, benchmarking, empirical software engineering, distributed or embedded systems, GPU/HPC environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute experiments to measure energy use of agentic AI.
• Develop evidence base on energy spend per task and conditions for cheaper alternatives.
• Contribute to open-source measurement tooling and benchmarks.
• Collaborate with social science researchers to frame AI energy cost comparisons.

Skills

Python programming

Experiment design

Energy measurement

English communication

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Linux

GPU/HPC environments

Job description

Aalborg University’s Technical Faculty of IT and Design invites applications for a PhD stipend on measuring and reducing energy cost of agentic AI. The three-year position starts 1 March 2027 or soon after, affiliated with the DSSS group in the DEIS section of the Department of Computer Science.

The project is funded by DFF and conducted in collaboration with Aalborg University Business School. Candidates should hold a Master's in CS or SE and have strong research design skills.