PhD student in system software and middleware for autonomous systems (R1)

BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER; España; Presencial; EUR 28.000 - 36.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Restaurant tickets

Private health insurance

Relocation support

Flexible working hours

Descripción de la vacante

BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER invites applications for a PhD student position in the High-Performance Embedded Systems Laboratory. The role targets research on controlling and optimizing autonomous system task execution on HPC platforms using ROS, ROS2 or CyberRT.

You will collaborate with postdocs, engineers and students, contributing to software optimization, task scheduling and platform configuration, with validation activities where appropriate.

Descripción del empleo

Organisation/Company BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER Department Computer Sciences Research Field Computer science » Autonomic computing Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions PhD Positions Application Deadline 31 Dec 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 37.5 Offer Starting Date 16 Jan 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number 734_25_CS_HPES_R1 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Context And Mission

The High-Performance Embedded Systems (HPES) Laboratory at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center aims at carrying out research on bringing HPC technologies to systems with some form of criticality, namely safety, mission and security. This includes domains such as automotive, space, avionics, robotics, manufacturing, etc. Our work is mainly done in the context of bilateral projects with several EU companies as well as several European-funded projects. For further details on the HPES Lab, please visit: https://bsc.es/discover-bsc/organisation/scientific-structure/high-performance-embedded-systems
The goal of this position is to research techniques to control and optimize how the different tasks of autonomous system frameworks execute in the context of high-performance devices with middlewares like ROS, ROS2 or CyberRT, considering appropriate metrics, platform configuration, task scheduling, and validation activities whenever appropriate.
This work will be performed as part of a team with skilled postdocs, engineers and students experienced with the software environment, and hence, providing support to the PhD student hired for this position.

Key Duties

• Software optimization in the context of autonomous systems
• Task scheduling in the context of autonomous systems
• Platform configuration in the context of autonomous systems
• Master in the broad field of Computer Sciences and Electronics
• Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
  • Experience with C++
  • Knowledge in computer architecture and operating systems
• Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
  • Familiar with ROS, ROS2, or analogous middlewares
  • Familiar with NVIDIA platforms
• Competences
  • Problem-solving, proactive, result-oriented work attitude
  • Good communication skills including a good command of the English language (written and spoken)

Additional Information

• The position will be located at BSC within the Computer Sciences Department
• We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
• Duration: Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
• Holidays: 22 days of holidays + 6 personal days + 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
• Salary: we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación Country Spain State/Province Barcelona City Barcelona Postal Code 08034 Street Pz. Eusebi Güell 1-3 Geofield