Fixed-Term Research Associate: Program Summarisation

University of Cambridge; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary supplement 2.5%

Job summary

University of Cambridge invites applications for a Research Assistant or Associate to advance program summarisation techniques within the Computer Laboratory. The post focuses on breaking down applications into representative fragments and grouping similar code for efficient benchmarking across future computing systems.

Ideal candidates hold a PhD or are close to submitting their thesis, with a background in Computer Science, computer architectures, and compilers.

Qualifications

• PhD or near submission with evidence of research output and publications.
• Experience developing program analysis tools and familiarity with program summarisation techniques.
• Experience working in teams with robust engineering practices (version control, continuous integration, automated testing).

Responsibilities

• Develop techniques to decompose applications into smaller parts for summarisation and efficient experimentation.
• Group similar code and identify representative fragments to enable benchmarking.
• Produce and publish results in top conferences; provide links to code samples when possible.

Skills

Computer science

Program analysis

Summarisation

Team collaboration

Engineering practices

Education

PhD or near submission

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Automated testing

Job description

University of Cambridge invites applications for a Research Assistant or Associate to advance program summarisation techniques within the Computer Laboratory. The post focuses on breaking down applications into representative fragments and grouping similar code for efficient benchmarking across future computing systems.

Ideal candidates hold a PhD or are close to submitting their thesis, with a background in Computer Science, computer architectures, and compilers.