ADVISOR/BI-M/10/2026

Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto; Portugal; On-site; EUR 6,700 - 10,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scholarship

Job summary

Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto invites applications for a Master Student Scholarship under Advisor Project on Cooperati ve Autonomous Vehicles for Surveillance Missions in SoftCPS. The grant lasts 6 months starting in November 2026, with possible renewal per RBI-ISEP rules and project end dates.

The selected candidate will work within SoftCPS, focusing on intelligent edge-cloud task offloading across heterogeneous vehicles and distributed sensors, contributing to model design,

Qualifications

• Hold a bachelor׳s degree.
• Are enrolled in a Master in the area of Critical Computing Systems Engineering or similar.
• Have academic or professional experience in topics related to the proposed work plan.

Responsibilities

• Define and address the work plan on intelligent task offloading and dynamic migration in the edge-cloud continuum for the ADVISOR coastal maritime surveillance use case.
• Contribute to the ADVISOR simulation framework, QoS monitoring, and safety mechanisms.
• Develop and validate offloading policies and metrics; prepare technical documentation and dissemination material.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Organisation/Company Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Department Human Resources Department Research Field Engineering » Computer engineering Engineering » Electrical engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Bachelor Positions Application Deadline 2 Nov 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Country Portugal Type of Contract Other Type of Contract Extra Information Scholarship Research Position Job Status Other Job Status Extra Information Scholarship Research Position Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Other EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

A call is open for the allocation of Master Student under Advisor Project ‘Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles for Surveillance Missions’/ ISEP’s Research Group on Software Technologies for Cyber-Physical Systems (SoftCPS), project COMPETE2030-FEDER-01241600 - 17573, co-funded by the Innovation and Digital Transition Thematic Programme (COMPETE2030) through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Portugal 2030, under the following conditions:

1.SCIENTIFIC AREA

Informatics, Computer, Electrical Engineering, or related areas.

2.ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

• hold a bachelor´s degree;
• are enrolled in a Master in the area of Critical Computing Systems Engineering or similar;
• have academic or professional experience in topics related to the proposed work plan.

If the qualification has been granted by a foreign higher education institution, it must comply with the provisions of Decree-Law No. 66/2018, of August 16, and any formalities established therein must be fulfilled until the act of contracting.

Fluency in English is mandatory.

3.DURATION

The duration of the grant is 6 months, starting in November 2026, eventually renewable, up to the limit set out in the RBI-ISEP, or until the end of the project, whichever occurs first.

4.ACTIVITY OBJECT / WORK PLAN

The work plan will address intelligent task offloading and dynamic migration along the edge-cloud continuum for the ADVISOR coastal maritime surveillance use case, involving heterogeneous autonomous vehicles and distributed sensing/compute nodes. Building on the project’s existing co-simulation environment, safety layer and communication QoS monitoring mechanisms, the work will: (i) define an edge-cloud computing hierarchy and task model covering vehicle, near-edge, shore-edge and cloud resources; (ii) design and implement service discovery, task partitioning and orchestration mechanisms supporting configurable placement, offloading and migration policies; (iii) define decision metrics considering computational load, end-to-end latency, bandwidth, packet loss/jitter, communication availability, task criticality and data freshness/temporal relevance; (iv) integrate the offloading engine with the QoS monitor and safety mechanisms so that placement decisions can adapt to link degradation, disconnection and resource variation while preserving safe operation; and (v) validate the developed mechanisms in representative simulation scenarios, comparing local-only, static offloading and adaptive migration strategies. The expected results are a reusable prototype integrated in the ADVISOR simulation framework, an experimentally validated set of offloading policies and metrics, technical documentation, and results suitable for dissemination and scientific publication. The work will contribute to the ADVISOR objective of increasing the capacity and flexibility of computationally intensive detection and classification functions through intelligent edge/cloud task migration.

5.SCIENTIFIC ORIENTATION AND WORKPLACE

The work will be developed at ISEP/ Software Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Laboratory (SoftCPS) under the scientific supervision of Professor (PhD) Ricardo Severino.

8.SELECTION METHODS AND COMPOSITION OF SELECTION BOARD

The assessment should focus on and consider the following criteria:
Curricular Evaluation:
a)Adequacy of qualifications to the intended area/profile (40%)
b)Adequacy of the activities listed in the curriculum to the intended area / profile (60%)
The five candidates best ranked in the Curricular Evaluation may be invited for an interview; in this case the final evaluation will be performed:
a)Curricular Evaluation (70%)
b)Interview (30%)
If the Jury decides not to conduct interviews, the final evaluation will be related to the Curricular Evaluation only.
Notes: Candidates may be excluded from the contest on the following grounds:
a)Failure to meet the qualifications and requirements established in this notice (point 2.);
b)Candidates scoring less than 9.5 in any of the evaluation components will be excluded from the selection procedure, not being evaluated in the subsequent component(s);
c)Failure to attend the interview, when applicable, or to provide any additional clarifications that may be requested by the Juri, will be considered withdrawal from the competition.

• Professor (PhD), Ricardo Severino (ISEP project leader) (President);
• Professor (PhD) Luis Lino Ferreira (Member);
• Professor (PhD) Luis Miguel Pinho (Member);
• and as alternate member Professor (PhD) António Barros (substitute member).

10.DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS

The reception of applications runs from 20 October to 2 November 2026

11.FORM OF PUBLICATION / NOTIFICATION OF RESULTS

The results of the evaluation will be disseminated by e-mail, to the e-mail adress indicated in the application file.

Requirements

Research Field Engineering » Computer engineering Education Level Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Research Field Engineering » Electrical engineering Education Level Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute Instituto Superior de Engenharia Country Portugal State/Province Porto City Porto Postal Code 4249-015 Street Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida 431 Geofield