[Tccc] R&D Engineer Position - Systems Engineering in the fastFIX FP7 European Project

Place:
INESC ID Lisboa , Portugal (www.inesc-id.pt)

Team:
GSD - Distributed Systems Group (www.gsd.inesc-id.pt)

Duration:
Initial contract for 12 months + contract renewal up to 3 years

Starting date:
October 1st, 2010 (negotiable)

Deadline for Applications:
September 15th, 2010

Job Description:
This position is proposed in the framework of the fastFIX European STREP
Project (http://www.fastfixproject.eu). fastFIX is supported by the FP7
IST Programme. The aim of fastFIX is to build a self-healing distributed
platform that will enable time- and cost-efficient maintenance and
support services for remotely installed software applications.
The R&D engineer will participate in the research and development
activities related to the design, implementation and integration of a
fault replication infra-structure that will be conducted by INESC ID
LISBOA within the fastFIX project. The main work task will be to
contribute to the design, implementation and documentation of a
fault-replication platform, which will allow tracing the execution of
remotely deployed applications and ensure the deterministic
reproducibility of bugs at the support centre.
The R&D engineer will take part in an international team of ICT
scientists and professionals from 6 industrial and academic partners
from 5 different countries with frequent meetings across Europe.

Employment Conditions:
The R&D engineer will be a full time (40 hours per week) employee of
INESC ID Lisboa, working on an exclusive dedication basis, reporting
directly to the GSD leader, with a gross yearly salary ranging from
26000Ä to 32000Ä depending on qualifications and performance. Health
insurance will also be provided.

INESC ID Lisboa:
INESC ID Lisboa, ìInstituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores:
InvestigaÁ"o e Desenvolvimento em Lisboaî is a private not for-profit
institution dedicated to research and development. It is owned by
Instituto Superior TÈcnico and INESC ñ Instituto de Engenharia de
Sistemas e Computadores. INESC-ID is one of the most dynamic research
institutes in Portugal in the areas of electronics, information systems
and telecommunications. In close cooperation with its partners, INESC-ID
has emerged as an institution of reference, intensely involved in a
number of high visibility projects that define the state of the art in
these areas, both at national and international levels. The institute
integrates a body of highly qualified researchers, which includes more
than 80 with a PhD degree, as well as a large number of post-graduate
students. The majority of the senior researchers are professors, most of
them from Instituto Superior TÈcnico. The intense activity developed by
INESC-ID since its inception in 2000 resulted, up to now, in more than
1700 scientific papers, dozens of industrial prototypes as well as a
number of patents and awards.

GSD - Distributed Systems Group:
The Distributed Systems Group is a research group of INESC ID Lisboa.
Most of our members are either faculty or students at IST or but we also
have a number of external collaborators from other Portuguese academic
institutions and hired international staff. The group is located at the
INESC ID Lisboa building near the Alameda campus of IST in central Lisbon.
The Distributed Systems Group at INESC-ID Lisboa performs research in
the area of adaptive systems, ad hoc and wireless computing, data
management, grid computing, security, and overlay construction and
maintenance. The ultimate motivation for our research is to make
programmers' lives easier by providing the right abstractions,
mechanisms and techniques for improving the programmability and
performance of distributed applications.

Required or desired skills
- M. Sc. degree in computer science or engineering strictly required.
- Very good knowledge in the design and implementation of distributed
systems.
- Very good knowledge in C and Java languages.
- Very good knowledge of English (read, spoken, written), specially
technical writing. Job interviews will be conducted in English.
- Experience in Java virtual machine programming/modification is a
strong preferential condition.
- Good knowledge of the Linux operating system.
- Experience in software development in a large project would be
appreciated.

Application
Applicants should send their application file including a motivation
letter, a full resume and up to three reference letters to:
Prof. Joao Garcia
E-Mail: jog@gsd.inesc-id.pt
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