项目介绍

2025年4月24日

About the position

Are you motivated to take a step towards a doctorate and open up exciting career opportunities? As a PhD Candidate with us, you will work to achieve your doctorate, and at the same time gain valuable experience that qualifies you for a further career in higher education and research, in and outside academia.

Compiler technologies represent a convenient opportunity to automate complex code analyses and transformation to obtain improved characteristics in the output code. Modern initiatives rely on a multi-layer approach to code compilation, which offer a modular approach to domain-specific optimizations.

Your project is expected to contribute to cutting-edge research initiatives leveraging, analyzing, and exploiting wearable computing systems for harsh deployment conditions via code optimization and simulation technologies. You will join a team of international researchers with diverse backgrounds to address the challenges presented by a common problem, and to improve over the current state-of-the-art both with theoretical findings and with technological advances.

You will be expected to regularly engage in critical and constructive discussions with academics from your supervision team, members of your research group, and other research groups within the computer science department.

Your immediate leader will be the Head of the Computing Group. 

Duties of the position

• Acquire and maintain cutting-edge knowledge of the field
• Coordinate with the supervision team to agree on research directions
• Actively participate in a network of European partners to tackle common challenges
• Author and co-author scientific manuscripts in academic English
• Participate in approved relevant international events to disseminate research results
• Fulfil administrative and teaching duties required (if applicable)
   

Be prepared for changes to your work duties after employment.

Required selection criteria

• You must have a relevant background in Computer Engineering or any other related field. 
• You must meet the requirements to access and perform research on dual-use technologies according to Norwegian regulations on Control of the Export of Strategic Goods, Services and Technology. 
• You must meet the eligibility requirements to work on a European Defense Fund project. 
• You must meet the requirements for admission to the doctoral program in Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. 
• Knowledge of fundamentals of C++ programming. 
• Competence in code optimization. 
• Knowledge of hardware/software co-design principles, and computer architectures. 
• Good written and oral communication skills (English). 
• Your education must correspond to a five-year Norwegian degree program, where 120 credits are obtained at master’s level. 
• You must have a strong academic background from your previous studies and an average grade from the master’s degree program, or equivalent education, which is equal to B or better compared with NTNU’s grading scale. If you do not have letter grades from previous studies, you must have an equally good academic basis. If you have a weaker grade background, you may be assessed if you can document that you are particularly suitable for a PhD education. 
• Master’s students can apply, but the master’s degree must be obtained and documented by 01.10.2025.

PLEASE NOTE: For detailed information about what the application must contain, see paragraph “About the application”.

The appointment is to be made in accordance with Regulations for the Universities and Colleges Act (university and colleges regulations) and Regulations for the degrees philosophiae doctor (ph.d.) and philosophiae doctor (ph.d.) in artistic development work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for general criteria for the position.

Preferred selection criteria

• Experience with large C++ code bases
• Experience with MLIR and/or LLVM frameworks
• Experience with Precision Tuning and/or other approximate computing methods
• Experience with one or more heterogeneity-aware code acceleration paradigms (OpenCL, CUDA, SYCL, etc.)
• Track record of open-source code contributions
• Strong motivation, with evidence of independent research skills relevant to the project

Personal characteristics

• Good at anticipating problems and identifying logical solutions as well as contradictions and inconsistencies
• Develops effective, sensible and practical solutions to problems
• Sees the big picture and takes broader considerations into account
• Acquires new knowledge quickly, and is able to use existing knowledge in new ways
• Emphasis will be placed on personal and interpersonal qualities.

We offer

• An exciting job with an important mission in society
• Developing tasks in a strong and international professional environment
• Career guidance and follow-up during the PhD period
• Open and inclusive working environment with committed colleagues
• Working capital that can be used to implement the project
• As a public employee, you have favourable benefits as a member of the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund (SPK)

You will be employed as a PhD Candidate at NTNU and will have access to employee benefits and discounts. 

Diversity

Diversity is a strength, and at NTNU we aim to be an employer that reflects the diversity in society and that makes use of the potential of the population’s collective skills. Our vision is Knowledge for a better world and our values ​​are creative, critical, constructive and respectful. We believe that an organization that is equal, diverse and gender-balanced is essential for us to achieve our goals. 

We strive to attract employees with different skills, life experiences and perspectives to contribute to even better problem solving of our societal mission in research and education. 

If you think this position is relevant and interesting, we encourage you to apply, regardless of gender, functional ability and cultural background, or whether you have been out of work for a period of time.

At NTNU we want to increase the proportion of women in scientific positions. We have a number of measures to promote equality. 

Salary and conditions

In the position of PhD Candidate, code 1017, your gross salary will normally be NOK  536 200,-  per annum depending on qualifications and seniority. A 2% statutory contribution to the State Pension Fund is deducted from the salary. 

The employment period is 3 years.

For employment as a PhD Candidate, it is a prerequisite that you gain admission to the PhD programme in Computer Science within three months of your employment contract start date, and that you participate in an organized doctoral programme throughout the period of employment.

The position is conditional on external funding.

As an employee at NTNU, it is important that you keep yourself up to date with academic and organizational changes and adapt to them.

For the necessary academic and social interaction, it is a prerequisite that you are physically present and available to the institution on a daily basis.

The appointment is carried out in accordance withthe principles of the State Employees Act, and Export control(legislation that regulates the export of knowledge, technology and services). Candidates who, after assessment of the application and attachments, are considered to bein conflict with the criteria in the latter act, will not be able to be employed.

About the application

The attachments (including a description of your scientific work) must accompany the application as these documents form the basis of the application assessment. The documents must be in Norwegian/a Scandinavian language or English. 

Please note: the application will only be assessed on the basis of the information we have received by the application deadline. Therefore, make sure that your application clearly shows how your skills and experience meet the criteria described above. The application and all attachments must be sent electronically via Jobbnorge.no. If you are invited to an interview, you must bring certified copies of certificates upon request.

The application must include: 

• CV and certificates
• Transcripts and diplomas for Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees
• Copy of Master’s thesis. If you have recently submitted your Master’s thesis, you can attach a draft of the thesis. Documentation of a completed Master’s degree must be presented before taking up the position.
• Project outline containing proposals for an overall description of research questions, theoretical perspectives, methodological design for the project and progress plan (maximum 1500 words/4 pages) 
• Publications or other relevant research work, if any
• Names and contact information of three relevant references

If all, or parts, of your education has been taken abroad, we also ask you to attach documentation of the scope and quality of your entire education, both Bachelor’s and Master’s education, in addition to other higher education. If your institution uses “diploma supplement” (normal for most European institutions), you must attach this. A description of the documentation required can also be found here. If you already have a statement from Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir), please attach this as well. 

Joint works will be considered. If it is difficult to identify your contribution to joint work, you must attach a brief description of your participation.

When assessing the best qualified, we emphasize necessary qualifications such as education, experience and personal suitability. Motivation for the position, ambitions and potential for research will also count when assessing the candidates.

NTNU recognizes a wide range of academic contributions and has committed itself to The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment and CoARA (responsible assessment of research and recognition of a greater breadth of academic contributions in accordance with NTNU’s social mission).

General information

A public list of applicants with name, age, job title and municipality of residence is prepared after the application deadline. If you wish to be exempt from entry on the public applicant list, this must be justified. Assessment will be made in accordance with current legislation. You will be notified if the exemption is not granted.

If you think this position looks interesting and in line with your qualifications, you are welcome to apply.

If you have any questions about the position, please contact Stefano Cherubin at stefano.cherubin@ntnu.no. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact HR at hr@idi.ntnu.no. 

Application deadline: 31.08.2025

For practical information about working at NTNU, please visit this webpage. 
 

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