Junior Scientist (m/f/d) for site-specific channel modelling for 6G (Including a PhD Thesis)
As Austria's largest research and technology organization for applied research, we are dedicated to make substantial contributions to solving the major challenges of our time, climate change and digitization. To achieve our goals, we rely on our specific research, development and technology competencies, which are the basis of our commitment to excellence in all areas. With our open culture of innovation and our motivated, international teams, we are working to position AIT as Austria's leading research institution at the highest international level and to make a positive contribution to the economy and society.
Within our Center for Digital Safety & Security the research field Enabling Digital Technologies is leading in applied 5G and beyond research of advanced reliable wireless joint communication and sensing systems for time sensitive use cases in the domain of railways, street transport, industrial automation and unmanned aerial vehicles. For our location in Vienna we are looking for a:
Your responsibilities:
- Exploration & design of numerical site-specific radio channel representations methods building on the AIT ray tracer running on a GPU cluster and the AIT quasi deterministic channel model.
- Investigation of physical layer aspects of joint communication and sensing (JCAS) for multi-antenna systems within European and national cooperative research projects for civil and defense domain.
- Validation of radio channel representations with empirical measurement data gathered within the AIT 6G software defined radio lab using our 6G physical layer testbeds.
- Publication of results at international academic conferences and in scientific journals.
- Working in multi-disciplinary team ranging from post-doctoral scientists to master students.
Your qualifications as an Ingenious Partner:
- Master’s degree (or very close to completion) in telecommunication engineering, electrical engineering or related fields.
- Technical skills for conducting research work in the lab and with numerical tools (C, MATLAB, Python) and software defined radio components (NI USRP, LabVIEW, GNU Radio)
- Willingness to start doctoral studies at TU Wien
- Enthusiasm for highly innovative research and high level of commitment and team spirit
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills (English and German)
Details:
- Starting date: January 2025
- Your PhD-Supervisor will be Thomas Zemen (Principal Scientist at AIT & Docent at the Institute of Telecommunications at TU Wien), for further information please contact: thomas.zemen(at)ait.ac.at
- Admission at an university is compulsory and independent from the position at AIT
What to expect:
The minimum gross annual salary on a full-time basis (38,5 h / week) according to the collective agreement is EUR 53.578,--. The actual salary will be determined individually, based on your qualifications and experience.
In addition, we offer company benefits, flexible working conditions, individual training and career opportunities. Moreover, you will be part of ourAIT PhD community with around 150 international students. As a research institution, we are familiar with the supervision and execution of PhD theses, and we are looking forward to supporting you accordingly!
TOMORROW TODAY - WITH YOU?
At AIT diversity and inclusion are of great importance. This is why we strive to inspire women to join our teams in the field of technology. We welcome applications from women, who will be given preference in case of equal qualifications after taking into account all relevant facts and circumstances of all applications.
Please submit your application documents including yourCV, cover letter, certificates and contact details of at least 2 references, online: https://jobs.ait.ac.at/Job/236897
