RESCUE - European training network for reliability, security and quality in nanoelectronic systems

An innovative European training network RESCUE is to take on the key interdependent challenges in nanoelectronic systems design - reliability, security and quality. The project is recruiting to its team 15 Early-Stage Researchers / PhD students.

Today, nanoelectronic systems are at the core of all industry sectors and deployed in life-critical application domains, such as healthcare, transportation, automotive and security, serving societal needs in Europe. Here, the impact and consequences of in-field failures, security attacks or hardware defects could be catastrophic. Reliability, quality and security cannot be treated anymore as standalone aspects and have inherent tradeoffs with application constraints, cost-efficiency, energy consumption, performance of the system and its safety requirements. Along with ambitious research goals, the Marie Sklodowska-Curie action H2020 RESCUE ITN ETN will provide an innovative interdisciplinary training for future European engineers and researchers, placing strong emphasis on developing their creative and entrepreneurial mentality.

http://www.rescue-etn.eu/

ESR recruitment from September/October 2017 for 36 months.

Application deadline: June 10, 2017

RESCUE ETN Consortium

• Tallinn University of Technology, EE
• BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, DE
• Delft University of Technology, NL
• Politecnico di Torino, IT
• Cadence, DE
• IROC Technologies, FR
• Intrinsic-ID, NL
• IHP, DE
• Robert Bosch, DE (Partner Organisation)

Eligibility

• Applicants must, at the date of recruitment by RESCUE, be in the first four years their research careers, i.e. from the date when the researcher obtained the MSc degree.
• Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting institution for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date.

Conditions

• Full-time employment contracts at the selected RESCUE host institution for 36 month.
• The exact salary is to be confirmed upon appointment. The basic, gross amount is composed of Living Allowance = approx. 3110 EUR/month depending on the host country AND Mobility/Family Allowance = 600 to 1100 EUR/month depending on the family situation.
• Enrolment to PhD studies in the RESCUE network.

RESCUE Early-Stage Researcher Vacancies

Reliability
ESR1.1 Test and Reliability of FinFET memories (TU Delft, NL)
ESR1.2 Adaptive methods for fault tolerant embedded systems (IHP, DE)
ESR1.3 HW/SW fault tolerance methods driven by reliability and timing constraints (BTU Cottbus, DE)
ESR1.4 New Techniques for on-line fault detection (POLITO, IT)
ESR1.5 Reliable operation infrastructure for dynamic, high-dependability applications (IROC, FR)

Quality
ESR2.1 Effective techniques for secure and reliable systems validation (POLITO, IT)
ESR2.2 Innovative real-time operating system for error management for single- and multi-core units (BTU Cottbus, DE)
ESR2.3 A synthetic, hierarchical abstraction approach for modelling and managing complex systems quality and reliability (IROC, FR)
ESR2.4 Functional and extra-functional verification and debug methods for complex nanoelectronic systems (Tallinn UT, EE)

Security
ESR3.1 A novel Physical Unclonable Functions technology (Intrinsic-ID, NL)
ESR3.2 Design approaches for tamper resistant crypto implementations (IHP, DE)
ESR3.3 Side-channel and Fault Attack resistant security primitives design (TU Delft, NL)
EDA Tools and Methodologies
ESR4.1 EDA tools and methodologies for reliable nanoelectronic systems (Cadence, DE)
ESR4.2 EDA tools and methodologies for high quality nanoelectronic systems (Cadence, DE)
ESR4.3 Open-source EDA tools for design quality and reliability automation using zamiaCAD (Tallinn UT, EE)