The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses Mare Nostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for Euro HPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.

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The Critical and Autonomous Systems (CAOS) group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center carries out research in system-level software for critical embedded systems in charge of controlling critical application software in domains like automotive, avionics, and space. Our work is mainly carried out in the context of bilateral projects with several companies in the embedded world as well as several European-funded projects. For a complete list of publications of the group in the last years, please visit: www.bsc.es/caos
The deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions to deliver advanced software functionalities is consolidating as a key competitive factor in several industrial domains. In the automotive industry, for instance, two examples are advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) software which are meant to support autonomous operation. This trend towards smarter cars goes hand in hand with increased connectivity (between cars and with the cloud) for increased efficiency and optimized production and deployment. In this context, a set of technologies originally developed for high-performance domains like cloud computing and data-center domains are increasingly considered in embedded systems like automotive. This includes containerization technologies, container-management technologies, and advanced configuration management paradigms such as Infrastructure as Code (Ia C) technologies.

The offered position is meant to cover a Research Engineer position for the exploration of specific tools for containerization, container orchestration, and Ia C in embedded critical systems. The overarching goal is simplifying, developing, and specifying software and hardware configuration and monitoring solutions that are beneficial for embedded systems in terms of timing predictability and resiliency to hardware faults. Those configurations must be managed as automated as possible exploiting reference tools used for managing and provisioning computer infrastructures (e.g. with Terraform and Ansible) and deploying and managing containers (e.g. with Kubernetes).