Researcher Positions in ERTOS
Researcher (Level 3)
Senior Researcher (Level 4)
Principal Researcher (Level 5)
Senior Principal Researcher (Level 6)
NICTA is Australia's Research Centre of Excellence in ICT (information and communication technologies). NICTA aims to bring together world-class researchers and professional staff, enhance their skills, and build a culture of entrepreneurship and achievement in use-inspired research that will build Australia's ICT capacity. NICTA has two labs in Sydney, and one each in Canberra, Melbourne and Brisbane.
The Embedded and Real-Time Operating Systems (ERTOS) group at the Neville Roach Lab (NRL) in Kensington (Sydney, adjacent to the UNSW) is part of NICTA's embedded-systems research theme. It has an ambitious and highly-focussed research agenda aiming at creating operating systems for highly secure, safe and reliable embedded systems, and a strong commercialisation record, including the spinouts Open Kernel Labs and Audinate.
ERTOS has several openings for research staff at several levels, from post-doc (Level 3, although continuing appointment is possible at this level too) to the equivalent of full professor (Level 6). Successful applicants will have a track record, commensurate with level of appointment, of successful systems research or development that makes her/him a strong member of a large and highly-committed team. Proven strong “systems” skills are essential, as is a willingness to align with our overall research agenda, which is focussed on embedded systems. Senior appointees are expected to define and drive this research agenda into the future.
Besides those general requirements, we are looking for researchers with a specialisation in core operating systems, OS security, real time or power management.
An appointee at level 5 or 6 will also have a strong track record of leadership in Systems R&D. Applicants for Levels 4–6 from an academic background are expected to have a track record of industry collaboration, applicants from an industry background will have strong research credentials.
Appointees may be eligible for a conjoint appointment at UNSW at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor or Professor level. Consequently, the appointee will be able to teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level and supervise honours, masters and PhD students in the above areas. Teaching is beneficial not only for career development, but also for attracting students. UNSW's School of Computer Science and Engineering has a world-class set of courses at undergraduate and advanced level in the systems area, providing us a strong pipeline of well-prepared students highly motivated for systems work.
NICTA has a declared aim of becoming a “Top 10 ICT research institution by 2020”, which implies that we are striving for high impact. Our measures of impact are more general than at universities: They include the traditional measures of publications and citations, but also commercial impact, deployment of open-source software, patents etc.
NICTA offers attractive working conditions, including a good travel budget to ensure people can attend relevant conferences. ERTOS has also funding for engineers, allowing us to build real systems. We have a strong focus in practically-useful work, and very good commercialisation support. This does not mean that we are focussed on “applied research”, but that our research aims at producing practical results (which may be a while off). While the ERTOS group is strongly focussed on building actual systems, we have a close and highly-productive with our formal-methods team, as evidenced by the L4.verified project.
Supplementary documentation (PDF):
- Position description Researcher (Level 3)
- Position description Senior Researcher (Level 4)
- Position description Principal Researcher (Level 5)
- Position description Senior Principal Researcher (Level 6)
To apply, visit the NICTA Careers on-line application page. Please ignore any closing dates that may be shown on the HR site, the positions are still open. Prospective applicants are strongly recommended to contact the ERTOS Group Leader, Prof Gernot Heiser prior to applying.