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:
Junior Scientist (m/f/d) for Site-Specific Channel Modelling for 6G (Including a PhD Thesis)
Center for Digital Safety & Security
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 domains.
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 a 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 a 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 a 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 53,578.00. 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 our AIT 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! 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 your CV, cover letter, certificates, and contact details of at least 2 references online.
