Postdoc in Software Systems Integration, Modeling, and Simulation

A postdoc position is available in the Embedded Systems Engineering (ESE) section at DTU Compute. The position is part of AEGIS, Adaptive Grid-Interactive Edge Datacenter Fleets, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network that DTU coordinates. In AEGIS, 10 partners and 15 PhD projects across Europe develop the methods that let fleets of edge datacenters act as one carbon-efficient, grid-interactive resource.

This is a software systems role: you will be the technical integrator of the network. The 15 PhD projects span grid control, cooling, accelerators, forecasting, orchestration, and trust, and their results must connect into one coherent system. You will make that possible through interface-first integration: a shared interface schema, a co-simulation framework, and common benchmarks and datasets. The position does not involve hardware or embedded-electronics development.

Responsibilities and qualifications
Your main task is to build and maintain the technical assets that connect the AEGIS research projects, and to turn them into publications. You will work directly with the coordinator, Prof. Paul Pop, and with all academic and industrial partners. You will also support the administration of AEGIS for 25% of your time, including meeting preparation and follow-up, deliverable tracking, and partner coordination.

The work includes:

• Defining and maintaining the AEGIS interface schema: components, signals, units, time scales, and operating envelopes, kept in a shared repository.
• Building the AEGIS co-simulation framework: a Python time-step simulator where partner models plug in through simple adapters, trace replay, or FMI co-simulation.
• Packaging benchmarks, scenarios, and datasets as versioned, citable artifacts, and running integration sprints at the network's training schools.
• Leading and co-authoring the cross-cutting publications, including a state-of-the-art and challenges paper, the AEGIS reference architecture, and the simulation framework.
• Co-supervising MSc and PhD students when this fits the project and your career plans.

The integration role puts you at the center of the network: you will publish with top researchers across AEGIS, and the shared artifacts give you collaborations, and thus papers, with most of the 15 PhD projects and 10 partner organizations.

As a formal qualification, you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent). 

We are looking for a person with:

• A PhD in computer science or a related field, with a software systems profile: distributed systems, cloud or edge computing, simulation, digital twins, model-based engineering, or performance and energy modeling.