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Research Position:

Important note: This is a summarized English version of the full original announcement written in Portuguese. The content in English is provided for the convenience of non-Portuguese speakers. However, only the full Portuguese version has official value for the evaluation and selection process.
Title:
TRB/2025/00011 - OPEN NOTICE FOR INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR MSC HIRING, UNDER THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT DT4MOB, FUNDED BY EUROPEAN UNION / NEXT GENERATION EU, THROUGH PROGRAMA DE RECUPERAÇÃO E RESILIÊNCIA (PRR) [PROJECT NR. 10/C19-I08/2025.P2025.00153.DT4ST]
Funding Reference Number:
TRB/2025/00011 - DT4MOB
Summary:
By order issued by the Director General of the Telecommunications Institute on May 19, 2025, it was approved to open an international call to select 2 (two) researcher with a master degree in the scientific the scope of the approved project DT4MOB, under the scope of a fixed-term employment contract for a period of 9 (nine) months, overseen by the Portuguese Labour Code
Scientific Area:
Networks and Services
Group:
Embedded Systems – Av
Admission Requirements:
Any national, foreign and stateless candidate(s) holding a master’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering or Computers and Telematics Engineering or similar scientific area, with relevant proven professional or academic experience in the area of distributed systems, software development, and implementing Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility applications. In case the degree has been awarded by a foreign higher education institution, the degree must comply with the provisions of Decree-Law no. 341/2007 of 12th of October, and all formalities established therein must be fulfilled, by the selected candidate, until the date of signature of the contract.
Work Objectives:
• Participate in defining the system architecture and specifying requirements.
• Implement the data acquisition framework, which includes the Sensing and Communications Layer, the integration of External Data Sources, and the Data Aggregation Layer.
• Develop the Digital Road Platform, including the infrastructure for digital twins.
• Prepare demonstrations and write documentation that includes project deliverables and scientific papers.
Applicable legislation:
Labour Code, approved by Law no. 7/2009, of 12 February, in its current reading.
Place of work:
The workplace shall be at Instituto de Telecomunicações, Polo de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro.
Duration:
A fixed-term employment contract for a period of 9 (nine) months, overseen by the Portuguese Labour Code
Monthly salary:
The basic monthly salary corresponds to level 29 of the TRU (€ 2 134,69).
Selection criteria:
  • C1 (50%)
    Curriculum vitae/academic assessment
  • C2 (50%)
    Adequacy of the candidate's profile to the project based on relevant work experience in the tasks described in the work plan

Candidates may be interviewed for clarification of any aspect related to the above criteria
Each criteria, and the final classification F will be evaluated in a scale (0-20). The candidates will be ordered according to:
F = C1 x 50% + C2 x 50%
In case of a tie, the tied candidates will be ordered according to C1, then C2...
The Jury has the right to not admit any of the candidates that applied for this position whenever they consider that no candidate meets the minimum requirements for the position.
Jury:
  • Prof. Joaquim José de Castro Ferreira, Universidade de Aveiro (President of the jury)
  • Prof. Diogo Nuno Pereira Gomes, Universidade de Aveiro
  • Prof. Paulo Jorge de Campos Bartolomeu, Universidade de Aveiro
  • Prof. João Miguel Pereira de Almeida, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes Aveiro (Substitute)
Communication of the results:
The list of admitted and excluded candidates and the final ranking list will be sent to all candidates by email.
Required Documents:
Formalisation of applications:
Applications are formalised by sending a Motivation Letter, addressed to the Board of Instituto de Telecomunicações, including this announcement identification, full name, parents’ names, ID card, or Citizen Card number and date, or civil identification number, taxpayer ID number, date and place of birth, marital status, occupation, residence and contact address, including email address and telephone.
Applications shall include all supported documents encompassed by section 6 and 7 for tender admission, namely:
 Copy of certificate or diploma*;
 Curriculum vitae.
* The administrative verification of the recognition of the degrees obtained abroad will be fulfilled for the purpose of contracting, in case of approval of the candidatures. Further information at https://www.dges.gov.pt/en/pagina/degree-and-diploma-recognition
All the selection process is conducted through the IT web portal. No actions outside this platform are valid.
Application Period:
20-05-2025 to 18-06-2025
Assistance:
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Published on:
20-05-2025
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