Start date: September 1st, 2012

Type of contract: Fixed term contract (CDD) for 3 years.

Salary: About 2300 EUR net per month (2800 EUR gross), health insurance included (French Social Security system).

Location: This software engineer position is provided at the Inria Montbonnot site (about 10 kilometres from Grenoble).

Context of the work:

PLC (Programmable logic controllers) are easy-to-use electronic devices that enable the automated control of physical installations, with applications in various domains, such as domotics, water treatment, access control, and small machines to mention only a few. In the last decades, PLC have benefitted from the technological advances of microprocessors and microcontrollers, enabling their price to be reduced and their performances to be increased. Meanwhile, advances in communication systems now enable networks of PLC that communicate with the Internet of things, which opens the way to new applications.

Networks of PLC involve a high degree of asynchronous concurrency, making the applications hard to design and debug. The Inria/CONVECS team develops software tools and techniques based on formal methods for the design and verification of asynchronous concurrent systems, which are packaged in the internationally renowned CADP (Construction and Analysis of Distributed Processes) software toolbox.

This software engineer position is provided within the « Bluesky for I-Automation » collaborative project of the Pôle de compétitivité Minalogic, funded within the 13th call of the French national Fonds unique interministériel. This project is led by Crouzet, the leader of PLC in France. It also involves LCIS (Laboratoire de Conception et d'Intégration des Systèmes, Valence) and the small business companies Mootwin and Vertical M2M.

Work proposed and expected results: The candidate will complete the following tasks, among others:

• Quality assurance of the CADP software, by an intensive non-regression testing of the tools.

• Deployment of the CADP tools on cloud environments to provide a VaaS (Verification as a Service) utilization mode.

• Contribution to the final demonstrator of the verification services developed by the Bluesky project.

Required skills and profile:

• Preference for algorithms and programming

• Care for software quality

• Knowledge of formal methods and verification is a plus

• Good communication, team player

• Education: engineer, MSc, or PhD in Computer Science

• Good command of English, French is a plus

Contacts:

All questions concerning this software engineer position should be addressed to:

M. Radu Mateescu Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes / CONVECS Inovallée 655, avenue de l'Europe 38330 Montbonnot Saint-Martin Tel : +33 (0)4 76 61 54 86 E-mail : Radu.Mateescu@inria.fr

Application content:

• Letter of application

• Curriculum vitæ mentioning the earlier professional experience and the software development projects carried out

• References or letters of recommendation, if any

• Technical or scientific publications, if any

Application submission:

Applications should be addressed directly to Radu Mateescu, preferably by e-mail, mentioning the position number #2012C. Applications received after July 1st, 2012 might not be considered if a candidate has been selected already.