About the Company
As part of an initiative by the community service foundation Dieter Schwarz Foundation (DSF), TUM created a teaching and research facility on the Bildungscampus Heilbronn (Heilbronn Education Campus). TUM Campus Heilbronn focuses on the areas of managing digital transformation, family businesses, and computer science.
Responsibilities
- Explore opportunities to unify core parts of different types of graph data systems and develop a core graph data system that can serve as a common building block
- Reduce redundancies in keeping multiple copies of graph data in different systems
- Improve maintenance of the systems and optimize operational costs
Requirements
- Masters degree in computer science with very good results
- Interest in topics around the area of distributed systems and data management
- Basic knowledge in distributed systems and graph algorithms
- Hands-on experience with large-scale data analytics frameworks (Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc.)
- Interest in the development of software systems, very good knowledge and skills in programming with standard programming languages such as C++ or Java
- Excellent command of English
- Very good writing skills
- High engagement, high motivation, pro-active communication skills, and high social skills
Benefits
- Work in a highly innovative environment
- Technical supervision at one of the leading universities of Germany
- Employment as a research associate (TVL-E13) in a fulltime position (fixed-term contract)
- Preference for disabled persons at the same level of suitability
- Encourage applications from women