Assistant Professor in Low-Power Secure Computer Architectures for Edge Devices

The proliferation of edge computing has introduced new challenges in security, energy efficiency, and architectural design. Traditional security mechanisms, designed for general purpose or cloud-scale systems, are often computationally intensive and energy-demanding, making them unsuitable for edge environments. Moreover, the physical accessibility of edge devices increases their exposure to hardware-level attacks, including side-channel analysis, fault injection, and reverse engineering. These threats necessitate architectural innovations that embed security directly into the hardware fabric, enabling trustworthy computation without compromising energy budgets. Treating security as a first-class citizen when designing hardware components and future computer architectures requires novel design methodologies that enable explicit trade-offs between low-power, real-time, safety and security aspects in the hardware architecture. Are you inspired to have your research achieve these goals and develop design methodologies that enable the deployment of scalable, secure, and sustainable edge systems across domains such as healthcare, mobility, smart infrastructure, and high-tech systems? Then this could be your next exciting new career opportunity.

Information
The ES group aims to provide a scientific basis for design trajectories of electronic systems, ranging from digital circuits to cyber-physical systems. Within this position you will contribute to our research on smart electronic systems. Next to your research activities you will develop and teach courses at both undergraduate and graduate level in English. You will also be involved in supervising Bachelor, Master, EngD, and PhD candidates.

In this role, you will contribute to the ambition of the Beethoven program to educate top talent and strengthen research across the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

Requirements

• Motivated researcher with a PhD in Computer Architecture or Embedded Systems research or a comparable domain.
• Strong network (academic, industry); research interactions on the national and international level, supported by e.g. joint collaborations, projects, or publications.
• Experience in management of professionals, aimed at developing people and creating synergy.
• Excellent teaching skills, preferably demonstrated at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Experience with the process of acquiring external research funding from (inter-)national funding bodies or industry.
• Excellent communication, organization, and leadership skills demonstrating the potential of building your own research group.
• Excellent proficiency (written and verbal) in English.

Contract terms

A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station. In addition, we offer you:

• Salary in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities. For a junior Assistant Professor this is (scale 11) min. € 4,728 max. € 6,433 gross per month (on a full-time basis).
• A year-end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%.
• A dedicated mentoring program to help you get to know the university and the Dutch (research) environment.
• A Development Track with the prospect of becoming an Associate Professor. If you have a more senior profile, a tailor-made career proposal will be considered.
• High-quality training programs for academic leadership and teaching.
• An excellent technical infrastructure, on-campus children's day care and sports facilities.
• Partially paid parental leave and an allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs.
• A Staff Immigration Team is available for international candidates , as are a tax compensation scheme (the 30% facility) and partner career support .