Research Assistant or Research Associate in Cloud Infrastructure

About the role:

This post of Research Assistant (pre-doctoral) or Research Associate (post-doctoral) is to conduct research on cloud computing and future cloud infrastructure, under the direction of Dr. Marios Kogias as part of his ERC Starting project titled CloudNG (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101220079).

The post will be based in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London at the South Kensington Campus. The Department of Computing is a leading department of Computer Science in the UK and the world and has consistently been awarded the highest research rating.

What you would be doing:

CloudNG (Cloud New Generation) aims to rethink the foundations of cloud infrastructure in the presence of emerging hardware, such as programmable network devices and novel interconnects, e.g., CXL, and emerging applications, such as stateful serverless workflows and agentic AI. The project takes a clean-slate approach to cloud infrastructure by exploring new architectures, abstractions, and execution models towards designing the next-generation unified cloud stack. CloudNG has a strong emphasis on performance and performance predictability, sustainability, seamless accelerator integration, and by-construction guarantees. The candidate will contribute to different aspects of the design and implementation of the CloudNG cloud stack, including both the control and dataplanes. The project offers a lot of flexibility for successful candidates to bring in their own research agenda and strongly influence the direction.

The successful candidate will collaborate with Dr. Marios Kogias in the Department of Computing, with members of the LSDS group, and with the rest of collaborators in the project.

In addition to presenting research in top systems and networking venues, the Research Assistant/Associate will be expected to contribute towards developing, documenting, and maintaining opensource software related to this project.

Further information on the research of Dr. Marios Kogias can be found at https://marioskogias.github.io/ .

What we are looking for:

• Research Associate: A PhD (or be close to completion) in an area pertinent to the subject area, i.e. operating systems, networking, distributed systems, cloud computing.
• Research Assistant: A strong Master's degree in an area pertinent to the subject area, i.e. Computer Science or a related area.
• Research Associate: A proven track record of publications in top conferences in the field, such as OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, SIGCOMM, EuroSys etc.
• Experience in low-level systems engineering in languages such as C, C++, and Rust.
• Experience in using cloud resources and deploying cloud services.
• Experience in packet-processing DSLs, such as P4, and/or hardware description languages, such as SystemVerilog.
• Experience in writing academic papers.

*Candidates who have not yet been officially awarded their PhD will be hired at Research Assistant level: salary scale £43,863 - £47,223 per annum.

What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution.
• Sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 38 days off a year).

Further Information

Full-time, Fixed term to start ASAP for up to 36 months

We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the advert early if the position is filled. It is advisable that you submit your application as early as possible.

£43,863 to £57,472 per annum

• Research Associate: A PhD (or be close to completion) in an area pertinent to the subject area, i.e. operating systems, networking, distributed systems, cloud computing.
• Research Assistant: A strong Master's degree in an area pertinent to the subject area, i.e. Computer Science or a related area.
• Research Associate: A proven track record of publications in top conferences in the field, such as OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, SIGCOMM, EuroSys etc.
• Experience in low-level systems engineering in languages such as C, C++, and Rust.
• Experience in using cloud resources and deploying cloud services.
• Experience in packet-processing DSLs, such as P4, and/or hardware description languages, such as SystemVerilog.
• Experience in writing academic papers.

*Candidates who have not yet been officially awarded their PhD will be hired at Research Assistant level: salary scale £43,863 - £47,223 per annum.

What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to continue your career at a world-leading institution.
• Sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 38 days off a year)., Full-time, Fixed term to start ASAP for up to 36 months

We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the advert early if the position is filled. It is advisable that you submit your application as early as possible.

£43,863 to £57,472 per annum