Industrial PhD Engineer for the Edge AI (StorAIge) project

1. Ph.D. thesis in Artificial Intelligence – Edge AI SW/HW for HealthCare

We are now looking for an Industrial PhD Engineer interested in Artificial Intelligence for an Edge AI solution for Healthcare.

 

 2. Project description

The PhD project will take place as part of the StorAIge project, co-funded by Vinnova and EU (ECSEL call). The project aims to develop hardware and software that will bring AI to local environments by situating data collection and analysis at their source. Concerning hardware, the project also includes the development of next-generation chipset technology for handling AI on the edge’s complex calculation and security algorithms locally. See more in the media release information here:

English: https://strikersoft.com/en/News/strikersoft-joins-eu-project-to-develop-ai-for-swipecare/

Swedish: https://strikersoft.com/sv/fokusomraden/systemhus/strikersoft-en-av-deltagarna-i-eu-projektet-ai-on-the-edge/ 

3.  Your Role

As Industrial PhD, you will be part of the eHealth team which is responsible for our product line SwipeCare as well as for making the SW algorithm part of the FPGA prototype application in this project.

Your research will be supervised by KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology and Uppsala University:

• SW: Dr. Manfred Grabherr, Senior Researcher and Team Leader at Uppsala University, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology. CTO and Founder of Methority. Head of AI Development and co-founder Denapsis Artificial Intelligence

         in coordination with:

• HW: Prof. Ahmed Hemani, KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Your responsibilities include and are not limited to:

• Research and development of the AI SW part on the eHealth use case.
• Participate in knowledge transfer, documentation, information sharing, and you will also do some education course related work at KTH (60 hp).
• Stay abreast of on new technology/technical areas and actively share competencies.

Place: The role is positioned in Kista at Strikersoft and with active collaboration with your project colleagues at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Kista and Strikersofts R&D team.
Target degree: Doctoral degree

 

4. Your skills and experience

We are looking for an engineer with a strong interest in AI, mathematics, computer science and scientific aspects of these subjects. You have a master’s degree computer science and/or electrical engineering or equivalent.

Your strength lies in seeing the big picture specific to use cases and customer focus. You are thorough with a mindset of delivering quality over quantity, as well as having strong communication skills. As a person you are driven, eager to develop yourself further and, team focused. To succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work.

During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their abilities below:

• Can collaborate with others
• Can independently pursue your work and approach colleagues for support/guidance as needed.
• Have a professional approach
• Can analyze and work with complex issues.
• Have a strong background in mathematics, digital design, hardware description languages and machine learning algorithms.
• Mandatory to  write and speak English well (i.e having at least upper secondary school English (=gymnasie-engelska).

Meriting competences (desired, but not required):

• Open Source Development
• Programming languages such as P4, Python, VHDL/Verilog
• Language: Knowledge of Swedish will be a bonus.

After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal competency.

5. What you will be a part of

At Strikersoft we believe everyone has a responsibility to our planet. Our contribution is to design solutions that deliver “A Safer, Healthier and more Efficient World”. And while we know we can’t save the world all by ourselves, each day, each project and each person at Strikersoft means one small step towards a better future for us all. We are a customer focused team with dedicated sales and technical employees with extensive experience in solutions and software development and a passion for turning our customers’ ideas into competitive solutions. We work for long term partnerships with our customers and strive for quality in our products. Our R&D focus mainly on the system design in areas like eHealth, Medtech, Utilities, Logistics and Safety and have delivered successful projects to customers on three continents. Strikersoft have an own product line in eHealth area: SwipeCare for Mobile Healthcare support and Automated Healthcare Support with thousands of healthcare users already. Strikersoft have strong collaboration with Aleris, a very large healthcare chain in Sweden. They will participate actively in this project.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has grown to become one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers, and faculty from around the world. Our research and education cover a wide area including natural sciences and all branches of engineering, as well as architecture, industrial management, urban planning, history and philosophy.

6.  What we offer

• The possibility to study and work in a dynamic and international research environment in collaboration with industries and prominent universities from all over Europe.
• A postgraduate education at an institution that is active and supportive in matters pertaining to working conditions, gender equality and diversity as well as study environment.
• Work and study in Stockholm, close to nature and the water with visits to Strikersoft’s R&D in Kiev, Ukraine, the vibrating center of IT competence and where Strikersoft R&D center is located.

7. Terms

• First day of employment: 10th of August 2021
• Working hours: 100%, i.e., 40 hours per week (not counting bank holidays and vacation).
• The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in three years ' time.

8. Basic Eligibility

To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:

• Passed a degree at advanced level,
• Completed course requirements of at least 240 higher education credits, of which at least 60 higher education credits at advanced level, or in any other way acquired within or outside the country acquired essentially equivalent knowledge.
• Requirements for English equivalent to English B/6, i.e. at least upper secondary school English is mandatory (=gymnasie-engelska)

9. Application

Deadline for applications is 30th of July 2021, closing date at midnight, CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time)

We are looking forward to receiving your application to join our highly motivated team.

To apply for the position please e-mail to cv@strikersoft.com. Please title the email: Application to “Industrial PhD Engineer for Edge AI project”.

Applications must include the following elements:

• CV including your relevant professional experience and knowledge. Your command of language (English and possibly more)
• Application letter with a brief description of why you want to pursue research studies, about what your academic interests are and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. (Maximum 2 pages long)
• Copies of diplomas and grades from previous university studies and certificates of fulfilled language requirements (see above). Translations into English or Swedish if the original document is not issued in one of these languages.
• Representative publications or technical reports (if any). For longer documents, please provide a summary (abstract) and a web link to the full text.

We firmly decline all contact with staffing and recruitment agencies and job ad salespersons.

Questions?

To learn more about the job, please contact Sara Bern, Head of the eHealth team at Strikersoft (sara.bern@strikersoft.com), Professor Ahmed Hemani (hemani@kth.se)

Disclaimer: In case of discrepancy between the Swedish original and the English translation of the job announcement, the English version takes precedence.