Ph.d. Student

Company Description

DENSO, the world's second largest mobility supplier, is leading in developing and providing components and systems for automotive components such as heating, air conditioning, motor cooling, exhaust gas aftertreatment, automotive electrics and electronics and instrumentation.

**Job Description**:
The focus of this position is to enhance mobility service and services platforms by blockchain-based identities, called self-sovereign identities, and controlled data exchange.

Recent initiatives towarsds Web 3.0 from EU and German Governments, also under the Gaia-X initiative, aim for an open ecosystem of services and data, where users can control their identities and data in a self-sovereign way. While current, federated identity solutions rely on a specific identity provider, these blockchain based solutions are open and can be used without this provider. The main goal is to design and to evaluate novel services and service infrastructure in cooperation with leading research and technology partners in Germany, in a partly funded R&D project.

The main objectives are:

- Conduct research that is related to vehicle services and data exchange using latest Web 3.0 for self-sovereign identities and blockchain-based technology.
- Contribute to the project with demonstrators and evaluation as in collaboration with the project partners.
- Collaborate and coordinate research activities with partners in academia and industry in Europe and Japan
- Assist in project management and administrative tasks when occasionally assigned by the project manager.

**Qualifications**:

- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science, data science, or related disciplines.
- Highly motivated and keen on working in an international and interdisciplinary team.
- Research background in the following fields (ideally demonstrated by scientific publications) are preferred:

- distributed systems and Web 3.0
- Blockchain technologies for mobility solutions
- Software engineering for cloud and edge computing
- Connected vehicle technologies such as networking.
- Programming skills in at least one programming language, e.g. Java or Python.
- Fluency in spoken and written English. Knowledge of German is not required but preferred.

Additional Information
- International company with various development opportunities
- Open and diverse corporate culture
- Wide range of trainings and education opportunities
- 13 monthly salaries
- 30 days of vacation and a flextime model for flexible working hours
- Generous daily allowance for business trips
- Modern offices, canteen onsite and free parking
- Free coffee, tea and water
- Employee benefits, such as attractive leasing offers, net salary optimization, additional private health insurance, free employee advice assistance hotline and much more.
- Company events

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