Student Assistant Experimental Network Technologies

Future. Discover. Together.

Natural disasters, blackouts and cyber attacks have led to widespread outages in wired access networks in recent years. This far-reaching impact on optical access networks and the users who depend on them is to be mitigated by the work carried out as part of the FRONT-RUNNER project. The aim of the project is to develop new architectures, technologies and operating concepts that sustainably improve the robustness and resilience of optical access networks. The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) is developing a framework for the proactive detection of attacks together with an end-to-end ML pipeline for the real-time execution of the developed algorithms. It is working closely with the other partners to integrate their developments into the demonstration in the HHI laboratory. Be a part of our team and come on a journey of research and innovation!

 

What you will do

• Support in setting up the project demonstrator

• Setting up a redundant network structure

• Configuration of network equipment, e.g. Ethernet routers and switches (Microtik and others) and passive optical networks (PON)

• Collecting and evaluating measurement and telemetry data in the test setup

• Documentation of your setups and configurations

 

What you bring to the table

• You are a registered student of computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering or a comparable course of study

• You have extensive knowledge of information technology, especially network technology

• Knowledge of virtual machines and containers is an advantage

• Knowledge of communications engineering is an advantage

• You work independently and have initiative

 

What you can expect

• Fascinating challenges in a scientific and entrepreneurial setting

• Attractive salary

• Modern and well-equipped workplace in a central location

• Good and cooperative working atmosphere in an international team

• Flexible working hours

• Hybrid working (part-time office hours) possible

• Opportunity to write a Bachelor's or Master's thesis

 

The position is initially limited to 1 year. An extension is explicitly desired.

 

The monthly working time is 80 hours. We value and promote the diversity of our employees' skills and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of age, gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, sexual orientation and identity. Severely disabled persons are given preference in the event of equal suitability. 

With its focus on developing key technologies that are vital for the future and enabling the commercial utilization of this work by business and industry, Fraunhofer plays a central role in the innovation process. As a pioneer and catalyst for groundbreaking developments and scientific excellence, Fraunhofer helps shape society now and in the future. 

Interested? Apply online now. We look forward to getting to know you!
 

 

 

Contact:

Matthias Koepp

+49 30 31002 728

Dr.-Ing. Kai Habel

+49 30 31002 465

Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI 

www.hhi.fraunhofer.de 

 

Requisition Number: 77213                Application Deadline: 01/31/2025