Do you want beneficial technologies being shaped by your ideas? Whether in the areas of mobility solutions, consumer goods, industrial technology or energy and building technology - with us, you will have the chance to improve quality of life all across the globe. Welcome to Bosch.The Robert Bosch GmbH is looking forward to your application!Employment type: UnlimitedWorking hours: Full-TimeJoblocation: Future cyber-physical applications will become increasingly distributed across an integrated connectivity-compute fabric, the software-defined vehicle or edge/cloud-based applications. These reliable distributed systems will be at the heart of numerous domains including automotive (e.g., connected mobility, highly automated driving), industrial, building, home and beyond. Our competence cluster distributed systems creates innovative solutions, building blocks, methods as well as tools for reliable distributed systems and tackle numerous research questions in that area. Possible questions might be: How to build a QoS-aware E2E IoT Stack from device to cloud? What are appropriate distributed system architectures for automotive, industrial automation, building automation, and other domains? What are the right cybersecurity and privacy engineering methods and technologies for heterogeneous and/or highly distributed systems? Are you a renown expert, with a proven academic track record and/or have experience in implementing products, in one of the following fields?As a senior researcher you will work in our unique research ecosystem and shape research projects internally as well as externally.You coordinate innovative concepts and solutions and implement selected aspects for demonstration and validation purposes.In addition, you will develop and maintain cross-border networks with key players within the business units, corporate research, other organizations, companies as well as universities and ensure that research results are relevant to the product and can be used effectively.With your background, you support us in building secure and reliable distributed systems, combining state-of-the art IT technologies and paradigms with automotive or industrial systems.You act as a role model for young professionals, either internally by proactively sharing knowledge and foster an open technical/scientific exchange, as well as externally, by actively contributing to the scientific environment.Last but not least, you identify relevant trends and developments and initiate suitable internal activities as needed. Join us at Bosch Corporate Research and seize the opportunity to improve quality of life all around the globe.Education: excellent studies in the field of Computer Science and related fields (PhD)Experience and Knowledge: several years of experience in academia and/or industry, experience with (open source) software development and distributed systems, proven track record in one or more of the following areas like cloud and edge technologies (e.g., virtualization / container technologies) or distributed systems (architectures, algorithms, networking, computing), practical knowledge in relevant programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Rust, Python), prior experience with automotive or industrial applications is a plusPersonality and Working Practice: positive, highly motivated and innovative team player, "hands-on" attitudeEnthusiasm: eager to learn new things, to develop novel concepts as well as ideas and to materialize them by means of proof-of-concept realizations, passionate about applied researchLanguages: fluent in English (written and spoken)Work-life balance: Flexible working in terms of time, place and working model. Health & Sport: Wide range of health and sports activities. Childcare: Intermediary service for childcare services. Employee discounts: Discounts for employees. Room for creativity: Space for creative work. In-house social counseling and care services: Social counselling and intermediary service for care services. The recruitment contact or superior will be happy to provide information about the individual benefit plan.