1 (one) Research Fellowship (BI) for a Master Student

Organisation/Company FCiências.ID Department Bolsas Research Field Computer science Engineering Other Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Bachelor Positions Application Deadline 16 Oct 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Country Portugal Type of Contract Not Applicable Job Status Not Applicable Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number UID/00408/2025 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

1 (one) Research Fellowship (BI) for a Master Student
Ref.: 1406.6 - 1 BI EM ZELVE_LASIGE-SP-

• Scientific Area : Computer Science and Engineering, Computer and Information security
  
• Additional optional skills and qualifications : Previous experience with microservice architectures, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), and static code analysis. Knowledge of software verification (e.g., contract-based design), software security, or energy /performance measurement (e.g., RAPL, htop) will be valued.
  
• Contracting requirements : Presentation of the academic qualifications and/or diplomas, if applicable. Enrolment inMaster’s degree.
  
• Work plan : Development of a CI/CD-integrated solution for the logic validation and energy and security analysis of microservice systems: (1) Systematic literature review on green distributed software (GreenOps), DevSecOps, and contract-based microservice verification; (2) Familiarization with the required tools (CI/CD environments such as GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, static analysis and code complexity metrics extractors, and energy measurement tools such as RAPL), and selection of a dataset of open-source microservice systems; (3) Development of modules for the logic validation and energy and security analysis of source code; (4) Packaging of the modules as a GitHub Actions/GitLab CI component, integrating the solution into CI/CD pipelines and tracking metrics at each commit (e.g., per-service energy scores and logic violations); (5) Collection of ground-truth data using runtime contract checking and energy measurement tooling (e.g., RAPL); (6) Validation of the solution against the selected systems and statistical analysis of the trade-offs between security, code complexity, and energy consumption; (7) Writing of the preliminary report and the Master's dissertation.
  
• Place of work : The work will be developed at theLASIGE Computer Science and Engineering Research Centre , Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon , under the scientific supervision of Professor Wellington Oliveira.
  
• Fellowship duration : This position is initially opened for3 months due to start in October 2026. The fellowship contract may be potentially renewed for 3 months, in accordance with the provisions of Regulation of Research Fellowships from the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P.
  
• Monthly allowance : The fellowship amounts to1090,98€, according to table values of the fellowships awarded directly by the FCT, IP.The fellowship holder will have a personal accident insurance and can ensure the right to social security through adherence to the voluntary social insurance scheme, if not covered by any other social protection scheme, pursuant to C ódigo dos Regimes Contributivos do Sistema Previdencial de Segurança Social.
  The fellowship will be paid monthly by