TRB/2026/00054 – OPEN NOTICE FOR INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR PHD HIRING, UNDER THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT DIME, THIS WORK IS SUPPORTED BY THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND

Organisation/Company Instituto de Telecomunicações Department Instituto de Telecomunicações Research Field Computer science » Informatics Engineering » Other Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Positions Postdoc Positions Application Deadline 17 Nov 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon) Country Portugal Type of Contract To be defined Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Other EU programme Reference Number TRB/2026/00054 – DiME Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Note: This is a free translation of the original announcement written in Portuguese, provided only for convenience of non-Portuguese speakers. Only the Portuguese version has official value.

By order issued by the Director General of the Telecommunications Institute onOctober 19, 2026,it was approved to open an international call to select one candidate researcher in the scientific scope of the projectDiME, under the scope of a term contract, with a termination date undetermined, overseen by Portuguese Labour Code. Job description:

• Design, develop, and validate advanced digital solutions to transform urban mobility into an intelligent, integrated, and sustainable system. It addresses key challenges such as decarbonization, efficiency, and coordination through a digitally native, interoperable approach that combines artificial intelligence, advanced connectivity, and autonomous systems within a scalable platform that enables real-time coordination of vehicles, users, and infrastructure.
• Contributing to the research, integration, and demonstration activities with the project partners, ensuring planned deliverables and progress targets, conducting the associated tasks and activities, and communicating with the project evaluation and monitoring bodies;
• Representing the Telecommunications Institute and conducting management activities within the project for overall assurance of the project execution as a whole;
• Dissemination of results through the publication of scientific papers in conferences and journals, as well as participation in preparing events to present and demonstrate the project to the public.

The approximate duration of the contract will be 35 months, depending on the completion of the tasks identified above, and this period is not necessarily linked to the duration of the specific project.

• Decree-Law no. 57/2016 of 29th of August, which approved the hiring of doctorate to stimulate scientific and technological employment for all areas of knowledge (RJEC), amended by the Law 57/2017 dated 19th of July, and regulated by Regulatory Decree nr 11-A/2017, dated 29th December
• Labour Code approved by Law no. 7/2009 of 12 February, under its current Reading.

Any national, foreign and stateless candidate(s) holding a doctorate degree in Informatics, Electrotechnical and Telecommunications Engineering or other related scientific area and a suitable scientific and professional curriculum may submit an application. In case the degree has been awarded by a foreign higher education institution, the degree must comply with the provisions of Decree-Law no. 341/2007 of 12th of October, and all formalities established therein must be fulfilled, by the selected candidate, until the date of signature of the contract.

Additional Information

Basic monthly salary: the basic monthly salary corresponds to level PR2 of the TRU (€ 3,851.67).

Instituto de Telecomunicações informs that it offers a wide range of social benefits to its employees, aiming to promote well-being, quality of life, and support in professional performance. More information will be provided during the onboarding process or can be obtained from the Human Resources department.

Eligibility criteria

General tender admission requirements include those specified in the previous section and compliance with the productivity criteria in force at Instituto de Telecomunicações, ( ) that must be verifiable from the candidate’s curriculum vitae. Additionally, the applicant’s admission to the contest of this hiring procedure must fulfil the requirements pointed out in clauses 1 and 2:

1 – Have proven experience in developing systems to support cooperative, connected, and autonomous mobility (CCAM)

2 – have published more than 10 scientific articles (Document type = Article or Document type = Review) indexed in Scopus

Selection process

The evaluation of the scientific and curricular career has two components, namely:

The assessment of the curriculum vitae and other documentation presented, giving particular relevance to the contributions considered most relevant by the candidate in the last 5 years. This component of the evaluation is expressed in a scale of 0