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Bachelor-/Masterthesis (f/m/x) - Market Analysis: Composition Analysis of Space Flight Software
Job Description
Req ID:  2691
Place of work:  Oberpfaffenhofen, Berlin, Braunschweig, Köln
Starting date:  zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt
Career level:  Student research project and final thesis
Type of employment:  Part time
Duration of contract:  bis zu 6 Monate

Remuneration: Remuneration is in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Public Sector - Federal Government (TVöD-Bund)

Enter the fascinating world of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.; DLR) and help shape the future through research and innovation! We offer an exciting and inspiring working environment driven by the expertise and curiosity of our 11,000 employees from 100 nations and our unique infrastructure. Together, we develop sustainable technologies and thus contribute to finding solutions to global challenges. Would you like to join us in addressing this major future challenge? Then this is your place!

The DLR Institute of Software Technology sees software as a catalyst for research and innovation. The institute's staff, currently numbering around 200, make a significant contribution to advancements in the fields of aviation, space, energy, transportation, and security through the development of state-of-the-art software solutions and innovative research. Our areas of competence include reliable and safety-critical software systems, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and quantum computing, human-system interaction and visualisation, software and systems engineering as well as digital platforms and digital twins.

 

What to expect

The Intelligent and Distributed Systems department researches methods to make complex technical processes and systems - from software development to automated workflows and AI-assisted analysis - traceable, automatable, and interactively experimentally accessible. Support the research group Sustainable Software Engineering, and share our goal of investigating how scientists (f/m/x) and engineers (f/m/x) develop software and how to efficiently and effectively support them in the endeavour. Using numerous Open Source components has - justifiably - become the standard of modern software development, but external components also come with risks, such as bugs, vulnerabilities, or unmaintained code. For software in highly critical applications (such as space flight) the detection and mitigation of these risks via composition analysis is mandatory.

 

Your tasks

As part of your thesis (Bachelor-/Masterthesis) you survey the state of the art, focusing on language-agnostic tools and the SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) ecosystem. You research available tools (Open Source as well as proprietary), investigate their adequacy for space flight software, and identify links with the relevant scientific literature. In addition, your tasks include: 

 

  • perform a market analysis of composition analysis tools for resilient space flight software
  • evaluate select tools by developing one or several prototype CI workflows (advanced thesis/MA)

 

Your profile

  • Student of computer science or similar
  • Experience with code collaboration platforms (GitHub, GitLab, etc.)

 

The employment is unpaid within the framework of a residence agreement.

We offer

DLR stands for diversity, appreciation and equality for all people. We promote independent work and the individual development of our employees both personally and professionally. To this end, we offer numerous training and development opportunities. Equal opportunities are of particular importance to us, which is why we want to increase the proportion of women in science and management in particular. Applicants with severe disabilities will be given preference if they are qualified.

 

We look forward to getting to know you!

 

If you have any questions about this position (Vacancy-ID 2691) please contact:

 

Johann Schöpfer
Tel.: +49 8153282244 
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