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R&D Team Lead - Secure Connected Systems__
You want to support industrial research projects and teams with your interest in network management and orchestration technologies, developing methods to automate network operation beyond office IT for industrial use-cases with state of the art networking technologies? Then join ABB, a global key player in industrial automation and smart electrification, as an intern or student worker. Apply your skills and grow personally in a challenging and fascinating environment.
ABB is a technology leader driving the digital transformation of industries toward autonomous industrial plants and buildings. Industrial systems comprise automation systems, networks and devices, software tools and platforms, and control solutions.
In the ABB Research Center Germany, we focus on innovating digital industries and smart and sustainable electrification systems. In our team, we contribute to these goals with connectivity, system integration, and applied security competencies. Become a member of our team and be part of the projects and research teams and their endeavor of demonstrating great results in an industrial automation environment and by supporting with UX approaches as well as prototype user interfaces.
Key responsibilities
The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid
You will be mainly accountable for:
- In close collaboration with our research team, you will be developing a concept to automatically generate requirements for automation networks from textual specifications.
- Analyzing the problem and conceptualizing a solution concept: define a target information model to capture the requirements. Consider the different types of traffic and specifications, which might require different approaches to extract the needed information.
- Implementing the concept: build the conversion concept using existing frameworks. Create a user interface to show, modify, add and audit the extracted requirements.
- Verification: use real project data to test the implementation. Define and run an approach to assess the quality and coverage of the result, i.e. the validity of the requirements and potential gaps in the extraction process.
Qualifications for the role
- We expect you to bring creativity, initiative, and result orientation to support driving our innovations toward new products and services.
- You have a study background in computer science or a related engineering discipline. You bring experience with machine-learning technologies, preferably for both software development and knowledge extraction. A further knowledge of ontologies and knowledge-graphs or industrial communication is a benefit.
- You are highly motivated, team-minded, and able to work independently.
- Fluent English in verbal and written form is required.
Interested in joining our team? We are looking forward to receiving your complete application (CV, Cover letter, Transcript of records) through our online tool. In the case of equal suitability, people with severe disabilities and their equals are given preference.
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Skills Required
- Study background in computer science or a related engineering discipline
- Experience with machine-learning technologies
- Experience applying ML for software development and knowledge extraction
- Knowledge of ontologies and knowledge-graphs
- Knowledge of industrial communication
- Fluent English (verbal and written)
- Highly motivated, team-minded, and able to work independently
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and disability and life insurance included. Immediate eligibility in some roles reinforces the sense of dependable core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as broad, including paid holidays, sick days, volunteer time, sabbaticals, and, in some cases, 25 days of PTO. Flexible scheduling and remote-work options add to perceived time-off and flexibility value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as robust, including a 401(k) with company contributions or matching and, in some cases, profit sharing or pension savings. Stock purchase/share acquisition programs complement longer-term savings options.
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