Application of Formal Methods for Interferences

Position description

**Category**:

- Electronics components and equipments

**Contract**:

- Fixed-term contract

**Job title**:

- Application of formal methods for interferences management H/F

**Socio-professional category**:

- Executive

**Contract duration (months)**:

- 18

**Job description**:
- Your main missions will be:
- To propose and develop a formal modeling strategy for the temporal behavior of the hardware platform's microarchitecture and memory hierarchy based on microbenchmarking results of the platform. The microbenchmarking results are produced by a project partner. This modeling will be used to identify interferences and the impact of temporal anomalies on memory accesses, especially their temporal predictability.

You are also expected to:
- Communicate about the work to the project partners, but also work directly with the French and German partners of the project;
Participate in the scientific dissemination of the team's research results (contributions to publications in international conferences) and in the development of our innovations (writing of patents).**Applicant Profile**:
You have acquired the following technical skills- Formal methods: formal specification language, model-checking environment, SMT solvers, etc.
- Compilation: knowledge of design environments for real-time systems (e.g. synchronous programming), compilation chains (LLVM / GCC)
- Experience in terms of interaction with partners in collaborative and/or industrial projects as well as in terms of scientific publications is also expected.
- Desired personal qualities:
- Ability to work in a team, while showing a good autonomy in daily life;
- Scientific curiosity, taste for technical challenges;
- Ability to understand and solve complex problems;
- Ability to take a step back and have a transverse vision;
- Rigorous work methods and a spirit of synthesis.

Position location

**Site**:

- Saclay

**Job location**:

- France, Ile-de-France, Essonne (91)

**Location**:

- Palaiseau

**Languages**:

- English (Fluent)
- French (Fluent)

Requester

**Position start date**:

- 01/09/2024

General information

**Organisation**:
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas:

- defence and security,
- nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
- technological research for industry,
- fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France

**Reference **:2024-32365**Division description**:

- The CEA's technology research division (DRT) develop a broad portfolio of technologies in the fields of information and communication, energy and health.
CEA technology research division leverages a unique innovation-driven culture and unrivalled expertise to develop and disseminate new technologies for industry, effectively bridging the gap between the worlds of research and industry.
CEA-List is a research institute specialized in smart digital systems, located in the heart of the Paris-Saclay science and technology cluster.

**Description de l'unité**:

- Within the CEA List, the Electronics Design Automation and Architectures Laboratory (LECA) has the mission of designing innovative and flexible computing architecture (System-on-chip) that meet the challenges of performance, cost, energy consumption, safety and security, targeting critical embedded systems and accelerators for embedded AI. In particular, the laboratory develops methods for modeling and analyzing safety and security properties in order to verify the behavior of multi-core computing architectures using formal methods.