We seek one (1) R&D Engineer in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering. The candidate will participate in the R&D activities of FORTH in the context of the EuroHPC JU-funded project NET4EXA. The NET4EXA project aims to create an advanced interconnect, which will scale to tens of thousands of computing nodes and will support modern HPC systems that are designed for massive AI tasks, such as the training of Large Language Models. The interconnect forms the backbone of such systems, and their overall performance is intimately tied to the scalability of the network and its tight coupling with the high-end compute elements. Requirements • MSc Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering. • Physical presence at FORTH, Heraklion, Crete for the duration of the position. • Demonstrated familiarity with storage systems, performance analysis. • Experience with the Go language, container runtimes, container orchestrators (eg. Kubernetes). • Experience in European Research Projects. • Fluent knowledge of the English language. • Names of at least three professional references. Desired qualifications Knowledge of and/or experience in and/or strong interest for: • System programming (eg. as part of course projects or diploma thesis work). • High-speed network programming (eg. as part of course projects or diploma thesis work).