HEIG-VD is advertising the position of

You will participate in research work on distributed systems for agentic AI (compound AI systems). Unlike traditional systems, an agent remains inactive most of the time before triggering unpredictable computation peaks, so no model yet reliably anticipates its cost. The thesis may explore the design of agentic runtimes, cost modelling and/or capacity planning.

Attached to the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) department of HEIG-VD, you will conduct this research within the IICT institute (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies), in collaboration with the University of Fribourg. The exact scope will be defined with the selected candidate according to their motivations and ambitions.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• 50% of your workload will be dedicated to completing a doctoral t...