Permanent Associate Professor position - Specialty: Microelectronics Design

Organisation/Company: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne

Research Field: Other

Researcher Profile: Recognised Researcher (R2)

Positions: Research Support Positions

Country: France

Application Deadline: 15 Apr 2025 - 23:59 (UTC)

Type of Contract: Permanent

Job Status: Full-time

Hours Per Week: 40

Offer Starting Date: 1 Sep 2025

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Joining Mines Saint-Étienne means engaging in an institution where science and innovation build a more sustainable future. A school of excellence where everyone has the opportunity to reveal their full potential and contribute to meeting tomorrow's challenges.

Ranked among the best engineering schools in France and recognized worldwide, our school, a member of the Institut Mines-Télécom, trains tomorrow's talents while actively contributing to addressing major industrial, digital, and environmental challenges. With us, you join a community of 500 collaborators, 2500 students, and participate in an ambitious project: combining academic excellence, cutting-edge research, and positive societal impact.

The Institut Mines-Télécom brings together the major French engineering schools around major industrial, digital, energy, and ecological challenges. Together, we imagine and build a sustainable future by training the actors who will shape tomorrow's transitions.

As Permanent Associate Professor in Microelectronics Design, you are at the heart of our missions in education, research, and innovation, assigned to the Center for Training and Research in Microelectronics of Provence. Within this center, you combine scientific passion and societal impact.

The Microelectronics Center of Provence (CMP) of Mines Saint-Étienne stands out for its leadership in securing digital transformation. The Secure Systems and Architectures (SAS) department focuses on protecting electronic components and data against hardware attacks. Researchers develop hardware, software, and cryptographic security solutions, particularly for mobile devices. The SAS department collaborates with CEA Leti within a joint team of 32 people.

The recruitment of a Permanent Associate Professor in Microelectronics Design is part of the EU Edu4Chip project and Mines Saint-Étienne's objective to develop its training in microelectronic circuit design.

The contexts and objectives are:

- Education: Design and deliver innovative courses in microelectronics design, adapted to contemporary challenges, to train the leaders and engineers of tomorrow within the ISMIN engineering program and the Specialized Master's in Microelectronic Circuit Design. Support Mines Saint-Étienne students in their integrated circuit design projects related to the Edu4Chip project. Establish new training programs on circuit design flows (potentially implementing open-source and open-silicon approaches to enable affordable access to integrated circuit manufacturing).

- Research: Conduct high-impact research in hardware security, recognized through scientific publications, and collaborate with the socio-economic world (industry, services, communities, etc.) for innovative and sustainable solutions. The expected skills focus on the SAS department's research themes related to integrated circuit design. Priority will be given to associating with work on embedded AI security, but any profile contributing to other research themes and strong skills of SAS will also be considered with great attention: hardware security design, processor design using the RISC-V instruction set, or fault injection.

- Innovation: Actively contribute to cross-disciplinary projects in a dynamic environment open to collaborations supported by public and private funds, in France and internationally.

Your ability to work in project mode and to bridge education, research, and practical application will be essential for success.

You hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in Microelectronics and possess:

• Scientific skills in microelectronics design and hardware security
• Proven experience in teaching (undergraduate or graduate level)
• Demonstrated expertise in scientific publication and research valorization
• Proficiency in English (C1 level) and ideally, international experience

Additional assets:

• Qualification by CNU sections 27 or 63 will be favorably considered
• Collaborations with industry and applied research
• Demonstrated engagement in scientific outreach activities

Additional Information

We support each of our collaborators on the path to excellence, with the conviction that together, we can have a lasting and significant impact on our world.

Joining Mines Saint-Étienne offers the opportunity to find:

• A stimulating environment: State-of-the-art experimental facilities, a welcoming work environment, and a strong international network (T.I.M.E., EULIST).
• Real impact: Contractual research projects amounting to €11M per year, predominantly with industrial partners.
• Unmatched quality of life: 49 days of leave and RTT, partial telecommuting, 75% coverage of public transportation costs, financial support for carpooling and cycling, and a social barometer where 83% of employees praise the quality of life at work.

Let's build a more sustainable future through science, engineering, and meaningful projects.

Eligibility criteria:

The application file should include:

• A curriculum vitae outlining teaching activities, research work, and where appropriate, relations with economic and industrial sectors (maximum 10 pages)
• An integration project at Mines Saint-Étienne on the desired missions.
• Recommendation letters, at the discretion of the candidate.
• A copy of the Doctorate diploma (or PhD).

Auditions will take place on May 27, 2025.

Selection process:

- Nature and duration of the contract: Permanent teaching and research position, CDI

- Positions offered in the recruitment are open to everyone, with adjustments available upon request for candidates with disabilities.

- Position open to civil holders and/or contractual persons.

- Any application may be subject to an administrative investigation.

- For MA profiles, in accordance with the specific status of teachers at the Institut Mines Télécom (decree n°2007-468 of March 28, 2007, modified), candidates must hold a Ph.D. or a recognized qualification at least equivalent to the required national diplomas. Furthermore, candidates must be nationals of an EU country on the date of their application (law 83-634 of July 13, 1983, on the rights and obligations of civil servants, Art. 5 and 5 bis). Candidates accepted through competitive examinations are appointed as assistant professor trainees. The training period is one year. Upon completion, trainees whose services have been satisfactory are granted tenure.

Jean-Max DUTERTRE - Head of the SAS department

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