University trainee (yliopistoharjoittelija)

Faculty of Technology, Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering

The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.

We are now looking for

University trainee (yliopistoharjoittelija)

for a fixed term, 2-month position.

We are offering a university trainee position to a software engineering and AI master's student to conduct their advanced practical training in the "Serious games for sustainable energy: Digital solutions to empower citizens to contribute to a just transition" - project, funded by the 6GESS New Research Initiative. This project is realized in collaboration of the Faculty of Technology (FTech), Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit (WE3) and the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE), the Empirical Software Engineering in Software, Systems, and Services (M3S) unit.

You will mainly work in the M3S unit. The M3S research unit is focusing on the fundamental areas of Software Engineering Methods and Processes. Research covers the entire professional software lifecycle, including technical and human aspects. Our work utilizes and develops cutting-edge technologies such as IoT, 5G/6G, AI and digital twins.

The project aims at developing a digital solution for demand-side managementthat empowers residential consumers to participate in the energy transition. The idea is to conceptualize a mobile app that will give the user personalized suggestions of how to adjust their electricity consumption to reduce their environmental impacts. The app will access 24-h predictions of electricity's carbon intensity, as well as domest