Student Assistant: Future Data Infrastructure of Smart Grids 10%-30%, Zurich, fixed-term 29.09.2026 | Power Systems Lab

This is a Student Assistant position focused on developing a high-performance data infrastructure for smart grids. Key responsibilities include infrastructure development, enhancing communication pipelines, working with time-series databases, implementing reliability strategies, and front-end development for visualization dashboards. Applicants must be enrolled in a relevant ETH degree program and have strong expertise in Git, Python, and Linux development environments.

• The future smart grid features the widespread integration of distributed energy resources, introducing new challenges to infrastructure in areas such as automatic control, data management, and communication.
• In this role, you will design and develop data infrastructure to tackle real-world challenges in smart grid research, ensuring our infrastructure meets requirements in the future—such as scalability under load, resilience to failure, and adaptability to change.
• Infrastructure Development: Work in containerd environments, ensure the security, availability, scalability and accountability of our server.
• Communication Pipeline: Enhance and extend data and command transmission intrastructure between ETH, utilities, and energy management systems—ensuring they’re reliable (think “backpressure handling” and “exactly-once” semantics) and maintainable.
• Front-end Development: Build visualization dashboards (Grafana) and remote experimentation APIs to give researchers live insight into grid behavior and improve user experiences on our platform.
• You are passionate about data engineering, systems development, and energy-related topics.
• You have strong expertise in Git, Python, and Linux development environments.
• Ideally, you have worked with one or some of the following fields: RabbitMQ, Grafana, SQL, Docker, and front-end development.
• Working alongside leading academics, industry partners, and a collaborative research community. Rare chance to see theory play out on a real part of our critical infrastructure.

• Flexible working conditions, state-of-the-art facilities, and remuneration according to ETH student assistant salary guidelines Stundenlohn – Staffnet | ETH Zürich .