Associate Professor or DTU Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Software/Systems Development or Software Engineering

Do you want to contribute to the digital transition with Software and/or Systems Development through education and collaboration with industry and academia? 

DTU Engineering Technology invites applicants with and industrial background for a position as assistant/associate professor in software engineering and -development.

You will join the research group “AI, Mathematics and Software”, which consists of several colleagues with a mix of research and industry experience in software development, IT infrastructure, healthcare technology, and medical devices. The group is diverse in culture, nationalities, personality types and career paths from industry and academia. We enjoy collegial idea generation, feedback, and cooperation in an informal, safe, and fun working environment. We value our diversity in the daily work, where our collaboration benefits from academic, industrial and educational perspectives on the digital transition in education, industry collaboration, and research projects where we focus on implementation of the digital technologies.

Responsibilities and qualifications 

Your contribution will be within software development with an emphasis on teaching in one or several of the following areas:

• Front-end development and user experience design
• Mobile application development
• Development methods such as Agile development and DevOps
• Back-end development
• Software architecture
• Embedded systems
• Project management of software projects

In this position, you will have the opportunity to develop your professional skills within the above areas, as well as other relevant areas. The position’s primary responsibility will be to teach and supervise student projects, but you will also be contributing to the group’s research projects and the research agenda with your industrial perspectives.

Our research is focused on implementation of digital technologies with key application within healthcare, optimal use of energy and resources, maintenance planning, and optimization, with respect to securing digital systems and communications.

You must be responsible for the teaching of courses. DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both.

As formal qualifications you must hold an MSc or a PhD degree (or equivalent) in engineering, science or equivalent and three years of industrial experience. If you are applying for the associate professor position you should also have academic qualifications equivalent to those obtained by holding an assistant professorship and documented didactic/pedagogic training.

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Experience and quality of teaching 
• Research experience 
• Research vision and potential
• International impact and experience 
• Societal impact
• Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry
• Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills
• Communication skills

Further information 

Further information may be obtained from associate professor, group leader, Henrik Bechmann, hebec@dtu.dk, or Head of Department Malene Kirstine Holst, malho@dtu.dk.

You can read more about the department at https://engtech.dtu.dk.

If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark.

Application procedure

Please submit your online application no later than 24 October 2023 (23:59 Danish time).

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