Research Associate in AI for Software Engineering

About Us

Join a vibrant world-leading Software Systems research group at the Department of Informatics, King’s College London. We are an international, diverse, and inclusive group of about 40 researchers working on all aspects of software engineering with a particular strength in AI for software engineering, as well as software testing and quality assurance.    

About The Role

AI has emerged as a powerful tool assisting and transforming software engineering practices. The ITEA GENIUS project emerges as a collaborative initiative addressing challenges posed by manual-intensive processes and the untapped potential of Generative AI. In the GENIUS project, we aim to develop automated solutions and customized tools to enhance the different phases of the development life cycle, leveraging the advanced capabilities of Generative AI and Large Language Models. These innovative methods and tools will support software engineers with generated software artifacts such as requirements, code, and test cases, comprehensible documentation and guidelines tailored to company-specific data, offer software quality analysis and improvements, and provide recommendations with professional chat functionalities.

This post will particularly concern devising quality assurance and architectural assessment methods, including on sustainability and carbon footprint aspects, empowered by Generative AI. In collaboration with our partners, we plan to develop novel Generative-AI-driven methods and techniques that can assess functionality and architectural properties of large scale software. We plan to assess the sustainability of such methods and measure efficiency and carbon-footprint of the process and the products of our developed techniques.

The research will be carried out in an exciting international project involving many partners within an interdisciplinary team. More information about the GENIUS project can be found on its web page: https://itea4.org/project/genius.html . The researcher will join the vibrant and world-leading Software Systems (SSY) group at King’s College London.

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed-term contract until 31/07/2027.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience: 

Essential criteria

• Hold a PhD or about to obtain a PhD degree  in Computer Science, Software Engineer, or closely related fields  
• Have an established track record of producing high-quality research outputs  
• Demonstrate proficiency in the application of AI in software engineering and software quality assurance, testing, validation, and verification

Desirable criteria

• Familiarity with the application of Generative AI in software engineering
• Familiarity with sustainability and decarbonisation models and methods 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click the “Apply” button, above. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

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