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TU Wien is Austria’s largest institution of research and higher education in the fields of technology and natural sciences. With over 26,000 students and more than 4000 scientists, research, teaching, and learning dedicated to the advancement of science and technology have been conducted here for more than 200 years, guided by the motto “Technology for People”. As a driver of innovation, TU Wien fosters close collaboration with business and industry and contributes to the prosperity of society.

The Faculty of Informatics, one of the eight faculties at TU Wien, plays an active role in national and international research and has an excellent reputation. The main areas of research include Computer Engineering, Logic and Computation, AI and Data Science, Cybersecurity, Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology, as well as Information Systems Engineering.

The TU Wien Faculty of Informatics seeks to fill the open tenure-track position of an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering. The position is affiliated with the Institute of Information Systems Engineering, Research Unit Software Engineering. The estimated starting date is March 2027. The work contract is initially limited to six years. The candidate and TU Wien can agree upon a tenure evaluation, which when positive, opens the possibility to change the position to Associate Professor with an unlimited contract.

Position

Software-intensive systems are central to modern society and the foundation of nearly all digital infrastructures. Their increasing scale, interconnectedness, and complexity pose significant scientific and engineering challenges related to their development, evolution, quality, and trustworthiness.

The new tenure-track position strengthens TU Wien’s strategic focus on software engineering and its role in shaping technological landscapes and thus societies. The faculty aims to attract an excellent, internationally visible researcher with innovative ideas on advancing the foundations, methods, and tools for engineering reliable and trustworthy complex software systems in times of Agentic AI and beyond. The position will closely interact with ongoing initiatives in artificial intelligence, systems engineering, and human-centered technology across the university.

The research directions of the successful candidate should cover some of the following topics, but are not limited to them:

• Software engineering with and for Artificial Intelligence, data-intensive, and machine-learning-based systems, including AI-assisted development, automation, debugging, and repair, as well as the engineering of trustworthy AI-enabled software
• Software testing, quality assurance, analysis, and evolution
• Empirical and data-driven software engineering, including large-scale data analysis and mining software repositories
• Secure, reliable, and responsible software engineering, addressing compliance, sustainability, robustness, and societal impact
• Human-centered aspects of software engineering, including developer experience, collaboration, and socio-technical processes
• Software architecture, design, and lifecycle management, including architectural principles, patterns, quality attributes, and the evolution of large software systems
• Software engineering for emerging computing paradigms, such as cyber-physical systems, and quantum software engineering

Research Tasks:

• Conduct internationally competitive research in software engineering
• Engage in research collaborations within TU Wien and with academic and industrial partners
• Develop and lead research projects and acquire third-party funding
• Contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives at the Faculty of Informatics

Teaching Tasks:

• To teach in the Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral curricula in computer science, business informatics, and computer engineering. In particular, a compulsory undergraduate course on Web Engineering has to be taken over and further developed
• Teaching in the Bachelor’s curriculum requires proficiency in German; corresponding requirements may be part of the qualification agreement
• Participating in the supervision of Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral theses

Besides research and teaching, the duties of an Assistant Professor at TU Wien include contributing to academic self-governance and faculty service tasks.

Application

For additional details and to enter the application process, please see the TU Wien Job Platform:

• jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/266797

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