Tenure Track Assistant Professor for the Centre for Software Technology at SDU Vejle

<p>Centre for Software Technologies (CST), part of Mærsk-McKinney Møller Instituttet, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), invites applications for one or more 4-year tenure track assistant professor positions within Software Engineering. The positions are open from Spring 2026, and the specific start date will be agreed with the successful candidates. </p> <p>SDU’s new campus in Vejle is set to become a world-class IT research and educational environment. The campus will consist of two research centres aiming to be world-class research environments in interactive technology, software engineering, computer science, and artificial intelligence. SDU Vejle is a collaboration between the renowned Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at SDU, the new campus will be based on the philosophy of these well-established research environments where curiosity, creativity and innovation thrive. SDU Vejle will welcome its first students in 2026. By 2032, we aim for the Vejle campus to host over 1200 Danish and international students, employ more than 90 academic staff members, and annually graduate 300 skilled and sought-after IT students.</p> <p>Learn more about the new campus in Vejle <a href="https://www.sdu.dk/en/vejle" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p><strong>SDU Centre for Software Technology</strong></p> <p>The aim of the centre is to cover research and education in interactive technology, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. Furthermore, we see these areas complementing each other to make way for the engineering of the next generation of reliable, intelligent and interactive software solutions. This includes understanding how AI technologies and data-informed software development with a human-centred perspective can change the engineering of products and software infrastructures.</p> <p>The vision of the centre is to:</p> <ul> <li>Create world class breakthroughs and knowledge within the centre’s academic focus</li> <li>Educate highly sought after engineers within the centre’s academic focus</li> <li>Establish valuable collaborations with local, national, and international industry</li> </ul> <p>The mission of the centre is to:</p> <ul> <li>Educate talented and highly competent engineers that not only meet the needs of industry but also enrich and enhance society.</li> <li>Provide access for the communities surrounding the centre to the newest and most. advanced knowledge and technologies available globally within the centre’s academic focus.</li> <li>Closely collaborate with industry on innovation, research, development, testing and deployment of new software and hardware-based technologies.</li> <li>Contribute to a human-centred digital transition, focusing on integrating digital and intelligent technologies into life and work while prioritizing the needs, experiences, and well-being of people.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we offer</strong> </p> <p>With a tenure-track assistant professor position in the SDU Centre for Software Technology you will be a part of the team that will build up the centre. In this position, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Be a part of a dynamic research centre while working in areas of tremendous potential and societal relevance.</li> <li>Be a part of the team of SDU’s new Vejle campus, to build up the research and educational environment of the new campus.</li> <li>Be part of multidisciplinary research in the centre </li> <li>Join collaborations with the wider university, national and international research partners as well as industrial partners.</li> <li>Contribute to the new teaching programmes at the highest level for undergraduate and postgraduate students at SDU Vejle.</li> <li>Join a harmonious workplace environment that is conducive to productivity, promotes creativity, and rewards and recognizes individuals and group achievement.</li> <li>Be part of a centre with both a national and international profile</li> <li>Create and join innovation projects in close collaboration with industry and the local society.</li> <li>The opportunity to live and work in one of the happiest countries in the world that also offers excellent and free health and education systems.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we expect</strong> </p> <ul> <li>You have a PhD degree in an area related to Interactive Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, or Software Engineering.</li> <li>You have a promising record of research impact.</li> <li>You are an enthusiastic and highly motivated teacher and supervisor. </li> <li>You are an excellent collaborator, able to work in complex international multi-stakeholder environments.</li> <li>You are an effective and inspiring communicator end attentive listener.</li> <li>Talent, experience, and success with industrial cooperation is a plus.</li> </ul> <p>Examples of subtopics within interactive technology and software engineering of particular relevance to the Centre include: Interactive User Interface Technologies (e.g. Mobi