Assistant Professor Positions in Software Engineering University of Oulu Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

We, at the University of Oulu, work as part of the international science community to produce new scientific information and science-based solutions. We are committed to educate future pioneers to build a more sustainable, intelligent and humane world. Creating new, taking responsibility and succeeding together build strong foundation in all our actions. We offer a working environment where individuals can cultivate their skills, do meaningful work, and develop professionally. Our university's several specialized research and service units enable extensive and diverse development and career opportunities for experts in various fields. Digitalization is profoundly changing our society and the way people and businesses interact and operate. Digitalization is based on software. Software developers are in key role in creating our digital future. Join us in our mission to advance software engineering practice. To strengthen the software engineering research, the University of Oulu announces the following tenure track positions: Tenure Track Assistant Professor Positions (three) in Software Engineering The Tenure Track Assistant Professor positions will be based in the M3S (Empirical Software Engineering in Software, Systems and Services) research unit (http://www.oulu.fi/m3s) in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE, http://www.oulu.fi/itee/) at the University of Oulu, Finland. The Assistant Professor positions are in the field of software engineering at the University of Oulu focus area “Digital solutions in sensing and interactions ” https://www.oulu.fi/university/focusarea/digitalization-and-smart-society”. We see Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, 5G and other evolving communication technologies as the key drivers of digitalization. These key drivers are all heavily based on software. In this context, we anticipate future information infrastructures to consist of large numbers of connected wireless sensors and intelligent user interfaces embedded into the environment, resulting in intertwined real and virtual worlds. These developments challenge current software engineering practice due the increasing role of software in massive distributed heterogeneous systems. This call is for novel methods and tools for designing, implementing and managing intelligent software, systems and services. Special attention is required to empirical validation of these methods and tools in realistic use in order to guarantee the impact of research contributions. The M3S research unit and the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering offer excellent cooperation opportunities with world-class research units on software engineering, sensing, embedded technologies, wireless communications, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, data-intensive services, and human- machine interaction. Moreover, M3S and the faculty have a long tradition in generating research impact through close collaboration with companies. There are hundreds of ICT companies in the Oulu Region, including numerous university spin-offs. The M3S research unit has a long tradition in industrial and international collaboration and has actively participated in large European research projects since the 1990s. Over 30% of the research unit comprises of international members. Members of the research unit have published their research in leading software engineering journals and conferences, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software, Empirical Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, Journal of Systems and Software, and the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Successful applicants will carry out their research and education in software engineering while focusing on one or more of the following: - Empirical software engineering - AI and ML in software engineering - Behavioral and Human Factors in software engineering - Software and systems development methods, processes and tools - Agile and Lean software development - Requirements engineering - Software and systems architectures - Software and systems testing, quality, safety, security, privacy and trust - Software evolution and maintenance - Novel software-based solutions in AI, IoT, 6G and data analytics - Automotive software engineering - e-Health systems and services - Enterprise systems The tenure track positions are open to highly talented researchers who hold a doctoral degree and have an excellent potential for an outstanding scientific career, and master one or more of the above-mentioned research topics. The positions will start as tenure track from September 1, 2021, or later according to mutual agreement with the successful applicant. The successful researchers appointed to a tenure track position may advance in their career through the tenure track process. Job Responsibilities A person at any level of the academic tenure track system is expected to conduct outstanding world-class scientific research, to be competitive in attracting external funding, to publish in leading journals, to supervise doctoral students, to be an active member of the international scientific community, to create and teach related BSc and MSc level courses, and to exhibit academic leadership. The position of an Assistant Professor is initially a fixed-term position for five years. Career advancement in the tenure track system is based on assessments of the candidate’s performance and merits. The advancement assistant professor is described in the University of Oulu Tenure Track guidelines: http://www.oulu.fi/university/node/38379. Being granted continuation for the position requires meeting the below-mentioned criteria as well as successful research work as indicated in the University of Oulu Tenure Track guidelines. Required Qualifications at Assistant Professor Level of the Tenure Track: Required qualifications and career advancement at each level of the tenure track: Career advancement on the tenure track is based on performance assessments that measure the candidate’s merits. When appointing a person to the position of an assistant professor the applicants are evaluated based on the following criteria: • The applicant has a doctoral degree in a relevant field and has research potential (publications, especially internationally refereed publications; participation in acquiring funding / funding granted); • Only doctors who have finished their doctoral degree less than ten years ago can be appointed to the position of an assistant professor; • The applicant is expected to have international collaboration record, ideally working in more than one research facility during one’s career (in most fields represented at the University of Oulu this signifies working abroad, in a different research institute or university, faculty or industry); • Experience in teaching and supervision of students. What we offer • You will become a part of a highly talented research group, working on strategically and globally significant research area • You will receive support not only from your team and supervisor, but also from university´s wide variety of support services, so that you can excel in your research • In addition to modern research facilities, we offer you personnel benefits such as affordable sport services and salary payments for 12 months / year • The salary of the appointed researcher will be based on the levels 5-6 of the demand level chart for the teaching and research staff of Finnish Universities. In addition to the basic salary of the appropriate tenure track level, supplementary salary will be given for personal achievement and performance, the sum rising to a maximum of 50 % of the basic salary level for the post. The salary range is roughly 3500–5000 €/month for an assistant professor. A trial period of six months is applied in the position • Other benefits: The successful candidate will receive full benefits provided by the University of Oulu to university employees, including free time corresponding to holidays and free occupational health care services. The successful candidate will receive also benefits provided by the Finnish government to residents, for example possibility to obtain access to the national healthcare system, tax benefits for employees with children and high-quality affordable childcare services. Applications Applications, together with all relevant enclosures, should be submitted using the electronic application form by 15th of April, 2021 at 23:59 (Finnish local time). The application should be written in English and the following information needs to be included: 1) an application letter with contact information 2) a curriculum vitae following the guidelines of the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity (tutkimuseettinen neuvottelukunta). The guidelines are available at http://www.tenk.fi/en/template-researchers-curriculum-vitae and a template at http://www.tenk.fi/sites/tenk.fi/files/CV_english_270613.pdf. 3) complete list of publications, ten most important ones marked 4) a brief account of research merits (max 1 page) 5) a brief account of teaching merits or a teaching portfolio (max 2 pages) 6) acquisition of research funds 7) applicant’s vision how to renovate this field of science and a brief research and action plan (max 4 pages) 8) contact details of 2–4 persons available for recommendation. Evaluators: The selection procedure will be carried out by an Appointment Committee according to the University of Oulu Tenure Track guidelines. Contact details: In order to receive the information and announcements concerning the official selection procedures to be followed in order to fill this post, applicants must inform of their contact details for the whole duration of the selection process: they must specifically provide both their home and work telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and postal addresses. For further information and enquiries about this post, and about the application and selection procedures, please contact: Professor Markku Oivo phone: +358 40 822 7702 email: markku.oivo@oulu.fi About Oulu, Finland Finland is full of comfortable and little towns and cities like Oulu. Oulu is probably the best place to live in Finland. We have wonderful nature, a safe environment and clean tap water, highly educated people, vivid cultural life and friendly easy-going atmosphere. Around the World, Finland is known as one of the best places to live is as the World Happiness Report again confirmed in 2020. However, Finland is not only the happiest but also one of safest societies and most equal societies due to its modern welfare system. Finland has a unique combination of accommodating high-tech cities and cozy rural towns where traffic jams rarely occur, and biking is a safe means of transportation in all four seasons. The city of Oulu by the sea has excellent schools, a vivid cultural life, clean nature and an easy-going atmosphere attracting leading experts, students and families with children. Oulu is also known as a high technology hub, “The home of 5G”. More about Oulu: https://visitoulu.fi/en/ If you apply for this position please say you saw it on Computeroxy Apply

We, at the University of Oulu, work as part of the international science community to produce new scientific information and science-based solutions. We are committed to educate future pioneers to build a more sustainable, intelligent and humane world. Creating new, taking responsibility and succeeding together build strong foundation in all our actions. We offer a working environment where individuals can cultivate their skills, do meaningful work, and develop professionally. Our university's several specialized research and service units enable extensive and diverse development and career opportunities for experts in various fields.

Digitalization is profoundly changing our society and the way people and businesses interact and operate. Digitalization is based on software. Software developers are in key role in creating our digital future. Join us in our mission to advance software engineering practice.

To strengthen the software engineering research, the University of Oulu announces the following tenure track positions:

Tenure Track Assistant Professor Positions (three) in Software Engineering

The Tenure Track Assistant Professor positions will be based in the M3S (Empirical Software Engineering in Software, Systems and Services) research unit (http://www.oulu.fi/m3s) in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE, http://www.oulu.fi/itee/) at the University of Oulu, Finland.

The Assistant Professor positions are in the field of software engineering at the University of Oulu focus area “Digital solutions in sensing and interactions ” https://www.oulu.fi/university/focusarea/digitalization-and-smart-society”. We see Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, 5G and other evolving communication technologies as the key drivers of digitalization. These key drivers are all heavily based on software. In this context, we anticipate future information infrastructures to consist of large numbers of connected wireless sensors and intelligent user interfaces embedded into the environment, resulting in intertwined real and virtual worlds. These developments challenge current software engineering practice due the increasing role of software in massive distributed heterogeneous systems. This call is for novel methods and tools for designing, implementing and managing intelligent software, systems and services. Special attention is required to empirical validation of these methods and tools in realistic use in order to guarantee the impact of research contributions.

The M3S research unit and the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering offer excellent cooperation opportunities with world-class research units on software engineering, sensing, embedded technologies, wireless communications, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, data-intensive services, and human- machine interaction. Moreover, M3S and the faculty have a long tradition in generating research impact through close collaboration with companies. There are hundreds of ICT companies in the Oulu Region, including numerous university spin-offs.

The M3S research unit has a long tradition in industrial and international collaboration and has actively participated in large European research projects since the 1990s. Over 30% of the research unit comprises of international members. Members of the research unit have published their research in leading software engineering journals and conferences, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software, Empirical Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, Journal of Systems and Software, and the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).

Successful applicants will carry out their research and education in software engineering while focusing on one or more of the following:

- Empirical software engineering

- AI and ML in software engineering

- Behavioral and Human Factors in software engineering

- Software and systems development methods, processes and tools

- Agile and Lean software development

- Requirements engineering

- Software and systems architectures

- Software and systems testing, quality, safety, security, privacy and trust

- Software evolution and maintenance

- Novel software-based solutions in AI, IoT, 6G and data analytics

- Automotive software engineering

- e-Health systems and services

- Enterprise systems

The tenure track positions are open to highly talented researchers who hold a doctoral degree and have an excellent potential for an outstanding scientific career, and master one or more of the above-mentioned research topics.

The positions will start as tenure track from September 1, 2021, or later according to mutual agreement with the successful applicant. The successful researchers appointed to a tenure track position may advance in their career through the tenure track process.

Job Responsibilities

A person at any level of the academic tenure track system is expected to conduct outstanding world-class scientific research, to be competitive in attracting external funding, to publish in leading journals, to supervise doctoral students, to be an active member of the international scientific community, to create and teach related BSc and MSc level courses, and to exhibit academic leadership.

The position of an Assistant Professor is initially a fixed-term position for five years. Career advancement in the tenure track system is based on assessments of the candidate’s performance and merits. The advancement assistant professor is described in the University of Oulu Tenure Track guidelines: http://www.oulu.fi/university/node/38379.

Being granted continuation for the position requires meeting the below-mentioned criteria as well as successful research work as indicated in the University of Oulu Tenure Track guidelines.

Required Qualifications at Assistant Professor Level of the Tenure Track:

Required qualifications and career advancement at each level of the tenure track: Career advancement on the tenure track is based on performance assessments that measure the candidate’s merits. When appointing a person to the position of an assistant professor the applicants are evaluated based on the following criteria:

• The applicant has a doctoral degree in a relevant field and has research potential (publications, especially internationally refereed publications; participation in acquiring funding / funding granted);

• Only doctors who have finished their doctoral degree less than ten years ago can be appointed to the position of an assistant professor;

• The applicant is expected to have international collaboration record, ideally working in more than one research facility during one’s career (in most fields represented at the University of Oulu this signifies working abroad, in a different research institute or university, faculty or industry);

• Experience in teaching and supervision of students.

What we offer

• You will become a part of a highly talented research group, working on strategically and globally significant research area

• You will receive support not only from your team and supervisor, but also from university´s wide variety of support services, so that you can excel in your research

• In addition to modern research facilities, we offer you personnel benefits such as affordable sport services and salary payments for 12 months / year

• The salary of the appointed researcher will be based on the levels 5-6 of the demand level chart for the teaching and research staff of Finnish Universities. In addition to the basic salary of the appropriate tenure track level, supplementary salary will be given for personal achievement and performance, the sum rising to a maximum of 50 % of the basic salary level for the post. The salary range is roughly 3500–5000 €/month for an assistant professor. A trial period of six months is applied in the position

• Other benefits: The successful candidate will receive full benefits provided by the University of Oulu to university employees, including free time corresponding to holidays and free occupational health care services. The successful candidate will receive also benefits provided by the Finnish government to residents, for example possibility to obtain access to the national healthcare system, tax benefits for employees with children and high-quality affordable childcare services.

Applications

Applications, together with all relevant enclosures, should be submitted using the electronic application form by 15th of April, 2021 at 23:59 (Finnish local time).

The application should be written in English and the following information needs to be included:

1) an application letter with contact information
2) a curriculum vitae following the guidelines of the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity (tutkimuseettinen neuvottelukunta). The guidelines are available at http://www.tenk.fi/en/template-researchers-curriculum-vitae and a template at http://www.tenk.fi/sites/tenk.fi/files/CV_english_270613.pdf.
3) complete list of publications, ten most important ones marked
4) a brief account of research merits (max 1 page)
5) a brief account of teaching merits or a teaching portfolio (max 2 pages)
6) acquisition of research funds
7) applicant’s vision how to renovate this field of science and a brief research and action plan (max 4 pages)
8) contact details of 2–4 persons available for recommendation.

Evaluators: The selection procedure will be carried out by an Appointment Committee according to the University of Oulu Tenure Track guidelines.

Contact details: In order to receive the information and announcements concerning the official selection procedures to be followed in order to fill this post, applicants must inform of their contact details for the whole duration of the selection process: they must specifically provide both their home and work telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and postal addresses.

For further information and enquiries about this post, and about the application and selection procedures, please contact:

Professor Markku Oivo
phone: +358 40 822 7702
email: markku.oivo@oulu.fi

About Oulu, Finland

Finland is full of comfortable and little towns and cities like Oulu. Oulu is probably the best place to live in Finland. We have wonderful nature, a safe environment and clean tap water, highly educated people, vivid cultural life and friendly easy-going atmosphere. Around the World, Finland is known as one of the best places to live is as the World Happiness Report again confirmed in 2020. However, Finland is not only the happiest but also one of safest societies and most equal societies due to its modern welfare system. Finland has a unique combination of accommodating high-tech cities and cozy rural towns where traffic jams rarely occur, and biking is a safe means of transportation in all four seasons. The city of Oulu by the sea has excellent schools, a vivid cultural life, clean nature and an easy-going atmosphere attracting leading experts, students and families with children. Oulu is also known as a high technology hub, “The home of 5G”.
More about Oulu: https://visitoulu.fi/en/

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