Postdoctoral position in Software Engineering

The Computer Science and Engineering department is strongly international, with approximately 90 faculty and 70 PhD students from 30 countries. The department is a fully integrated department with University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology as principals. There is extensive national and international collaboration with academia and industry all around the world. The position is placed in the Software Engineering (SE) Division at the department, with Chalmers as the employer. See http://www.chalmers.se/cse/EN for an overview of the department.

Information about the division
Software Engineering is a strategic area at the department and activities in the field are envisaged to grow further. To this end, the Software Engineering division was founded in 2010 by University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology in a joint venture. Within the SE division, research ranges from software architecture, requirements, process improvement and change management, human factors, model-driven software development, agile processes, to verification and validation. In 2011, the Software Center was established in close collaboration with industrial partners, which presents excellent opportunities to conduct research with industry. The division actively collaborates with industrial partners, particularly, from the automotive and telecommunications domain in national and international research projects.

Subject area
The focus of the research project is cooperative self-driving vehicles. In strong collaboration with several research groups at Chalmers, the joint goal for the team is develop a self-driving driving vehicle that is able to handle complex inner-city traffic scenarios.

Major responsibilities
The holder of this position will work and participate in research projects with national and international industrial and academic partners in the area of self-driving cars. The research will be conducted in the domain of self-driving vehicles, where typically a real-time capable, data stream-based architecture for perception, interpretation, and acting is present. The realization and maintenance of such a software and system architecture is an evolutionary process. Thus, the research shall focus on continuous updates to the three aforementioned components and its enabling architecture with the goal of developing a suitable prototype of a system architecture.

Position summary
Full-time temporary employment. The position is a Postdoc position with 80 % research and 20 % teaching for 2 years.

Qualifications
To qualify for the position of postdoc, you must have a doctoral degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent; the degree should generally not be older than three years. You are expected to be somewhat accustomed to teaching, and to demonstrate good potential within research and education.

Excellent analytical and communication skills, orally as well as written, ability to work independently and intrinsic motivation are needed. Proficiency in English (orally and literally) is required. Qualifications in model-driven software engineering, automotive or embedded software development, cyber-physical systems, software architecture, C++, and Linux are beneficial.

Chalmers continuously strives to be an attractive employer. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Application deadline: January 31, 2015

For questions, please contact:
Christian Berger, CSE, [email protected], +46 31-772 6038

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