"LECTURER.2.01"

Organization Name: School of Electrical & Information Engineering

Department Description

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment 

School of Electrical and Information Engineering 

Lecturer (Biomedical Engineering) 

(Three-year fixed-term, fractional appointment)

The School of Electrical and Information Engineering invites applications for a Lecturer position in Biomedical Engineering on a three-year fixed-term basis, at a fractional full-time equivalent (FTE) negotiable between 40% and 80% FTE.

This appointment is academically developmental and is specifically intended for a suitably experienced industry professional seeking to transition into academia while maintaining strong engagement with industry. The role requires the successful applicant to make a substantial contribution to industry-relevant research development and commercialization, laboratory accreditation, and programme design in Biomedical Engineering, while formally progressing towards a PhD on a part-time basis, which is a condition of appointment, within the School of Electrical and Information Engineering.

Brief Description

Qualifications and requirements:

The successful candidate must hold a professional degree in Electrical Engineering or Information Engineering, together with a formal qualification in Biomedical Engineering, and a Master’s qualification that renders the candidate immediately eligible for admission to a PhD programme. Applicants must demonstrate a clear intention to complete a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and to pursue sustained research activity in the field. 

A minimum of ten (10) years’ relevant industry experience is required, including substantive exposure to Biomedical Engineering and evidence of ongoing industry involvement in an engineering-related discipline. The candidate must demonstrate strong engineering competence, including but not limited to coding, software architecture, machine learning, and data-driven methodologies. Experience in regulatory processes, compliance, and clinical evaluation within the biomedical engineering domain is required, together with proven team leadership and project management skills.

Duties:

The successful applicant will be required to:

• Interface with industry and university-related units such as Wits Innovation Centre, with a view to commercial exploitation of biomedical engineering developments within the school.

• Accreditation of the Biomedical Engineering research laboratories.

• Contribute towards the research output of the School (peer reviewed publications in DHET- approved journals) which in this position would primarily relate to the pursuit of a PhD on a part-time basis.

• Develop an academic program leading to an ECSA-accredited 4-year Biomedical Engineering degree.

• Formalisation of the Biomedical Engineering Research Group.

Subject to workload management, additional duties may be assigned from time to time including the following, as and when required by the school:

• Biomedical engineering laboratory management;

• Teaching courses such as Biomedical Measurement, Instrumentation and Imaging and Biomedical Signals, Systems and Control.

• Undertaking various administrative and teaching duties in the School;

• Conceptualising and supervising the capstone investigation and design projects of final year

undergraduate engineering students;

• Supervising postgraduate students in the School.

Detailed Description

Job Requirements

Additional Details

How To Apply

Enquiries: Further information may be obtained from Professor Cuthbert Nyamupangedengu,

Head of School, Electrical & Information Engineering

Telephone: +27 11 717 7230; e-mail: cuthbert.nyamupangedengu@wits.ac.za

To apply: All applications must be submitted via the University’s online application system. External applicants are invited to apply by registering their profiles on the Wits i-recruitment platform located at https://irec.wits.ac.za. Internal employees should apply by following the Oracle link ‘iWits / Wits Employee Self Service / Apply Now’ on: https://iwits.wits.ac.za. The application must include (i) a cover letter, (ii) a detailed CV with names, current e-mail addresses and contact numbers of three referees, and (iii) copies of qualifications and identity documents. 

Note: Applications that are incomplete and that do not meet job requirements will not be considered.

Closing date: 02 March 2026

By applying for this post the Applicant acknowledges that their personal information will be processed by the University. The Applicant, by their conduct in proceeding with an application for this position, gives their consent to the processing of their personal information as required by the University’s Recruitment, Selection and Appointment Policy. Such processing includes logging their information on the University’s recruitment systems, conducting necessary background and reference checks including disciplinary and/or criminal records, and disclosing their personal information to university employees identified to take part in the selection and recruitment process. The Applicant consents to any processing of their personal information as may be required. The confidentiality of the Applicant's personal information will be maintained.

The University is committed to employment equity. Preference may be given to appointable applicants from the underrepresented designated groups in terms of the relevant employment equity plans and policies of the University. The University retains the right not to make an appointment and to verify all information provided by candidates.

Please note that correspondence will only be entered into with shortlisted candidates. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment or to re-advertise.