"Professor (m/f/d) (Open Rank: W3 or W2 with Tenure-Track to W3) of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence"

Professor (m/f/d) (Open Rank: W3 or W2 with Tenure-Track to W3) of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Your tasks:

You will represent the field of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence in research and teaching. You will play an important role in building up the CSAI department, including through your involvement in degree program planning. You will collaborate with outstanding international researchers in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. In addition, you will participate in (interdisciplinary) third-party funding applications and supervise graduation theses and doctoral dissertations.

Your profile:

These positions are intended both for early career researchers who show great potential for scientific development and for established researchers with a proven track record of scientific excellence.

You have excellent academic qualifications for the respective career level in the field of software engineering, programming languages or system development in conjunction with artificial intelligence, with expertise in relevant subject areas, including but not limited to:

• AI in software engineering
• Automated program generation and optimization
• Verification, testing and security of software systems
• Explainability of AI and of software engineering
• Software for distributed, highly-parallel AI systems
• Intelligent development environments

For a W2 tenure-track position, you must demonstrate academic excellence... [full profile details as in text]

Our offer:

The University of Technology Nuremberg is rethinking the university on all levels... [offer details]

Interested?

Please refer to the reference number PF-2025-08 in your application. Please apply by 16th January 2026 in English and with all relevant application documents:

• letter of motivation
• CV including externally funded projects and awards
• list of publications
• research statement
• teaching statement (with reference to our innovative teaching and learning concept)
• relevant university diplomas (e.g., degree certificates)
• doctoral certificate (if applicable)
• three publications most relevant to your research profile

exclusively via our application portal. Please observe our guidelines for the preparation of the teaching statement, which can be found under the following links:

• Word
• PDF

Questions?

If you have any administrative questions please contact the Appointments Team, appointments@utn.de.
If you have questions regarding the profile of the position, contact the Vice-Founding Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence, Prof. Dr. Andreas Kipf, Andreas.Kipf@utn.de.