Postdoctoral position in Software Engineering 1333 views

The Faculty of Health Science and Technology at Karlstad University has an opening for a full-time postdoctoral research fellow with focus on non-technical debt in large-scale agile software development. The position is available within the Software Quality and Digital Modernisation research group (SQUAD) research group.

About the position:

• The postdoctoral fellow will work in a new industry collaborated project – Non-Technical Debt in Large-Scale Agile Software Development (NODLA), funded by the Knowledge Foundation of Sweden.
• NODLA aim to investigate Non-Technical Debt (NTD) with the purpose of understanding causes leading to the accumulation of NTD, impacts of NTD, and mitigation strategies in the context of large-scale agile software development (ASD) from perspectives of professionals and researchers.

Requirements:

• Applicants are required to hold PhD degree, or a degree equivalent to the PhD degree. The degree must be in the area of Computer Science/Software Engineering, or correspondingly.
• Candidate must have completed the degree no more than three years before the last date for applications, unless special ground exists.
• Good communication skills verbally and excellent in writing.

Applications:

Apply online and the application should include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge and a list of your publications.
• Application letter with a brief description of academic interests and how it is related to the NODLA project (Maximum 2 pages long).
• Copy of the degree certificate(s) and transcripts of records from your previously attended university-level institutions. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents are not issued in one of these languages.
• Three representative publications. For longer documents, provide a summary (abstract) and a web link to the full text.
• A letter of recommendation.
• Contact information for two reference persons.