Are you motivated by mission‑driven research? Are you eager to design and analyze next‑generation autonomous, self‑healing systems? Are you excited to help shape one of the fastest‑growing and most transformative fields of our time? Are you interested in translating the vision of zero‑touch autonomous systems into tangible and actionable research goals, and willing to demonstrate and validate Zero‑touch systems in practice? If so, we would welcome the opportunity to assess your potential fit for this role, which forms part of a broader recruitment effort involving three assistant professor vacancies.
Job DescriptionThe Department of Mathematics and Computer Science is establishing a mission‑driven collaboration on research and technology challenges of Zero‑touch Systems. In this context, the department has three vacancies at the assistant professor level. The mission of this joint multidisciplinary research collaboration is to design, develop, verify and validate the self‑healing, autonomous systems of the future. This can only be achieved through close interaction of various disciplines to ensure resiliency, intelligence, adaptation, security and trust by design. The research is dedicated to the development of proven, integrated, and demonstrable solutions that advance autonomous systems to a level where their performance is rigorously always guaranteed and can be reliably trusted by humans.
The Zero‑touch Systems research is expected to have significant societal impact and requires collaborative multidisciplinary research to be successful. We expect successful candidates to develop this mission‑driven research program and create tangible societal impact through their research on, e.g.:
- Developing Agentic AI for enabling full autonomy of systems
- Developing "future‑proof" methods for software engineering for autonomous systems
- Developing new methods to guarantee the safety and reliability of zero‑touch systems
You will be evaluated on your achievements with respect to objectives and KPIs of the project and not only on traditional research metrics such as publications. You also play a leading role in building a community within and beyond the Department around the research questions and challenges of Zero‑touch Systems.
The Interconnected Resource‑aware Intelligent Systems (IRIS) cluster addresses current and future challenges of self‑adaptation and configuration of multi‑modal AI and its high environmental (energy and water) footprint. The Agentic AI is an essential area for enabling fully autonomous systems. It is envisioned that Agentic AI allows full perception of the system and the environment and decision making by the system. The current Agentic AI techniques, however, suffer from various shortcomings including low scalability, high time and resource/computation complexity, and low generalization capability.
This role is part of the IRIS cluster, with a focus on Agentic AI on making such systems data‑ and resource‑efficient as well as scalable. You will have the opportunity to address challenges in depth for autonomous systems, advancing the current boundaries of full autonomy and enabling efficient AI‑driven services for society.
We are especially looking for someone who can drive research breakthroughs in Agentic AI to ensure their learning, automatic adaptability, and responsible use and their wide adoption.
We expect you to develop and contribute to a mission‑driven research program of Zero‑touch Systems from the scientific breakthrough to societal impact. Most specifically, to:
- Design and develop "future‑proof" sustainable and scalable Agentic AI models.
- Enable/facilitate adoption/use cases of developed models.
- Contribute to national/university scientific roadmaps in sustainable AI.
- Facilitate schools nationally and worldwide to deploy our research‑based instruments.
- Highly motivated researcher, with a PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics with a strong publication record in the field of intelligent system design and engineering, software technology and verification, and outstanding research achievements and other indicators of international recognition.
- Strong achievements in terms of impact (beyond standard academic outreach such as publication in top venues). This requirement is especially in place because of the focus of the mission‑driven research and impact of this position.
- Preferably at least 2 years of academic work experience after obtaining PhD.
- Ability to conduct high quality academic research, reflected in demonstratable outputs.
- Motivated to teach, contribute to teaching processes, and to develop excellent teaching skills.
- Excellent team player and strong cooperation skills and ability to work in an interdisciplinary team, substantiated by tangible evidence.
- Effective communication and leadership skills, including coaching and mentoring of students and staff, leading a project or chairing a group.
- Excellent (written and verbal) proficiency in English.
A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station. In addition, we offer you:
- A year‑end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%.
- A dedicated mentoring program to help you get to know the university and the Dutch research environment.
- A Development Track with the prospect of becoming an Associate Professor. If you have a more senior profile, a tailor‑made career proposal will be considered.
- An excellent technical infrastructure, on‑campus children’s day care and sports facilities.
- Partially paid parental leave and an allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs.
Temporary employment with possibility of permanent employment.
#J-18808-Ljbffr€60000 - €80000 monthly