The University is investing heavily in sustainable industrial production through several new European and national initiatives. We are now looking for one or two senior lecturers to join our research group in cyber-physical systems.

As a senior lecturer with us, you will be a key person in shaping the cyber-physical systems of the future. Through research, teaching and active collaboration with partners at the forefront, you will have the opportunity to influence the development of technologies that are crucial for a sustainable and resilient society. You will be part of a growing and dynamic environment where interdisciplinarity, innovation and practical application are at the center. You will create, challenge and build knowledge that contributes to the next generation of intelligent and efficient systems, while developing your own academic profile in a rapidly growing field.

Description

Cyberphysical Systems focuses on integrated software and application architectures with implementations of highly distributed embedded systems that interact with each other and their environment to enable secure, goal-driven, autonomous and evolvable solutions.

Duties

A Senior Lecturer will be involved in teaching, educational development and research at the University. Senior lecturers should also follow international developments in the subject area and supervise doctoral students. Senior lecturers are expected to contribute to the development of the university, work to obtain external funding for the subject and be able to take on management and administrative tasks.

The duties also include leading research projects, communicating research results through scientific publications and being active in the scientific community within their own subject area.

Senior lecturers are also expected to collaborate with other researchers and with industrial partners. The position provides the opportunity to develop independence as a researcher and to qualify for future teaching positions with higher qualification requirements.

Eligibility

Eligible for employment as a senior lecturer is someone who:

• Has a doctoral degree or equivalent scientific competence or has some other professional skill that is of importance with regard to the position
• Has demonstrated pedagogical skills through reflective experience, teaching skills and teaching development.
• Completed higher education pedagogical training equivalent to 7.5 credits or otherwise acquired equivalent knowledge

Assessment criteria

The following assessment criteria are applied to the position:

• Scientific skills
• Pedagogical skills

Other assessment criteria (equally weighted):

• Ability to interact with the surrounding society, demonstrated by participation in research and collaboration projects with industrial partners in Sweden and Europe.
• Administrative and organizational skills relevant to the tasks, demonstrated through the management of work packages in Swedish and European projects and through the coordination of project deliveries.
• Ability to teach in Swedish and/or English, demonstrated through experience of teaching at bachelor's and/or master's level in computer science and engineering.
• Scientific competence in one or more of the following areas (demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications or preprints):
  • Applied machine learning (ML) for industrial environments, such as semi-autonomous robots, and development of simulation or test environments for training ML models.
  • Cyber-physical systems (CPS) focusing on distributed coordination, state synchronization and safety-critical operation.
  • Industrial data ecosystems focusing on scalable data architectures, semantic interoperability and governance mechanisms for secure data sharing.
  • Security in cloud-native systems with a focus on access control.

Information

The position is for one to two positions, is permanent and located in Luleå. Access according to agreement.

For further information, please contact, Professor ämnesföreträdare Ulf Bodin, +46 (0)920-493036, mailto:ulf.bodin@ltu.se.

SACO-S Diana Chroneer, (+46)920-49 2037 mailto:diana.chroneer@ltu.se and OFR-S Marika Vesterberg, (+46)920-49 1721 mailto:marika.vesterberg@ltu.se.

Application

We prefer that you apply for the position via the application button below where you attach the application documents requested, including diplomas (certified and translated into Swedish or English), pedagogical self-reflection and publications, etc. Follow the link https://www.ltu.se/download/18.4857b8d018b84b04208893d/1698827835983/INSTRUKTIONER%20F%C3%96R%20S%C3%96KANDE%20SVe.pdf for complete instructions. Please mark your application with the reference number below. Both the application and the degree certificate must be written in Swedish or English.

Date for application: May 6, 2026

Reference number: 2265-2026