Amanuens within research in Software Engineering, Requirements engineering for AI-based systems

The University of Gothenburg tackles society’s challenges with diverse knowledge. 56 000 students and 6 600 employees make the university a large and inspiring place to work and study. Strong research and attractive study programmes attract researchers and students from around the world. With new knowledge and new perspectives, the University contributes to a better future.

The department of Computer Science and Engineering is a fully integrated department with the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology as principles. The department offers courses in a broad range of subjects.

The department of Computer Science and Engineering is now looking for amanuens within research in the field of Requirements engineering for AI-based systems. The work will be performed with a start date in December 2024 until the end of June 2025.

The assignment shall support synergies between two active research projects: The Vinnova FFI Famer project, which aims to establish a requirements engineering approach for safety critical automotive perception systems, and a Software Center Project “Engineering Knowledge Flows”, which aims to manage engineering knowledge in large scale agile systems development. The Textual Requirements System (TReqS, https://gitlab.com/treqs-on-git/treqs-ng) is an open source, git-based requirements tool that allows to demonstrate key accomplishments in both projects.

Job assignments

When working in a research project, you will work with helping and supporting senior researchers with practical elements of their research project. This could for example include setting up empirical studies, collecting and maintaining data, data analysis tasks or programming tasks. You will have regular contact with the researcher about which elements and practical moments you can be of help within.

Qualifications

To be qualified for the position

- You are an active student at bachelor or master level studying in one of the institution’s BSc or MSc level programmes at the University of Gothenburg or Chalmers University of Technology

- Basic to good programming skills

- You should have good knowledge in English and Swedish, both spoken and written.

- You need to be in Gothenburg, Sweden during the time for your employment.

- Experience with Python is a merit

- Basic to good levels of experience with git and gitlab is a merit

We will make an overall assessment where great importance will be placed on personal suitability.

Employment

Type of employment: Fixed-term employment
Employment period: 7 months, spring semester 2025
Extent: 20%
Location: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Gothenburg
First day of employment: 2024-12-16 or according to agreement

Contact information for the position

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact
Eric Knauss eric.knauss@cse.gu.se

For questions regarding your application or the recruitment process, please contact
Sanna Staf sanna.staf@cse.gu.se

Unions

Union representatives at the University of Gothenburg: https://www.gu.se/om-universitetet/jobba-hos-oss/hjalp-for-sokande 

Application

In order to apply for a position at the University of Gothenburg, you have to register an account in our online recruitment system. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the job advertisement, and that it is submitted before the deadline.

Fill in the section about personal information and answer the questions. You also need to upload your CV and a transcript of courses that you have passed (can be downloaded from Ladok). After the deadline, all applications will be processed.

Your application need to be submitted by: 2024-12-10

The University works actively to achieve a working environment with equal conditions, and values the qualities that diversity brings to its operations.

In accordance with the National Archives of Sweden’s regulations, the University must archive application documents for two years after the appointment is filled. If you request that your documents are returned, they will be returned to you once the two years have passed. Otherwise, they will be destroyed.

In connection to this recruitment, we have already decided which recruitment channels we should use. We therefore decline further contact with vendors, recruitment and staffing companies.