Assistant Professor in Software Engineering

Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University announces an open competition for the position:

Assistant Professor in Software Engineering

Number of open positions: 1

Application deadline: January 31, 2026

Working Hours: full-time (40 hours per week – possibly less in the initial period and then gradually increasing)

Expected start: September 2026, by mutual agreement

Employment: 3-year initial contract (with a possible extension – tenure track)

Workplace: Faculty of Informatics – Department of Computer Systems and Communications, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, Brno

EU Researcher Profile: Researcher 2

Salary: CZK 63 700 and a start-up grant

Job description key points

• The position is focused on both teaching and research.
• The candidates are expected to carry out research of excellent quality in the area of software engineering and/or closely related areas.
• The candidates should be able to prepare and deliver lectures and tutorials in courses of software engineering and programming at the bachelor as well as master level within the study programmes of the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University (FI MU): https://www.fi.muni.cz/catalogue-current/?all=1&lang=en.
• They should be willing and capable of taking full responsibility for some of such courses (eventually also courses as large as a few hundred students).
• The candidates should also show a large degree of flexibility in teaching subjects that are not directly related to their particular areas of research.
• The candidates should be ready to supervise undergraduate as well as graduate students.
• Finally, the candidates should be willing and have the potential to apply for research projects and to advance to an associate professor level in a not-too-far future.

The successful candidate must have:

• PhD in computer science;
• existing track record in research;
• experience in teaching;
• passion for problem-solving and desire to work with students;
• dynamic, flexible personality, ability to work well in teams;
• fluency in English (both spoken and written); other language(s) welcome;
• experience from other countries than Czechia and Slovakia (at least one year).

Desired skills and achievements:

• PhD thesis and/or subsequent research in software engineering and/or closely related areas;
• at least some publications with co-authors from outside of the Czech and Slovak Republics;
• experience from working on grant projects or even attracting grant funds;
• ability to work well in interdisciplinary teams.

Applicants should submit:

• structured CV, including a summary of work experience, publication activity, teaching, involvement in research grants, etc.;
• copy of the diploma from the highest level of education (notarial certification not required);
• research statement describing candidate´s research interests, achievements, and future goals (max 2 pages);
• a brief proposal of how the current courses concerning software engineering at FI MU (All in one | Study catalogue | FI MU) could possibly be improved and/or what course(s) from these areas could be newly introduced;
• title and abstract of a lecture in English for broad audience from the faculty on a topic within software engineering or closely related areas that will both show that the candidate has pedagogical skills and at the same time suitably present some of the original results obtained by the candidate (i.e., the lecture should touch upon some original results of the candidate but put into a broader context and presented in a way understandable even by computer scientists or students who are not experts in the narrow field of the candidate);
• the names and contact details of three professional referees.

We offer

• an interesting job in a prestigious university environment with international overlap and cooperation with the application sphere;
• career development and growth (e.g. university seminar series, courses provided by MU, participation in conferences, staff mobility training, participation in research projects, support of project department);
• relocation support and help from the Welcome Office MU;
• employee benefits such as eight weeks of paid vacation per year, pension insurance contribution, Multisport card, vaccination allowance, childcare group at MU building (Komenského nám., Brno);
• workplace close to the centre of Brno with parking directly on the faculty premises.

Please submit your application, including all required documents, preferably online via the MU e-application - please use the link Assistant Professor in Software Engineering | Masarykova univerzita.

In case this way of submission would not be possible, we also accept a paper application with a declaration of the reason for such a submission.

The selection process is based on the Open Transparent Merit-based Recruitment Policy. Faculty of Informatics holds the HR Excellence in Research Award. The rules of the selection processes at FI MU can be found at Guide to the selection procedure | FI MU.

Once submitting your application successfully, you will receive an automatic confirmation email. Candidates successful in the first round of the selection process will be invited for an in-person interview or a video-conference interview. Candidates who succeed in the second round will be invited to present a public lecture.

Queries regarding the submission procedure can be sent to the HR Department of FI MU: pers@fi.muni.cz.

Queries regarding the position as such can be addressed to Prof. Tomáš Vojnar, Head of the Department of Computer Science FI MU, vojnar@fi.muni.cz.

Further information is available:

• Faculty of Informatics at https://www.fi.muni.cz/
• Brno at https://www.gotobrno.cz/en/