E3 Assistant Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Computational Engineering)

School/Department:          School of Engineering

Job Category and Level:   Academic; Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)

Closing Date :                     09-Apr-2026 12:00

Post Status Tenure Track - This position is Tenure Track position which is 5-years in the first instance, permanency is subject to satisfying the tenure requirements.

The Purpose of the Role 

This Assistant Professor in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Computational Engineering) will be appointed to contribute to teaching, research and administrative activities in the Discipline of Electronic and Electrical Engineering within the School of Engineering. The post holder will build on the existing educational HCI initiative in Computational Engineering and complement the existing staff in the wider Departmental and School areas of Digital Media Signal Processing, Circuits and Systems, Digital Communication, Bioengineering, Power Management and Control, as well as the emerging area of Quantum Algorithms and Communication.

Increasingly the research groups in the Department and the School are interdisciplinary. In this recruitment call we are interested in growing our team in Computational Engineering in the context of AI and Deep Learning as it applies to Digital Visual Media Processing. We encourage applications from candidates with research interests within this context e.g. biomedical, automotive, entertainment and broadcast systems, quantum algorithms, biodiversity and climate monitoring. The postholder will deliver modules at the undergraduate and postgraduate level as part of an HCI initiative in Computational Engineering, contribute to the growth of the E3 programme across the Faculty and add to the activities of the Sigmedia Group (sigmedia.tv)

Context 

The School of Engineering is ranked #1 in Ireland (QS Rankings) and is a proud recipient of a Bronze Athena Swan award, attained in 2021. As part of the School's on-going actions in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion it welcomes all applications that meet the criteria below and particularly those from under-represented groups. The school offers a collegiate and supportive environment to all its staff and works to ensure that all its staff and students can perform at their best while putting in those steps that facilitate a healthy work/life balance. 

The Discipline of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (https://www.tcd.ie/eleceng/) contributes to teaching and research across the Engineering School including Mechanical, Civil and Computer Engineering. The successful candidate will report to the Head of Discipline. There is an undergraduate complement of the order of 300 Engineering students in each year. The Discipline is active in research, with staff leading major national initiatives e.g. the CONNECT Research Ireland Centre. It is ranked #1 in Ireland and top 150 in the world according to the QS ranking. The Discipline has strong links with a variety of important industrial centres including AMD/Xilinx, Qualcomm, Analog Devices, Google/YouTube and Intel. It is also a major participant in the CONNECT and ADAPT Research Ireland research centres. New initiatives involving AI in Engineering as well as Quantum Computing and Communication have also just been launched. These form part of major new research thrusts for the Department in the years to come. The main research groups are in Statistical and Media Signal Processing, Digital Communications Engineering, Circuits and Systems (including Cyberphysical Systems), Music and Media Technology, Bioengineering and Quantum Technology. The Sigmedia group (Media Signal Processing www.sigmedia.tv) is widely recognised for its work in audio and video engineering and is one of the few groups in the world to have had its technology acquired by Google in the areas of video engineering and spatial audio. The Digital Communications Engineering group conducts world leading research on wireless and optical systems with experimental facilities in the CONNECT Lab, Smart Docklands and COSMOS testbeds federated globally. A number of staff in the Discipline are PIs in the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering and deliver modules in the Biomedical Engineering programme. We are also part of the exciting Global Brain Health Institute which connects Trinity College and the University of San Francisco.

Qualifications 

• Ph.D in the discipline of Electronic and Electrical Engineering or other related area e.g. Electronic and Computer Engineering, DSP, Computational Engineering, Mathematics, Physics 

• Undergraduate degree in the discipline of Electronic/Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computational Engineering or cognate discipline