Senior Lecturer, ICT, Robotics

Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) is seeking a Senior Lecturer (ICT, Robotics) starting August 1, 2026.

As a Senior Lecturer, you will be responsible for teaching and supervision within your area of expertise in ICT and applied robotics. Your duties include:

planning, delivering and assessing courses

developing the curriculum and learning environments together with the teaching team

supervising student projects and theses

collaborating with companies and participating in national and international projects

Teaching brings together software development, robotics and embedded systems, with particular attention to the applied use of machine learning in industrial automation and robotics. The focus is on helping students develop functioning solutions and understand how data, algorithms and physical systems interact in practice.

Teaching at the Riihimäki campus is supported by a Learning Factory, designed to reflect industrial workflows in a flexible and reconfigurable environment suitable for education. It is a curriculum-wide setting that supports learning from the first year onwards.

As a Senior Lecturer, you will contribute to the pedagogical use and further development of these learning environments in teaching, student projects and industry collaboration.

The position involves collaboration with regional and national companies, research partners and both national and international educational networks. You will contribute to strengthening cooperation between education and working life as well as to developing the local robotics and technology ecosystem.

You are expected to hold a relevant masters degree (e.g. in ICT, robotics, automation or a closely related field). The following are considered an advantage:

strong technical competence in ICT and/or robotics

experience from industry, applied development or research projects

interest in developing student-centred teaching and learning environments

teaching experience in higher educatio