PHD Position

PhD Position in AI for Software Reuse and Agentic Development Deadline 1 Dec '26 Published today Vacancy ID 3997 Job types PhD Education level University graduate Weekly hours 38 hours per week Salary indication €3204-€4051 per month Location Mekelweg 5, 2628CD, Delft Job description How can AI agents build on existing software instead of reinventing it? Software intensive organizations rely on increasingly large and complex software ecosystems consisting of services, libraries, APIs, frameworks, documentation, and other shared engineering knowledge. Recent advances in generative AI and software engineering agents are changing how software is developed and how developers interact with these ecosystems. TU Delft is collaborating with ING to investigate how we can make enterprise software development more sustainable and reliable in this changing landscape. We will develop new techniques and tools that help developers and AI agents make better use of existing software and developer knowledge. Our research will combine AI with software repository mining, program and architecture analysis, empirical software engineering, and studies with practitioners. The research will focus on real-world software engineering challenges at ING, while contributing scientific insights and open research results that can benefit the broader software engineering community. Within this collaboration, we explore two main research directions: Direction 1: Software Reuse in Enterprise Software Ecosystems Large organizations invest substantially in reusable software assets. However, as a consequence similar functionality can be implemented independently across teams, increasing fragmentation and long-term maintenance costs. AI-assisted software development makes this challenge even more important: software engineering agents can rapidly generate new code, but may reproduce functionality that already exists elsewhere in an organization. This ...