Boston University: Assistant Professor in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The search mainly wants candidates working at the frontiers of robotics in mechanical engineering, but it welcomes anyone whose work extends the department's strengths. Those strengths are advanced manufacturing, aerospace, biomechanics and mechanobiology, dynamics and control, energy and sustainability, materials, solid mechanics and thermofluids. The post suits early-career researchers who want to build a research program in a collaborative, multidisciplinary college.
What you'll do
- Build an ambitious research program that complements and strengthens the strengths of the College of Engineering
- Teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in the home department
- Teach cross-college courses as well as department courses
- Join the multidisciplinary research centers that Mechanical Engineering faculty lead and take part in, such as the Hariri Institute and the NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials
- Pursue research with attention to its societal impact
Who can apply
- A PhD in engineering or a related field is expected
- Candidates should be ready to run a research program that fits the interdisciplinary mission of the College of Engineering
- The department is primarily seeking work in robotics within mechanical engineering, but applicants from its other core areas are welcome
- The page says it is explicitly looking for candidates who are interested in the societal impact of their research
- Applicants should be able to teach at both graduate and undergraduate level
How to apply
Applications received by November 15, 2026 get full consideration, and the page encourages early applications.
Official page: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32666