Employment opportunities
Faculty positions
The Department of Computer Science at Tufts University invites applications for multiple open faculty positions. Candidates are encouraged to demonstrate throughout their application their attention to diversity and inclusion as these topics relate to teaching, research, and engagement within the academic environment.
We welcome candidates with a variety of life experiences and perspectives that will positively contribute to the Tufts computer science department and broader university community. Women, Black/African Descent, Indigenous/Native American, Hispanic/Latinx, People of Color, LGBTQ+, individuals with disabilities, and others with intersecting marginalized identities are strongly encouraged to apply. The department especially values candidates who have an interest in civic engagement, social impact, and the betterment of society.
Adjunct faculty positions
We conduct an ongoing search for qualified part-time lecturers for in-person and online courses. Submit your application at http://apply.interfolio.com/168765.
Postdoctoral positions
The Human-AI Interaction (HAII) Center develops and uses AI technology for improving the long-term autonomy and interaction capabilities of future AI systems, embodied and disembodied, that are embedded in human societies such as virtual agents based on foundation models (e.g., personal cognitive assistants on smart devices, advisor systems, large generative AI language models like ChatGPT, etc.) or assistive robots (e.g., for elder care, search and rescue, surveillance, manufacturing, health monitoring).
The employed technologies encompass various AI approaches (e.g., generative AI for language understanding and common sense, deep neural networks for perception and reinforcement learning, symbolic reasoning for task planning, hybrid methods for natural language understanding, etc.) to control the behavior of fully autonomous virtual and robotic agents and their interactions with humans. Novel methods and technologies are evaluated in human-AI interaction experiments to determine their suitability and utility. Most critically, the HAII Center has a focus on ethical AI and thus aims to establish the norm-confirming nature of all developed technologies.
With the launch of the new AI Institute, the HAII Center offers two postdoc positions in HAII with renewable one-year appointments and the possibility to switch to a more advanced research staff position (research staff and faculty position will be offered as well in the future to more senior candidates). Postdocs will contribute to the Center's research mission by joining teams of faculty and staff researchers in developing proposals and performing research of high impact in all areas of HAII.
Suitable candidates must demonstrate technical excellence in any area of AI that deals with human interaction through high-impact peer-reviewed publications. Teaching experience is not necessary. Salaries are competitive and commensurate with experience. Full benefits are included (health care, pension, commuter, etc.). Start dates can be negotiated but ideally candidates would start this spring already.
Applications will be reviewed as they arrive and the positions will be filled on a rolling basis. Please email Matthias Scheutz at Tufts.edu for more information.
Staff positions
Please check jobs.tufts.edu for staff opportunities in the Tufts Department of Computer Science.
About Tufts
The Tufts CS department has grown significantly in the past decade in faculty, student size, and research funding. The department recently moved into the brand-new Joyce Cummings Center, which is also the home of Math, Economics, the Data Intensive Studies Center, and the Derby Entrepreneurship Center. Tufts offers the best of a liberal arts college atmosphere coupled with the intellectual and technological resources of an R1 research university. We support and encourage a culture of interdisciplinary research, and there are numerous such opportunities within the university. Located only six miles from historic downtown Boston, faculty members on the Tufts Medford/Somerville campus have extensive opportunities for academic and industrial collaboration outside of Tufts as well as participation in the rich intellectual life of the area.
Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. See the University’s Non-Discrimination statement and policy at https://oeo.tufts.edu/policies-procedures/non-discrimination/. If you are an applicant with a disability who is unable to use our online tools to search and apply for jobs, please contact us by calling the Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) at 617-627-3298 or at oeo@tufts.edu. Applicants can learn more about requesting reasonable accommodations at http://oeo.tufts.edu.