Instructional Faculty Positions

Description

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Texas at Austin is recruiting for full‑time, professional track faculty (Lecturer, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Associate Professor of Instruction, Professor of Instruction) positions. We encourage applications from candidates who will join our welcoming community and contribute through excellence in teaching and other contributions to the academic enterprise.

The department is consistently ranked among the top computer science programs in the nation. It is renowned for a collegial environment that fosters innovation and collaboration—an environment that attracts many top‑notch faculty and excellent students from across Texas, the country, and the world. We value undergraduate education and have a committed group of highly effective educators who help all students reach high standards, both technical and holistic.

Our instructional faculty typically teach three courses a semester, with two of those courses usually being instances of the same course. In Fall 2024, each faculty member taught an average of 230 students across three courses. The college and department support dual‑career couples and work‑life balance through an array of family‑friendly policies. For more information about the department, please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Austin, the capital of Texas, is a center for high‑technology industries, including companies such as Amazon, AMD, Apple, Applied Materials, AT&T, Dell, Google, IBM, National Instruments, and Samsung. Nestled at the edge of the Texas Hill Country, much of Austin’s lifestyle is driven by outdoor activities, media, and music, due to the availability of green space, the presence of Lady Bird Lake, and the location of events such as SxSW and ACL Music Festival, to name a few.

Check out our local public radio station KUT’s Field Guide to Austin for a wide variety of Austin topics or the Austin Visitor Center’s site for information on things to do.

For this position, the primary duty is teaching undergraduate courses, which includes a wide variety of opportunities, though teaching in our in‑person and online graduate programs may be possible for some candidates. While these positions are not eligible for tenure, they have opportunities for advancement, and we hire with the intent that new professional faculty will become a lasting part of our community.

Teaching opportunities range from introductory computer science courses, such as data structures, discrete mathematics, and computer architecture, to advanced courses, such as algorithms, web applications, cybersecurity, and topics related to artificial intelligence, computer systems, and UI/UX. We have opportunities to teach classes dedicated to CS majors as well as classes targeted to majors from other disciplines—many of our professional faculty teach both types of classes.

For the  cycle, we are particularly interested in candidates that can teach artificial intelligence and related areas, discrete math, and cybersecurity.

Our curriculum offers students an opportunity to investigate the social impact of computer science, and so we have opportunities to develop and teach classes that are technical with social impact considerations integrated into the content as well as stand‑alone technical courses and those related to social impact and ethics. Finally, we are launching interdisciplinary degrees, and so we will have opportunities to teach capstone courses in the integrated disciplines.

In Fall 2025, we welcomed our first students in our History+CS, Linguistics+CS, and Neuroscience+CS programs.

In our department, faculty teaching large courses are supported by Graduate Teaching Assistants (TA), Undergraduate Course Assistants (UGCA), or a combination of the two. We find that our TAs and UGCAs are motivated and enjoy helping students, and many of our instructional faculty develop strong collaborations and close mentoring relationships with their TAs and UGCAs. As part of the position, faculty who are assigned TAs or UGCAs are responsible for assigning and overseeing their duties.

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