Instructional Faculty Positions

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 to it 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. As of Fall 2026, Computer Science is one of three academic units in UT Austin’s new School of Computing, alongside Statistics and Data Sciences and Information. The new School is designed to strengthen collaboration and create new opportunities for cross-departmental research and education. We are renowned for our 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 are committed to helping all students reach the high standards, both technical and holistic, expected of our graduates. Our instructional faculty typically teach three courses a semester, with two of those courses usually being instances of the same course. Our class sizes tend to be on the smaller side of most of our peer departments: in Fall 2024, each faculty member taught an average of 230 students across three courses.

The Department is responsive to the needs of dual career couples and supports work-life balance through an array of family-friendly policies. For more information about the department, please visit https://cs.utexas.edu.

Austin, the capital of Texas, is a major technology hub, home to significant operations from companies such as Amazon, AMD, Apple, Applied Materials, AT&T, Dell, Google, IBM, Meta, NVIDIA, Samsung, Silicon Labs, and Tesla. 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 (a consequence of a dammed river) running through town, and the location of events such as SxSW and ACL Music Festival, to name a select 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 instructional 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, particularly 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 instructional faculty teach both types of classes. For the  cycle, we are particularly interested in candidates that can teach artificial intelligence and related areas, as well as introductory computer science topics.

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…