Optical Assistant​/Optical Office Staff

Optical Assistant / Optical Office Staff

Position Overview

Salary range: The current salary for this position ranges from $80,800 (Assistant Professor academic year 9-month appointment) to $270,000 (Full Professor fiscal year 11-month appointment). Off‑scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions.

Anticipated start: July 1, 2026 or January 1, 2027.

Application Window: Open date:
November 20, 2025.

Next review date: Saturday, Jan 31, 2027 at 11:59 pm (Pacific Time).

Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Saturday, Jan 31, 2027 at 11:59 pm (Pacific Time). Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

Position

Description:

The Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of California Berkeley seeks applications for a tenure‑track faculty position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank. Our goal is to recruit an outstanding colleague with strong interests in ocular disease, ocular biology, and therapeutics, or a related research area relevant to the eye or vision. The Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science has several clinical facilities that serve a large diverse patient population, a clinical research center, and many laboratories in the Vision Science graduate program conducting research in optics, ocular biology, ocular disease, translational and clinical research, molecular and cell biology, microbiology and infectious disease, perception, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and computational vision.

The successful candidate will also have opportunities to be considered for membership in other programs across the UC Berkeley campus, including the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases, and the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. Current faculty also enjoy collaborations with the UC Berkeley departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Computer Science, Molecular and Cell Biology, Psychology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Infectious Disease and multiple divisions within the School of Public Health, as well as the UC San Francisco Department of Ophthalmology.

The department is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual‑career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non‑traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia. For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit followed by a link.

Basic Qualifications (required at time of application):

• Candidates must have an OD, MD, DO, Pharm
  
  D, DVM or equivalent clinical degree from an accredited institution (or equivalent international degree) and/or a PhD (or equivalent international degree).

Preferred Qualifications
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• Preference will be given to candidates with both research and clinical training. The successful applicant will demonstrate potential for exceptional basic, clinical, and/or translational research achievements as well as excellence in teaching in both the professional (Doctor of Optometry) and graduate (PhD program in Vision Science) curricula. Applicants should also have the potential to establish strong collaborations at the local, national, and global levels.

• Curriculum Vitae – Your most recently updated C.V.
• Cover Letter (Optional)
• Statement of Research Interests and Future Plans – Please discuss research accomplishments and proposed plans. This can include, for example, your publication record, awards, presentations, the impact of your research to date, inclusive research practices that promote the excellence of your research, and areas for future research.
• Statement of Teaching and Mentoring – Please discuss prior teaching experience, teaching approach, and future teaching interests. This can include, for example, specific efforts and…