Assistant Professor, Interior Design

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Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track
Location: San José
Categories: Unit 3 - CFA
- California Faculty Association, Faculty
- Letters/Humanities, Tenured/Tenure-Track, Full Time, On-site (work in-person at business location)

Position Rank and

Title:

Assistant Professor, Interior Design

School/Department Name: Department of Design

Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as established by the CSU Salary Schedule . Anticipated hiring academic year annual salary range: $90,000-$94,000, depending on qualifications.

Faculty employee benefits are very competitive for the higher education sector. See the CSU Employee Benefits Summary for details about the CSU’s excellent benefits package.

Target

Start Date:

August 16, 2027 (Fall 2027)

Final date to receive applications: January 8, 2027 (Applications accepted until filled or closed)

The Department of Design at San José State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Interior Design, beginning in Fall 2027. This is an academic-year appointment. We seek a designer, educator, and researcher whose work bridges professional practice and academic inquiry, and who can teach in the undergraduate interior design curriculum, including foundation studios, space planning, materials and construction, digital and computational tools, and advanced electives aligned with the candidate's expertise and research.

San Jose State University is committed to excellence and enhancing student experience through engaged teaching and dedicated advising by all faculty. The ideal candidate brings professional practice experience in interior design alongside academic teaching experience, and demonstrates fluency with the emerging technologies shaping the discipline.

We are particularly interested in candidates whose research or creative practice advances interior design through emerging technologies, whether through digital fabrication, computational and parametric design, responsive or smart materials, immersive visualization, AI, or related areas of inquiry. The ideal candidate demonstrates rigor in their scholarly and creative research, and will contribute new knowledge through creative practice, design research, scholarship, or public engagement.

The department recognizes multiple forms of scholarly and creative activity, including peer-reviewed publications, exhibitions, built work, funded research, public scholarship, and other contributions that advance the discipline.

The Department of Design is centered on design research, creative and emerging technologies, and interdisciplinary collaboration. We seek faculty who use technology in adaptive, inclusive, poetic, collaborative, agentic, and experimental ways while advancing socially responsible design practices. The department offers four professional degrees and is organized around five discipline groups:
Interior Design, Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, and Animation. The interior design program at SJSU offers two four-year degrees: a BA of Design Studies with a focus in interior design and a professional BFA in Interior Design, both of which are NASAD-accredited and ranked highly in California and in the US. Our faculty includes designers, architects, artists, and historians committed to excellence and collaboration across the department, college, university, Silicon Valley, and beyond.

Prospective faculty will have opportunities to engage with the Advanced Institute for Ethical Technologies (AI-ET) , which advances interdisciplinary and community-centered dialogue about responsible technology, and the Digital Humanities Center , a collaborative hub for digitally informed…