Faculty Position in School of Engineering, Design

Faculty Opening

The School of Engineering at Stanford University invites applicants for an all‑ranks faculty search in the area of Design. The appointment will be at the tenure‑track assistant professor, tenure‑track or tenured associate professor, or tenured full professor rank. The primary home department will be one of the nine departments in the School of Engineering and will be determined during the search process.

Work type: University Tenure Line

Location: Stanford University

Categories: School of Engineering

Designers produce physical artifacts, computational systems, and human organizations; they draw on new materials and affect natural and built environments. Design is central to all branches of engineering, contributing cross‑disciplinary methods for framing and refining a design problem, generating novel approaches, and evaluating candidate solutions. Modern perspectives in design have moved beyond solely functional requirements to include stakeholder need‑finding, socio‑technical constraints, and attention to ethics and societal implications.

We invite applications from individuals who are pursuing research at the intersection of design and engineering, especially in the following modes: research into design (the study of how people design new artifacts, systems, or organizations), research for design (tools and methods to support designers and engineers, including interactive, computational, and optimization techniques), and research through design (applying the design process to understand and create novel outcomes).

Candidates can be conducting this work in the context of any engineering discipline.

Successful candidates should be conducting world‑class research and translating their results into real‑world impact in their domain, or in the case of junior candidates, have demonstrated potential to do so. In addition to excellence in research, we expect candidates to be or become leaders in design engineering education, and to effectively communicate the role of design in shaping technology, including considering its impacts.

A successful candidate will be expected to teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels and to build and lead a team of graduate students in Ph.D. research.

Applicants must have completed, or be completing, a Ph.D. in the engineering field in which they apply their work, or a closely related one.

The School of Engineering and Stanford University value faculty who will help foster an open and respectful academic environment for colleagues, students, and staff with a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Candidates may choose to include, as part of their research and teaching statements, a brief discussion about how their work and experience will further these values.

• Cover letter
• CV
• Brief statements of research and teaching interests (3‑5 pages total for both combined). Candidates are encouraged to describe not only their accomplishments but also specific planned research projects and courses that they might like to teach.
• Two representative publications
• Names and e‑mail addresses of 3‑5 references. Applicants for untenured rank positions should request that all letters are submitted by the Final date to receive applications. Applicants for tenured rank positions should submit the names and contact information, but we will only request letters of recommendation for candidates that are short listed.
• In the cover letter, applicants should identify potential home department(s) in the School of Engineering. In addition to applying to this search, if a potential home department has an active search at their rank, they should also apply to the departmental search and indicate in that application that they have also applied to the Design search.

Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2025
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If you have questions regarding this opening or require assistance with the online application system, please contact the Faculty Search Administrator at soefacultysearch.

Assistant Professor: $141,247 – $159,910

Associate Professor (untenured): $152,547 – $191,506

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