Faculty Position in School of Engineering, Design

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.

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.

We invite applications from individuals who are pursuing research at the intersection of design and engineering, especially in the following modes: research into design, research for design, and research through design. 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.

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.

• Cover letter
• CV
• Brief statements of research and teaching interests (3-5 pages total for both combined)
• Two representative publications
• Names and e-mail addresses of 3-5 references

Candidates should apply online. Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2025.

The expected base pay range for this position is:
Assistant Professor: $141,247- $159,910
, Associate Professor (untenured): $152,547 - $191,506
, Associate Professor (tenured): $162,547 - $201,506
, Professor: $178,000 - $266,391

Stanford University is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.