Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Civil and Environmental Engineering

Tenure-track Assistant Professor - Civil and Environmental
Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, MA

Full Time

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE),
together with the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge,
MA, seeks applicants for tenure-track faculty positions to begin
July 1, 2027, or on a mutually agreed date thereafter. Appointment
will be at the assistant professor level. In special cases,
however, an untenured associate or senior faculty appointment may
be possible, commensurate with experience.

We seek candidates who can make foundational contributions to the
science and engineering of decision-making for networked
infrastructure. We are interested in researchers developing
learning, optimization, and control methods for infrastructure
systems that sense, decide, and adapt - safely and at scale - with
strong connections to real-world systems such as supply chains,
energy, transportation, water, logistics, and other critical
infrastructure networks.

Particular areas of interest include: sequential decision-making at
scale, including learning, optimization, and control under
uncertainty across supply chains, energy systems, transportation,
and logistics; hybrid physics and data models that combine
first-principles physics with data, real-time sensing, state
estimation, and rigorous uncertainty quantification; and
trustworthy AI for critical infrastructure, including foundations
for safe operation, verification, guardrails, human oversight, and
resilience to human-cyber-physical failures.

We are especially interested in candidates who connect
methodological advances in machine learning, operations research,
control, statistics, or related fields to fundamental and
consequential infrastructure problems. The successful candidate
will help deepen the intellectual bridge between CEE and IDSS and
contribute to the development of intelligent infrastructure systems
in which physical dynamics, sensing, inference, decision-making,
and control are integrated into a coherent engineering
framework.

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellence in original
research and a strong commitment to interdisciplinary education.
Faculty responsibilities include teaching at the undergraduate and
graduate levels, advising students, conducting original scholarly
research, developing course materials, and contributing to both CEE
and IDSS educational programs. The normal teaching load is two
subjects per year, with teaching responsibilities coordinated
across the two units.

Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Environmental
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied
Mathematics, or a related science or engineering field by the
beginning of employment. Candidates from adjacent disciplines are
encouraged to apply when their work advances the science and
engineering of infrastructure decision-making.

The pay range for a 9-month academic appointment at the entry-level
Assistant Professor rank (excluding summer salary): $143,000 -
$147,000. The pay offered to a selected candidate during hiring
will be based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and
responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience
and education/training, internal peer equity, and applicable legal
requirements. This pay range represents base pay only and does not
include any other benefits or compensation. Employment is
contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background check,
including possible verification of any findings of misconduct or
pending investigations from prior employers.

Applications should include: (a) curriculum vitae, (b) a research
statement, (c) a teaching and mentoring plan, and (d) the names and
contact information of 3 reference letter writers, who should
upload their letters of recommendation by the application
deadline.

Please submit online applications to https://faculty-searches.mit.edu/soe/cee-idss/.
To receive full consideration, completed applications should be
submitted by December 1, 2026. Contact one@mit.edu with
questions.

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and strongly encourage applications from individuals from all
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equitable consideration for employment based on their experience
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