Assistant Professor - Mechanical Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley seeks applicants for three tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor level. This search covers multiple areas of critical need in Mechanical Engineering (ME) as well as its nexus with Aerospace Engineering (AE). We seek candidates that can develop and lead a vibrant research program that will advance the department’s efforts to address society’s grand challenges, as well as provide instructional excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.

Priority areas for this search include: Combustion, reacting flows, propulsion, hypersonics, thermal management at all scales, and energy technologies for sustainability. Dynamics and structural mechanics, acoustics, dynamical systems, astrodynamics/orbital mechanics, and other topics at the ME-AE nexus such as aerospace systems engineering, spacecraft/mission design, space debris management, and remote sensing.

All qualified applicants whose work supports contemporary topics in any of these priority areas will be considered. The Department of Mechanical Engineering is part of the College of Engineering in the University of California, Berkeley, a premier public university. The Mechanical Engineering undergraduate and PhD programs are both consistently ranked among the top programs nationwide, attracting talented and diverse students and researchers.

Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the foremost technology hub in the United States, the ME department has strong connections with many of the world’s leading companies in a variety of industries. Many of our faculty similarly benefit from affiliations and strong collaborations with a variety of pre-eminent research centers nearby.

Of particular relevance for this search are our connections and opportunities with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and its Energy Technologies Area, UC Berkeley’s new initiative in Energy, Climate, and Environment, the Richmond Field Station, the Berkeley Air & Space Center at NASA Ames, the Space Sciences Lab, and the College of Engineering’s rapidly developing Aerospace Engineering program.

UC Berkeley values the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples, single parents, or those who may have taken time off for family reasons. For information about potential relocation to Berkeley, or career needs of accompanying partners and spouses, please visit the Office for Faculty Equity and Welfare's website .