Description
The Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the nation's leading public research universities, is seeking candidates for four faculty positions to start July 1, 2027. Three are part of university-wide cluster hires designed so new faculty arrive with collaborators already in place across the health sciences, statistics, engineering, and neuroscience.
Positions include:
- Assistant Professor, tenure-track - Safeguarding AI in Health. Cluster hire with Statistics and Operations Research and Biostatistics on safe, reliable AI for healthcare and other high-stakes domains. Secondary appointment in STOR.
- Assistant Professor, tenure-track - Neuroengineering. Cluster hire with Biomedical Engineering, Data Science, and Neurosurgery on computing for neural interfaces, real-time neural signal processing, and closed-loop neuromodulation.
- Full Professor, Director, UNC Gillings Center for Artificial Intelligence and Public Health. Primary appointment in Biostatistics, secondary in Computer Science. Leads the Safeguarding Artificial Intelligence in Health cluster.
- Teaching Assistant Professor, teaching-track. Permanent, state-appropriated faculty line with an initial three-year appointment and renewal terms of up to five years; promotion path to Teaching Associate Professor and Teaching Professor. Teaches foundational undergraduate courses, with depth in ethics and society, AI, software engineering, systems, robotics, architecture, or verification.
Screenings for Teaching position begins November 1, 2026 and other positions December 1, 2026 and continue until the positions are filled. Full descriptions and application instructions: cs.unc.edu/about/faculty-hiring/
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity employer.
Requirements
Dependent on position.
