Assistant Professor, Tenure Track - Robotics in Mechanical Engineering

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Description The Department of Mechanical Engineering, within the College of Engineering, at the University of Washington, Seattle, invites outstanding faculty candidates to apply for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position. This position is on a 9-month service period with an anticipated start date of September 16, 2026. This position is aimed at recruiting exceptional candidates in any of the subdisciplines of Mechanical Engineering, with a particular focus on Robotics. The UW Mechanical Engineering Department has achieved international prominence in additive and advanced manufacturing, including composite materials manufacturing, biomechanics and biomedical engineering sciences, physics-based machine learning and artificial intelligence modeling and controls, energy storage and electrification, renewable energy and thermal and fluid sciences. The successful candidates will be expected to develop a strong research program on the fundamentals of Robotics, with applications to one or many of the areas of impact for which Mechanical Engineering is well-known. The successful candidate will also be expected to strengthen some of these key areas and to open new su...