Assistant Professor, Tenure Track - 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 field of Mechanical Engineering. The UW Mechanical Engineering Department has achieved international prominence in additive and advanced manufacturing, including composite materials manufacturing, robotics, 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 strengthen key areas and to open new subfields with high promise at the national level and in collaboration with industry. The successful applicants will be expected to develop an internationally recognized extramurally funded research program and to provide innovative, high-quality teaching. The candidates will als...