Jobs at Carnegie Mellon University

Deploys, configures, maintains, and monitors LAN and WAN networks and related services. Troubleshoots complex network issues, responds to Tier 3 support requests, monitors security and connectivity, evaluates network performance, determines infrastructure requirements, and maintains technical documentation. The role requires strong analytical, organizational, planning, and problem-solving skills, along with network administration, deployment, support, and security experience.

Supports AI, automation, process improvement, and financial systems initiatives for university operations. Responsibilities include documenting business processes, gathering requirements, analyzing data, supporting solution design and testing, coordinating stakeholders, assisting with Oracle E-Business Suite Financials, tracking project activities, researching emerging technologies, and supporting implementation and user adoption.

Develop and manage corporate and foundation partnerships for Tepper School of Business. The role coordinates internal stakeholders, builds engagement and fundraising strategies, secures support for research and educational priorities, prepares partner communications, oversees stewardship, tracks portfolio performance, and strengthens employer and academic relationships. It supervises a part-time employee and may travel to cultivate and sustain partnerships.

Leads fundraising, alumni engagement, donor cultivation, stewardship, advancement strategy, and external relations for Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering. Advises the dean, manages major gift portfolios, develops donor and volunteer networks, coordinates with university advancement teams, oversees reporting and budgets, and leads a professional advancement staff. The role requires extensive higher education development experience, campaign expertise, strategic leadership, and strong relationship-management skills.

Develop and lead software engineering, architecture, integration, testing, modernization, and sustainment efforts for mission-critical Department of War planning and readiness applications. Analyze legacy systems, develop prototypes, document architectures, assess technical risks, support acquisition decisions, and mentor development teams. The role requires collaboration with government, military, program office, and contractor stakeholders, plus travel of up to 25%.

Supports university fundraising and advancement initiatives through donor stewardship, constituent record management, reporting, research, event and meeting coordination, stakeholder communication, documentation, and process improvement. The role maintains accurate advancement data, prepares briefing materials, monitors projects, supports donor and partner relationships, and ensures compliance with university policies. Strong organization, communication, attention to detail, and independent execution are required.

Coordinates Carnegie Mellon University Africa’s Teaching and Learning portfolio in Kigali, including implementation plans, budgets, timelines, faculty development, bridge programs, experiential learning, events, stakeholder coordination, donor reporting, data collection, and inclusive excellence initiatives. The role manages multiple workstreams across institutions and supports educational innovation, operational excellence, and program impact measurement.

Leads complex, cross-functional projects across Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering from initiation through closeout. Responsibilities include project planning, governance, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, stakeholder coordination, performance tracking, executive reporting, research, and strategic organizational planning. The role supports multiple high-priority academic, research, operational, and strategic initiatives while improving project management practices and facilitating alignment among university leaders, faculty, staff, technical teams, and external vendors.

Assists with human-AI interaction research projects by designing experiments, following protocols, collecting and analyzing data, maintaining detailed records, summarizing statistics, writing technical reports, and developing solutions to research obstacles. May build quantitative models and program software in support of research activities. Collaborates with project teams and contributes to experiment documentation and results presentation.

Supports learning engineering research, grant-funded initiatives, and professional education collaborations. Develops strategy, coordinates research studies, evaluates learning technologies including generative AI, translates learning sciences evidence into scalable practices, and designs effective learning experiences. The role also drives continuous improvement, communicates findings to stakeholders, supports external partnerships, and advises leadership through reports and presentations.

Leads cross-functional robotics engineering projects from concept through prototyping, integration, field testing, and deployment. Responsibilities include sponsor communication, work breakdown structures, scheduling, resource and budget management, procurement planning, risk mitigation, safety compliance, milestone reporting, design reviews, proposal development, and statement-of-work drafting. The role coordinates hardware, software, autonomy, mechanical, electrical, and systems safety teams while balancing stage-gate controls with Agile development.

Conduct biomedical engineering research by designing and executing experiments, analyzing data, documenting results, developing quantitative models, and preparing technical reports. The role involves identifying research obstacles, programming supporting software, maintaining accurate records, attending project meetings, and supporting study needs and animal welfare. A bachelor’s degree and 1–3 years of research laboratory and methodology experience are required.

Designs, develops, tests, maintains, and optimizes data pipelines and software systems using SQL, Python, and Apache Airflow. Supports technical projects, documents systems, troubleshoots application performance, evaluates user requirements, and develops technical specifications. Collaborates with epidemiologists, statisticians, and researchers, while mentoring staff and translating academic research needs into software solutions.

Provides enrollment, financial aid, student account, registration, and tuition support to students and families. Resolves enrollment and payment issues, evaluates financial aid eligibility, develops payment arrangements, manages retention caseloads, liaises with academic departments, delivers presentations, analyzes processes, and supports staff training.

Provides administrative and departmental workflow support for the Language Technologies Institute, including calendar management, travel coordination, event planning, course administration, financial reporting, expense reimbursements, procurement, and budget compliance. The role also supports websites and digital information systems, coordinates faculty and academic activities, distributes work to student and support staff, assists with training, and represents the department on campus-wide initiatives.

Supports biomedical engineering laboratory research through in vivo and in vitro experiments, including surgical animal studies, anesthesia, perioperative care, sample collection, specimen processing, data analysis, and recordkeeping. Maintains laboratory equipment and supplies, assists with protocol development and study coordination, troubleshoots procedures, and trains personnel in research techniques, animal handling, and laboratory practices while ensuring compliance with approved protocols.

Develops and delivers technical, instructional, web, marketing, and communications content for Computing Services. Responsibilities include researching specifications, interviewing subject matter experts, creating storyboards and digital content, conducting content usability testing, recommending communication approaches, and improving editorial standards. The role collaborates with technical writers, strategists, and project teams while supporting university communications and content strategy goals.

Provides executive administrative support to the President’s management team, including calendar management, travel arrangements, correspondence, records, meeting agendas, and minutes. Oversees executive conference room facilities, access, inventory, procurement, vendors, invoices, and expense processing. Serves as a liaison with internal and external stakeholders, manages front-desk guest experiences, tracks deadlines, and coordinates strategic projects, events, and university programs with discretion and diplomacy.

Leads evaluation, deployment, integration, and operation of secure generative and agentic AI tools, LLMs, and self-hosted multi-GPU infrastructure. Develops AI services, APIs, MCP servers, sandboxed environments, engineering-system integrations, and AI-assisted workflows. Measures reliability and effectiveness, documents recommended practices, supports technical teams, and evaluates emerging technologies across software, robotics, embedded, FPGA, and other engineering domains.

Reverse engineer malicious code, develop malware analysis methods and tools, identify emerging threats, and document findings for government and other high-impact customers. The role applies AI to reverse engineering, analyzes binaries across architectures and operating system levels, prototypes tools, creates malware signatures, and contributes through technical reports, presentations, collaboration, mentoring, and training. Occasional travel and an active Department of War security clearance are required.