Jobs at Cornell University

Conduct aquatic ecology and stream restoration research across New York State, including stream surveys, habitat assessments, biological monitoring, macroinvertebrate analysis, and geomorphic measurements. Analyze environmental data using R, prepare technical reports and presentations, collaborate with agencies and community partners, and support water resource management projects. The role combines fieldwork, scientific analysis, stakeholder engagement, and project coordination.

Leads statewide development, implementation, evaluation, and expansion of a culinary school-meals program using local foods. Coordinates partners, culinary experts, training logistics, budgets, communications, outreach, and approximately 70 annual trainings. Assesses community needs, evaluates outcomes, prepares reports, improves program systems, and represents the initiative at meetings and events. Requires regular travel throughout New York State, including weekly day trips and overnight travel several times monthly.

Supports Cornell Athletics’ Corporate Partnerships team by identifying and engaging prospective local businesses, conducting outreach, coordinating meetings, maintaining records, and assisting with partnership activations. Provides administrative and scheduling support while building relationships with businesses and community organizations. This temporary, onsite role is expected to work fewer than 19 hours weekly through December 31, 2026.

Coordinates undergraduate course scheduling, instructional assignments, curriculum administration, and teaching program support for the Department of Romance Studies. Collaborates with faculty and department leaders, maintains course and teaching information, supports daily administrative processes, and helps resolve program-related issues. Requires strong organization, communication, proofreading, data-review, and stakeholder-engagement skills, with experience using Microsoft Office and student services systems.

Processes F-1 and J-1 immigration documents, including Forms I-20 and DS-2019, as a Designated School Official and Alternate Responsible Officer. Maintains student records in SEVIS and Sunapsis, supports initial processing and status activation, resolves document-processing discrepancies, and assists with reporting, compliance training, and administrative projects. The position is temporary, part-time, and may be in-person, hybrid, or remote.

Provides comprehensive financial services for university programs, including accounting, transaction management, procurement oversight, student appointments, fund management, financial analysis, and compliance. Advises faculty, researchers, staff, and students; resolves complex financial issues; prepares financial statements; and supports audit compliance and internal controls. The role requires handling confidential data, managing multiple priorities, and working collaboratively in a hybrid university environment.

Coordinates global video-content projects for Merlin Bird ID, including contributor recruitment and training, dataset collection and annotation, quality review, partner engagement, software testing, release coordination, and educational outreach. The role requires advanced bird identification expertise, strong project and relationship management, familiarity with eBird, Merlin, and the Macaulay Library, and collaboration with machine learning and software teams.

Provides high-level administrative support to research centers, including calendar management, travel coordination, procurement, invoicing, financial transactions, grant documentation, reporting, and event planning. Serves as a primary administrative contact for assigned centers, coordinates meetings and programs, maintains records, and supports directors, managers, faculty, and staff in a hybrid university environment.

Develop and maintain complex Ruby on Rails applications with relational database backends. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, system design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, integrations, code reviews, application upgrades, user support, and collaboration with project managers, analysts, QA specialists, and stakeholders. The role also guides technical decisions and contributes to project planning and software specifications.

Design, develop, and maintain complex web applications, APIs, database applications, and related services. Contribute to scalable cloud infrastructure and hosting platforms, integrate application infrastructure, and support technical strategy. Develop with Java, Spring, SQL, and enterprise GIS technologies while documenting and testing code. Participate in Agile workflows, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, and provide occasional off-hours support through a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Develops and sustains climate-data tools, products, and services for regional decision-making. The role transforms satellite, in situ, radar, and paleoclimate data into user-focused applications, supports operational transitions, and collaborates with NOAA scientists, universities, and stakeholders. Responsibilities include coding, testing, web development, data analysis, visualization, communication of technical findings, and ongoing support for climate center activities.

Entry-level Investment Analyst supporting a $13+ billion university endowment. Responsibilities include investment analysis, underwriting, due diligence, portfolio construction, valuation, quantitative modeling, risk and performance analysis, manager relationship evaluation, and investment monitoring across multiple asset classes. The three-year program offers broad exposure to institutional portfolio management and supports pursuit of the CFA and another professional credential.

Provides analytics, reporting, administrative, and communications support for a university media relations team. Monitors media inquiries, maintains outreach and media coverage metrics, manages analytics tools, tracks daily mentions, distributes media scans, prepares performance reports, cleans data, and identifies trends. The role is full-time and primarily onsite in Ithaca, New York, with limited hybrid flexibility.

Cultivates and manages employer partnerships recruiting Cornell engineering students and graduates. Identifies prospective employers, conducts outreach, advises partners on inclusive university recruitment strategies, tracks engagement in CRM systems, and collaborates with career services, academic departments, and student organizations to expand job postings, recruitment, and hiring activity.

Provides technical and operational support for animal behavior and bioacoustics research. Responsibilities include planning field and laboratory studies, collecting behavioral and acoustic data, maintaining specialized equipment, coordinating permits and compliance documentation, managing laboratory operations, and training undergraduate researchers. The role also ensures laboratory safety, chemical handling, waste disposal, and disease-control protocols are followed. Work is primarily onsite with fieldwork, occasional travel, variable schedules, and hands-on outdoor research conditions.

Provides high-level administrative and executive support to Cornell IT leadership, including calendar coordination, meeting and event logistics, travel arrangements, procurement, recruitment support, communications, onboarding, facilities coordination, and confidential information management. The role requires strong organization, customer service, judgment, communication, and Microsoft 365 proficiency, with hybrid on-campus work at least three days per week.

Design, develop, and maintain dimensional data models, data warehouses, and data marts. Translate business requirements into scalable data structures, build fact and dimension tables, perform SQL development, ETL/source-to-target mapping, data profiling, testing, and validation. Collaborate with stakeholders, mentor peers, and ensure data quality and alignment with enterprise architecture.

Develop and improve Cornell’s enterprise identity and access management services, including authentication, authorization, directory services, integrations, automation, and incident response. The role provides technical leadership, develops applications and middleware, supports mission-critical production systems, documents designs, conducts code reviews, and collaborates with stakeholders, vendors, and IT teams. This remote, two-year appointment requires periodic travel to Ithaca, New York.

Provides financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, compliance monitoring, reporting, internal-control support, and data-driven decision support for Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences. Manages specialized financial processes and distributions while collaborating with academic departments, faculty, research administrators, HR, central offices, and college leadership. Interprets policies and regulations, monitors sponsored and university funds, and supports accurate financial stewardship across multiple priorities.

Provides administrative and technical support for law student records, enrollment and bar certification requests, course data, examinations, and proctor coordination. Maintains confidential records, prepares verifications, reports, statistics, and surveys, responds to inquiries, supports exam administration, and updates Registrar’s Office webpages. Requires strong organization, attention to detail, judgment, multitasking, and customer service skills in a fast-paced, fully onsite university environment.