Jobs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Manages daily athletics department operations, financial administration, procurement, payroll, student employment, budgets, compliance, and departmental systems. Coordinates NCAA championship submissions, event operations, team trip payments, and special projects across varsity athletics, recreation, and wellness education. Serves as the primary administrator and trainer for Teamworks platforms while supporting accurate records, staff onboarding, communications, and efficient cross-departmental processes.

Manages daily operations for a university STEM Education Center, including office administration, stakeholder communications, scheduling, records, student assistants, purchasing, invoices, contracts, budgets, newsletters, websites, marketing materials, and events. The role monitors accounts, supports Workday financial processes, coordinates conferences and visitor logistics, and serves as program manager for a regional STEM network.

Supports institutional decision-making through dashboard development, data integration, validation, visualization, institutional analysis, and higher education market research. The analyst communicates findings through reports and presentations, collaborates with campus stakeholders, improves reporting processes and data quality, and develops materials that promote data literacy and effective use of institutional information.

Provides administrative and academic program support for a university physics department. Responsibilities include maintaining course materials and records, supporting graduate programs, coordinating events, managing communications and web content, assisting with TA and PLA scheduling, serving as a receptionist, supervising work-study students, taking meeting minutes, and maintaining office supplies and departmental archives.

Leads the Talent Strategy Partner team and advises university leaders on workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, change management, employee and labor relations, and talent programs. Oversees complex employee matters, union relations, policy compliance, investigations, and organizational assessments while managing an assigned departmental portfolio. Coaches team members, partners with Talent Acquisition and Learning & Development, analyzes workforce trends, and ensures consistent HR service delivery and legal compliance.

Designs, delivers, and evaluates university-wide learning and development programs, including leadership development, manager training, onboarding, professional development, and succession planning. Facilitates learning for diverse audiences, manages the LMS and required training, analyzes engagement and program data, and supports talent, organizational development, inclusion, and retention initiatives. Partners with leaders, HR stakeholders, vendors, and consultants while coordinating program logistics and continuous learning strategies.

Develop machine learning and agentic AI methods for chemical and environmental engineering applications. Build hybrid physics- and data-driven models, digital twins, autonomous workflows, and predictive, optimization, regression, surrogate, and uncertainty quantification models for reaction and process systems. Collaborate with chemical engineers and conduct research involving scientific machine learning, process simulation, mechanistic modeling, and AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Supports undergraduate program administration in a chemistry and biochemistry department. Responsibilities include student services, clerical operations, record maintenance, academic forms and reports, meeting coordination, communications, event support, and maintaining department websites, email lists, and social media platforms.

Provides administrative, academic program, financial, project center, event, website, communications, and office support for a university department. Responsibilities include scheduling meetings and courses, maintaining confidential records and websites, coordinating events and facilities, supervising student workers, processing expenses and invoices, supporting grants and hiring, preparing reports, and assisting faculty, students, and department leadership.

Teach eight studio arts courses annually, advise student projects, develop curriculum, and contribute to Humanities and Arts initiatives. The professor will teach varied studio media, support introductory and advanced courses, cultivate relationships with local arts organizations, and help supervise art studio facilities and programming. Candidates must demonstrate university-level teaching and advising experience, exhibition or project development experience, and professional artistic practice. The role emphasizes accessibility, sustainability, health, safety, and engagement with contemporary technological methods.

Manages budgeting, fiscal tracking, auditing, payroll, travel, purchasing, vendor payments, reconciliations, and financial records for Global School study abroad programs. Advises program directors on budgets and compliance, monitors spending, supports hiring and payment processes, coordinates with university offices, and provides training and reporting for a portfolio supporting a multimillion-dollar operation.

Tenured Associate or Full Professor leading biomedical engineering research and teaching, with emphasis on modeling and simulation for engineered human health. The role requires collaboration across departments, recruitment and mentoring of faculty, and contributions to BME strengths including biomechanics, biomaterials, tissue engineering, disease modeling, robotic surgery, biomanufacturing, and bioMEMS. The professor will also advance interdisciplinary research, technology translation, and inclusive biomedical design.

Teach electrical and computer engineering courses, advise students, and supervise student projects within WPI’s project-based curriculum. The role requires teaching excellence across a broad range of ECE topics, such as power and renewable energy systems, RF circuits, microelectronics, signal processing, communications, digital circuit design, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence. The professor will contribute to WPI’s collaborative academic environment and support multidisciplinary student learning.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Applied AI for Mechatronics and Controls. Teach undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering courses, build an externally funded research program, and apply AI/deep learning to mechatronics, control, intelligent sensing, perception, and cyber-physical systems. Collaborate with the Robotics Engineering Department and pursue multidisciplinary applications such as autonomous systems, smart health, and advanced manufacturing.

Leads the university’s systems engineering organization, overseeing servers, storage, virtualization, cloud platforms, middleware, DevOps automation, infrastructure operations, and campus safety technology. Develops strategy, manages staff, budgets, vendors, compliance, security, backup and recovery, lifecycle planning, and major incident response. Partners with IT, application owners, information security, campus police, facilities, and external providers to maintain reliable, secure, and resilient technology services.

Lead strategic, academic, and operational direction of the Business School: grow enrollment, oversee curriculum and accreditation, recruit and support faculty, manage a $7M+ budget and staff, expand research and industry partnerships, drive fundraising, and represent the school within university leadership.

Provide administrative support to the Aerospace Engineering Department (60%) and the School of Engineering (40%), including scheduling, event coordination, facilities and vendor liaison, onboarding, travel and expense processing, website and social media updates, reception duties, and marketing communications support.