Jobs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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.

Provides administrative and graduate student support for the Mechanical and Materials Engineering department, including student tracking, TA and RA assignments, payroll, exams, thesis milestones, events, purchasing, scheduling, correspondence, expense processing, and department communications. Coordinates with faculty, students, staff, and campus offices; manages calendars, access requests, work orders, and records; supports accreditation materials and provides backup administrative coverage.

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.

Leads government and community relations by developing engagement strategies, monitoring legislation, advocating policy positions, ensuring lobbying compliance, and building partnerships with officials, civic groups, nonprofits, businesses, and educational stakeholders. Oversees community outreach, advocacy campaigns, stakeholder engagement, external communications, executive briefings, and crisis communications. Represents the organization at public meetings and events while aligning government and community initiatives with institutional goals.

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.

Assists with designing, purchasing, configuring, installing, testing, troubleshooting, maintaining, and supporting campus audiovisual systems. Provides AV service desk support to faculty, students, and staff; coordinates digital signage administration; supports training and high-profile campus events; manages installations within budget; and collaborates with vendors and campus technology staff.

Lead enrollment growth marketing strategy and execution across multichannel campaigns and CRM-enabled nurture programs to drive awareness, inquiries, and student pipeline growth. Manage a two-person team, oversee partnerships and experiential recruitment, optimize performance using analytics, attribution, and AI tools, and collaborate with Admissions and campus stakeholders to meet institutional enrollment goals.

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.