# Assistant Professor

Job Description The Department of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of August 10, 2027. We seek an outstanding candidate whose research advances artificial intelligence in chemical engineering, broadly defined. The successful candidate will establish an innovative, externally funded research program; contribute to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education; and collaborate across engineering, computing, and sciences. The search is intentionally broad within AI for chemical engineering research. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: · High-throughput experimentation, including automated data acquisition, analysis, and decision-making · AI and machine learning for energy, sustainability, climate, and chemical manufacturing · AI-guided discovery, design, synthesis and characterization of chemicals and hard- or soft-materials · AI-enabled research at the interfaces of chemical engineering, chemistry, materials science, biology, medicine, and human health · Laboratory robotics, closed-loop experimentation, and autonomous or self-driving lab

- **Id**: 3157393
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/virginia-tech-assistant-professor-2>
- **Role**: Education
- **Role family**: Education
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Blacksburg, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T10:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-23
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T21:31:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7004
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Higher Education

## Company

- **Id**: 35633
- **Name**: Virginia Tech
- **Domain**: vt.edu
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/virginia-tech-news>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: PageUp

## Salary

- **Min**: 115000
- **Max**: 130000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 130000

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-23T14:58:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 58
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.803
- **P room**: 0.72
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 74
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:mid, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 130000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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