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Assistant Professor | Tenure-Track
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo is seeking exceptional candidates for one tenure (research) stream position in Geotechnical Engineering at the rank of Assistant Professor with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2027.
For this position, evidence of an actively developing research program is required. Research in the specialization areas of energy geotechnics, soil structure interaction, geomechanics, deep geological waste repositories, permafrost engineering, or mining will be viewed favorably. In addition, experience and aptitude in experimental and/or field-based research methods will also be viewed favorably in the selection process. Duties will include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, research including supervision of graduate students, and service efforts to support the University operation. The ability to develop and teach an array of traditional and on-line courses is required.
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Posted 10 / 22 / 2026
Assistant Professor | Tenure-Track
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo is seeking exceptional candidates for one teaching stream position in Geotechnical Engineering at the rank of Assistant Professor with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2027.
Applicants must also have demonstrated an interest in engineering education pedagogy, and preference will be given to candidates who have demonstrated exceptional teaching skills. The expected teaching duties will include courses for students in our civil, environmental, geological, and architectural engineering programs, such as CIVE 353 – Geotechnical Engineering 1, AE 353 – Soil Mechanics and Foundations, CIVE 354 – Geotechnical Engineering 2, and CIVE 554 – Geotechnical Engineering 3, to name a few examples.
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Posted 10 / 22 / 2026
Assistant Professor | Tenure-Track | Advanced Computational Geotechnics
The Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in geotechnical engineering with expertise in advanced computational geotechnics. The candidate’s research should address innovative computational methods for analyzing, modeling and predicting the behavior of geotechnical systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.
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Posted 10 / 15 / 2026
Professor
The Geosystems Engineering (GEO) program seeks forward-thinking faculty who are advancing the frontiers of the field in areas such as multiphysics and multiscale studies of coupled processes in geomaterials, mining geoengineering, engineered geomaterials, sensing and continuous monitoring, data-driven design, energy geoengineering, climate-adaptive coastal geotechnics, and planetary geotechnics.
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Posted 9 / 10 / 2026