Assistant Professor - Computational Linguistics

Job no: 543038
Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track
Location: San José

Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as established by the CSU Salary Schedule. Anticipated hiring academic year annual salary range: $ 92,000 - $ 95,000.

Faculty employee benefits are very competitive for the higher education sector. See the CSU Employee Benefits Summary for details about the CSU’s excellent benefits package.

Target Start Date: August 18, 2025

Application Deadline: November 15, 2024 (Applications accepted until filled or closed)

The Department of Linguistics and Language Development at San José State University is pleased to announce a search for an assistant professor position in computational linguistics beginning in August 2025. The successful candidate will become part of a growing department building computational linguistics expertise, and would have the opportunity to teach courses in computational linguistics and general linguistics.

SJSU is the only CSU campus in northern California with a dedicated linguistics department, founded in 1991. Situated in the Bay Area—among the most diverse regions in the world—the Department is committed to fostering understandings of language structure and use in the context of an increasingly multicultural and technological society. The Department is further dedicated to exploring societal inequities, how language contributes to those, and how such inequities may be alleviated through research, scholarship, and practice. Find out more about our department at www.sjsu.edu/linguistics.

The Department administers a BA degree in linguistics and a brand new MS in computational linguistics. In collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, the Department also offers a BS degree in computer science and linguistics. More broadly at SJSU, the university is embarking on a major multi-pronged AI initiative, and the College of Humanities and the Arts has opened a new center, the Advanced Institute for Ethical Technologies, whose aim is aims to develop a transdisciplinary approach to technology that integrates the insights, values, and practices of the humanities/arts as well as the human/social sciences with the knowledges and skills of science/engineering. The ideal candidate would be invested in collaboration with other members of the college and/or University around issues of ethical technologies. 

For a complete job description and to apply: https://jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/543038/assistant-professor-computational-linguistics?1ApplicationSubSourceID=11266

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