Assistant Professor, NeuroAI

💼 Full-time📍 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA🌐 Remote

EMPLOYER: Carnegie Mellon University, Neuroscience Institute

LOCATION: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

TYPE: Full-Time, Tenure-Track

START DATE: July 1, 2027

APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 1, 2026 (full consideration, open until filled)

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent in neuroscience, machine learning, robotics, computer science, cognitive science/psychology, electrical engineering, or related field
• Evidence of research excellence and potential for leadership
• Commitment to high-quality teaching and mentoring
• Substantive connection to neuroscience through data, theory, or modeling
  
  

Research Areas

• Generative models of brain data
• AI-based analysis tools for neural activity or connectivity
• Explainable AI grounded in cognitive/neuroscience principles
• Human-AI alignment
• Normative agentic models of animal behavior
• Mechanistic models of memory or learning in neural networks
• Descriptive models of invariant representations and dynamics
• Embodiment in natural and artificial systems
  
  

Responsibilities

• Establish visible, externally funded research program
• Teach and mentor in Neuroscience Institute
• Recruit and supervise masters and PhD students
• Contribute to curricular innovation including new masters program in neural technologies
  
  

About Cmu Neuroai

Vibrant collaborative environment leveraging world-class research in machine learning, AI, robotics, cognitive and systems neuroscience, neurotechnology, data science, engineering, and biological sciences. Joint appointments common. Collaboration with industry encouraged.

APPLY: https://apply.interfolio.com/189695 (see posting for correct link)