Assistant Professor - Electrical Engineering: ASIC, SOC, AI/ML Hardware & Embedded Systems Design

  

Position Rank and Title: Tenure-track Assistant Professor

School/Department Name: Engineering/Electrical Engineering

Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as established by the CSU Salary Schedule. Anticipated hiring academic year annual salary range: $104,000 -  $120,000

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: Extended to March 2, 2025

Position Description

The Department of Electrical Engineering at San José State University (SJSU) is pleased to announce a search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the areas of ASIC, SOC, AI/ML Hardware & Embedded Systems design beginning in August 2025. The incumbent will be required to teach undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering courses and ideally should have research in the above areas. Located in the center of Silicon Valley, the Department of Electrical Engineering at SJSU has established a firm goal to provide a high-quality electrical engineering education to its students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The department offers classroom instruction by the best-qualified EE faculty, hands-on experience in industry-sponsored state-of-the-art laboratories, and opportunities for industry internships. The department has over 550 undergraduate and 250 graduate students.

Both EE undergraduate and graduate programs support students to obtain professional experience while taking classes. In conjunction with their classes, many students work as Instructional Student Assistants and Teaching Associates in the department and EE interns in the Silicon Valley firms. Our graduates enjoy excellent career opportunities in a broad spectrum of theoretical and practical areas such as device physics, micro and nano electronics, analog electronics, integrated circuits, communications, signal processing, network and network security, mobile network, power electronics, energy systems, microprocessors and computer systems, embedded systems, control, robotics, autonomous systems, machine learning and deep learning, quantum information and quantum computing. The Department of Electrical Engineering website is at www.sjsu.edu/ee/.

The Department of Electrical Engineering and San José State University value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Our excellence in research, teaching, and service can only be fully realized by faculty, students, and staff who share our commitment to these values. SJSU enrolls more than 36,000 students, many of whom are historically underserved, and around 45% are first-generation and 38% are Pell-recipients. SJSU is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander (AANAPISI) Serving Institution. The university’s commitment to social justice extends from its vibrant, inclusive campus to an international network of over 275,000 alumni. As such, San José State is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty so our disciplines, students, and the community can benefit from multiple ethnic and gender perspectives.

Successful candidates will demonstrate evidence of a commitment to equity and inclusion through their research, teaching, and/or service. We ask that all applicants include a Diversity Statement with their application package. A guide to writing this statement can be found at SJSU Diversity Statement Guidelines, along with information about how these statements will be evaluated.

Required Qualifications

• Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science by the start of the appointment.
• Applicants must have a research background in Embedded Systems, ASIC and SOC design.
• Applicants must have a strong commitment and demonstrate potential of teaching excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and to engage in curriculum development.
• Applicants should demonstrate an awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a socially and economically diverse student population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and other comparable experience.