The Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University has multiple open faculty positions at all ranks (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor), beginning academic year 2027-28 or 2028-29. The tenure home for the positions will reside in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, with a potential joint appointment in another Northeastern college, to be determined in consultation with the successful candidates. Academic rank at the Associate Professor and Full Professor levels will be commensurate with experience and qualifications reflecting a record of demonstrated teaching and scholarly excellence.

We will consider candidates across all areas of computer science, whose research connects to the following sub-areas of AI.

Physical AI: Designing AI systems that sense, reason and act within real-world environments. Areas of interest include machine perception and multimodal sensing, embodied and egocentric AI, world models and planning, wearable and interactive systems, robot manipulation and mobility, multi-agent systems and safe human-robot collaboration, and assistive and rehabilitation technologies for clinical, home, and community settings.

Human-centered AI: Designing, building, and evaluating interactive AI systems that augment human agency, creativity, collaboration, while accounting for their societal, cognitive, and economic impacts. Areas of interest include human-AI interaction, co-creation and AI-supported work; human control over generative and agentic AI systems; human-centered explainability and decision-making; community-centered technologies as well as critical AI for the public good. We welcome a broad range of research approaches.

AI and software engineering: Studying software engineering, programming languages, and formal methods for the robustness, performance, correctness, and security of code generated by AI or interacting with AI. Areas of interest include the coordination and validation of concurrent AI agents acting on shared code at ecosystem scale, and the engineering of AI-based systems.

AI safety, security and alignment: Ensuring that increasingly capable AI systems remain safe, reliable, interpretable, and aligned with human intent. Areas of interest include formal foundations of alignment, scalable AI oversight and control, interpretability, adversarial robustness, auditing and red teaming AI models, formal verification of AI systems, provenance of AI-generated content, privacy-preserving learning, agentic AI security and privacy, and cryptographic techniques for AI security.

We will begin reviewing applications as soon as they are received, starting November 15, 2026, and continuing through the academic year until the search is completed.

Note that the job application form will ask candidates to upload all documents in My Experience, and then individually under Application Question 3. We will deduplicate and review all documents uploaded, regardless of which question they are uploaded to. If you have any questions during the job application process, please do not hesitate to email khoury-hiring@northeastern.edu.

Faculty members at Northeastern are expected to develop independent research programs that attract external funding; teach courses at the graduate and undergraduate level; supervise students and postdocs in their area of research; and participate in service to the department, university, and discipline. Candidates interested in conducting high-impact research programs and committed to teaching excellence are encouraged to apply. Senior candidates must have a distinguished track record in research and an established history of grant support or industry research, with the potential for strong leadership in their research field.

Candidates must hold a PhD in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited institution by their appointment start date. We encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds, including academia and industry.