Massachusetts Institute of Technology in United States invites application for vacant Postdoctoral Positions, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25271Mechanical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Oct 20, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Mechanical Engineering, to perform cutting-edge research on projects centered around machine learning models for Computer Aided Design and Engineering Design in the Design Computation and Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) laboratory at MIT under the guidance of Dr. Faez Ahmed (https://decode.mit.edu). Will be responsible for researching, designing, and developing novel methods a…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25313Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Full-Time Nov 17, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) – Howland Lab, is a one-year Postdoctoral Scholar position supported in part by the flagship MIT Climate Grand Challenge project “Preparing for a new world of weather and climate extremes,” a project which is co-lead by the Howland Lab and will join a collaborative group of Postdoctoral, PhD, SM, MEng, and un…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25211Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Full-Time Sep 18, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), to join an interdisciplinary research team focused on the market analysis of solid carbon in the construction materials sector; will assess the market dynamics, material compatibility, and performance limits of solid carbon incorporation in concrete, asphalt, steel, and soil amendment; conduct a thorough review of commercialized an…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25294Chemistry Science Full-Time Temporary Nov 4, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Chemistry, to join the laboratory of Prof. Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); work on projects related to the design, synthesis, and photophysical properties of near-infrared absorbing and emitting dyes for bioimaging and optoelectronic materials; conduct advanced synthetic techniques, including small-scale work, inert-atmosphere synthes…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25296Chemistry Science Full-Time Temporary Nov 4, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Chemistry, to join the laboratory of Prof. Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); work on projects related to small-molecule activation; conduct synthetic methods that involve stoichiometric, catalytic, photocatalytic, or electrochemical bond activation strategies and advanced chemical synthesis and various characterization methods, includin…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25295Chemistry Science Full-Time Temporary Nov 4, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Chemistry, to join the laboratory of Prof. Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); work on projects related to the design, synthesis, and photophysical properties of helicenes, nanographenes, graphene nanoribbons, or other arene-rich supramolecular architectures; conduct advanced synthesis of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and various cha…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25314Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Nov 17, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to join a team to conduct research in support of the newly awarded Army Research Office sponsored Program to develop an Equation of State and Constitutive Thermodynamic and Transport Relations of 3He, 4Heand 3He-4He mixture; and systematically develop equations of state and thermodynamic constitutive relations for the heliums (3He an…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25173Center for International Studies Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-time (Hybrid) Sep 4, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE (2 positions), Center for International Studies (CIS), to conduct policy-relevant research in global development. Will advance research on international, transnational, comparative, and global issues, and involves collaboration with faculty and graduate students. Areas of interest include global challenges such as climate adaptation, environmental degradation, artificial int…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25200Lab for Information & Decision Systems Schwarzman College of Computing Full-Time Sep 15, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and Sloan School of Management in collaboration with The Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC), will focus on generative AI and reasoning through the lens of social and ethical responsibilities of computing; provide supervision and guidance to students, and researchers while engaging in activities that…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25148Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences Science Full-Time Oct 28, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, to work with the Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA), a multi-disciplinary team spanning MIT, Caltech, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, focused on developing a next-generation, GPU-based climate model that learns physics from data to improve the accuracy of its projections. Will collaborate with oceanographers, mathemati…
Postdoctoral AssociateJob Number: 25310Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Nov 12, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to carry out fundamental and applied research in support of integrated core and edge MHD instability control for metallic wall tokamaks; work in the Disruptions group and focus on the application and controllability quantification of real-time solutions for avoiding and preventing off-normal events, e.g. tearing and neoclassical tear…
Postdoctoral Associate, Policy ImpactsJob Number: 25261Economics Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Nov 5, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, POLICY IMPACTS, Economics, to conduct economic analysis on the welfare impacts of government policies; be part of Policy Impacts, an organization co-founded by Professor Hendren that is dedicated to improving the quality of government decision-making by promoting standardization in policy analysis; and work closely with Nathaniel Hendren and a range of collaborators at othe…
Postdoctoral Associate, Dorkenwald LabJob Number: 25250McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Oct 6, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, DORKENWALD LAB, McGovern Institute for Brain Research – Dorkenwald laboratory, to develop computational reconstruction, analysis, and modeling approaches for connectomics datasets. The lab develops computational approaches to reconstruct, analyze, and model large-scale connectomes, aiming to uncover organizational principles of neuronal circuits and how circuit struct…
Postdoctoral Associate, Stark LabJob Number: 24315Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Oct 28, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Koch Institute (KI) for Integrative Cancer Research-Stark Lab, to lead cutting-edge projects to better understand cancer immunology and develop new immunotherapies. To accomplish this, lab projects involve approaches from molecular and synthetic biology, immunology, glycobiology, and biological engineering. Experimental approaches used in the lab include cloning/molecular b…
Postdoctoral Associate, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary SciencesJob Number: 25213Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences Science Full-Time Sep 18, 2025POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, to join a team focused on developing an early warning system for climate tipping points in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre (SPG) as part of the POLEMIX program, funded by the Forecasting Tipping Points initiative. This role involves integrating autonomous profiling observations with the ECCO (Estimating the Circulation and Clima…
Technical Associate I, Feng LabJob Number: 25117McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Sep 30, 2025TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, Feng Lab (2), McGovern Institute for Brain Research, to join our team to study neurobiological mechanisms of brain disorders that will lead to effective treatment; use a variety of molecular, cellular, biochemical, genetic, imaging and behavioral approaches to assist graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and research scientists in generating and studying various animal mod…
Research ScientistJob Number: 25007MIT Energy Initiative VP Research Full-Time Aug 28, 2025RESEARCH SCIENTIST 2, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), will conduct and lead techno-economic analyses (TEA) and life cycle assessments (LCA) associated with key energy transition challenges and technologies in fields such as low-carbon fuels, hydrogen carriers, industrial process decarbonization, carbon management, and energy storage; will collaborate with researchers at MITEI and across MIT to prov…
Human Resources Administrator 1, SRSJob Number: 25199Research Laboratory of Electronics VP Research Full-Time Oct 22, 2025HUMAN RESOURCES ADMINISTRATOR 1, SRS, Research Laboratory of Electronics, supports a dynamic interdisciplinary research lab with over $70M in annual expenditures, providing responsive and knowledgeable execution of moderately complex HR activities; advises faculty and managers on recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, HR policies, and personnel records; manages academic and non-academic HR t…
Technical Associate I, HistologyJob Number: 25201Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Sep 16, 2025TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, HISTOLOGY, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research-Histology Core Facility, to provide technical support for wide-ranging approaches being taken in cancer research and across the MIT research community; employ both routine and specialized histology techniques; utilize both routine and specialized techniques in research area; conduct standard and/or specialized lab tec…
Presidential Teaching Fellow, New Education Initiative (NEI)Job Number: 25230MIT Open Learning Office of Provost Full-time (Hybrid) Sep 29, 2025PRESIDENTIAL TEACHING FELLOW, NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVE (NEI), MIT Open Learning (multiple openings across disciplines), to help design and deliver innovative, stackable courses leading to bachelor’s degrees in engineering with computing/AI; develop digital content, flipped classroom materials, assessments, and co-op experiences; contribute to MIT’s Faculty Academy to train educat…
