Massachusetts Institute of Technology in United States invites application for vacant (191) Postdoctoral and Academic Positions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology in United States invites application for vacant Postdoctoral and Academic Positions, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

 LecturerApply NowSave

Job Number: 21925

Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Part-Time Oct 31, 2022

LECTURER, Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) (part-time, 75%), to teach three fundamental courses in anthropological archaeology to undergraduate students, most of whom have had modest or no preparation in cultural anthropology or archaeology.  Two of the courses are core subjects required by the B.S. curriculum for undergraduates majoring in Archaeology and Materials.  These are I…

 Technical Associate I, Tsai LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 22061

Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Science Full-Time Oct 31, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory-Tsai Lab, to assist with research on the effects of neurodegeneration on neuronal activity and cognition in various mouse models. Duties include rodent stereotaxic surgery, in-vivo electrophysiology, fiber photometry, and/or optogenetic experiments in awake mice. The project also involves brain dissections, histology, and confocal micr…

 Research Scientist, Ribbeck LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 22056

Department of Biological Engineering Engineering Full-Time Oct 31, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Biological Engineering, to lead and coordinate a DoD-funded multidisciplinary university research initiative, launched in September 2022, that combines state-of-the-art mucin biochemistry, metabolomics, microbiology, and physiologically relevant intestinal organoid technology.  Will work with external collaborators across multiple institutions.  Responsibilities inclu…

 Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 21420

Nuclear Science and Engineering Engineering Full-time (Hybrid) Oct 31, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Nuclear Science and Engineering-Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES), to conduct computational research through modeling and simulation in the area of nuclear energy systems and techno-economic assessment of advanced technologies, with a specific focus on reactor design and safety.  While based within the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, CANES p…

 Lab Coordinator, Langer LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21600

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Oct 28, 2022

LAB COORDINATOR, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research-Langer Lab, to coordinate various activities in support of the largest biomedical engineering lab at MIT and its researchers. Will–under the supervision of the lab manager–ensure compliance with established lab standards and practices. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with all regulatory reporting requirements–human and…

 Technical Associate II, Flow CytometryApply NowSave

Job Number: 21569

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Oct 28, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE II-FLOW CYTOMETRY CORE FACILITY, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, to provide support for over 160 groups engaged in cancer and other research across MIT.  Responsibilities include operating and maintaining flow cytometer analyzers and sorters, including daily quality control and data management; engaging with researchers to design experiments, training in in…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 22046

Mechanical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Oct 28, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Mechanical Engineering (MechE), to join the Mechatronics Research Lab. The group aims to develop next-generation precision instruments for nanoscale 3D printing of technorganic materials for medical applications. Building upon years of research on scanning probe microscopes and collaboration with experts on self-assembly materials, a first-stage proof-of-concept p…

 Instrumentation EngineerApply NowSave

Job Number: 22043

Center for Transportation & Logistics Engineering Full-Time Oct 27, 2022

INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEER, Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)-AgeLab, to work with research staff and software engineers in support of naturalistic and simulated advanced driving technology research.  Will be responsible for the maintenance and development of custom data acquisition equipment and the flow of data from acquisition through various stages of post-processing (local an…

 Mathematics LecturerApply NowSave

Job Number: 22010

Concourse Chancellor’s Full-Time Oct 27, 2022

MATHEMATICS LECTURER, Concourse, to teach the first year mathematics curriculum in calculus, multi-variable calculus, and differential equations, including coordinating topics, homework sets, exams, etc., with other lecturers in the program to support an integrated educational experience.  Will also participate in a weekly program seminar, student advising, program review, and other activitie…

 Purchasing AssistantApply NowSave

Job Number: 22026

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Oct 27, 2022

PURCHASING ASSISTANT, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), to procure laboratory animals for MIT researchers by handling all matters pertaining to their ordering, receipt, shipment, and payment; and provide administrative support for DCM’s accounting functions.  Will serve as the sole animal procurement person for MIT.  Animal purchasing duties include reviewing request for labo…

 Medical TechnologistApply NowSave

Job Number: 22034

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Oct 27, 2022

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), to join DCM’s animal resource program and provide support for operation of the diagnostic lab, with an emphasis on microbiology.  DCM provides veterinary and clinical care for animals used in biomedical research at MIT and conducts NIH-funded research.  Will support the lab manager with lab operations and perform a wide …

 Technical Associate IApply NowSave

Job Number: 20272

Center for Biomedical Innovation Engineering Full-Time Temporary Oct 26, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE 1, Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI), to join CBI’s efforts to optimize production of biotherapeutic drugs such as monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, viral vectors, and cell therapy products in its end-to-end continuous bioreactor testbeds. Continuous manufacturing approaches are of great academic and industrial interest because they promise to greatly increase process…

 Veterinary Technician, Large AnimalApply NowSave

Job Number: 21769

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Oct 25, 2022

VETERINARY TECHNICIAN, LARGE ANIMAL, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), to assist veterinarians with all aspects of marmoset colony and health management.​ Duties include assisting with tracking and ensuring the accuracy of breeding colony census data; composing new breeding groups; participating in health checks and facility rounds; infant monitoring and care; assisting veterinarians with ul…

 Veterinary Surgery TechnicianApply NowSave

Job Number: 20853

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Oct 25, 2022

VETERINARY SURGERY TECHNICIAN, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), to work closely with veterinarians and animal care staff to provide exceptional animal care.  Responsibilities include serving as a liaison between the veterinarians and research laboratory personnel; assisting with the veterinary medical care of laboratory animals and performing daily clinical rounds to evaluate animals f…

 Veterinary TechnicianApply NowSave

Job Number: 21049

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Oct 25, 2022

VETERINARY TECHNICIAN, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM) (two openings), to provide clinical veterinary support for animals (primarily mice) housed at MIT and provide colony management and technical services. Specific duties include completing daily clinical rounds; assessing and monitoring the health of laboratory animals and reporting necessary information to supervisors, the clinical veter…

 Research Support Associate 2Apply NowSave

Job Number: 22028

Political Science Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Oct 24, 2022

SENIOR RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, Political Science, to coordinate the research and teaching-related needs of four professors in the fields of comparative politics and political philosophy. Responsibilities will include assisting with research by compiling literature reviews, case studies, and memos; proofreading work; collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data; and preparing data visualizations fo…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 22009

Comparative Media Studies/Writing Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Oct 21, 2022

POSTDOCTORIAL LEARNING DESIGNER, Comparative Media Studies/Writing-MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program (MIT-STEP), to design high school project-based learning geometry math curricula.  Responsibilities include designing and developing two high school math project-based learning geometry units; maintaining a design collaborative of researchers, learning designers, educators, and students; …

 Radio Science EngineerApply NowSave

Job Number: 22015

Haystack Observatory VP Research Full-Time Oct 20, 2022

RADIO SCIENCE ENGINEER, Haystack Observatory-Atmospheric-Geospace Sciences Group, to participate in developing instrumentation for Geospace radar and radio science systems which remotely sense the near-Earth space environment.  The Geospace group operates the Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar system, a large, powerful radar used for studying the upper atmosphere and its dynamics.  …

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 22013

Haystack Observatory VP Research Full-Time Oct 20, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Haystack Observatory, to work closely with radio science researchers on the investigation and development of novel signal processing and computational techniques for sensing and mitigating radio frequency interference.  The goal of this work is to enable geospace and astronomy sensors to remain robust and operational in current and future interference environments.&nbs…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Manalis LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21424

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Oct 19, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, to assume a position at the interface of novel instrumentation for single-cell analysis and gene therapy in the Manalis Lab (MIT) in collaboration with the Sinskey (MIT, Biology) and Braatz (MIT, Chemical Engineering) labs.  The project is aimed at understanding how the biophysical characteristics of cells change when the…

 Nanofabrication Processing EngineerApply NowSave

Job Number: 22002

Research Laboratory of Electronics VP Research Full-Time Oct 18, 2022

NANOFABRICATION PROCESSING ENGINEER, Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)-Quantum Photonics Group, to join a group creating the materials and devices underpinning next-generation quantum technologies such as spin-photon gates. A leading quantum information processing platform consists of diamond color centers which have enabled demonstrations of deterministic remote entanglement and large-scal…

 Research Associate, MIT Resilient Communities LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21996

Center for Advanced Urbanism Architecture & Planning Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Oct 18, 2022

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P)-Center for Advanced Urbanism-MIT Resilient Communities Lab (RCL), to join a team working on sustainable solutions for climate change adaptation that integrates traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and STEAM as part of a collaboration with Native Land Conservancy, the North American Indian Center of Boston, and GreenRoots.  The g…

 Chemical Engineering Practice School Station DirectorApply NowSave

Job Number: 22000

Chemical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Oct 18, 2022

PRACTICE SCHOOL STATION DIRECTOR, Chemical Engineering (ChemE), to coordinate and lead Chemical Engineering Practice School engagement at companies hosting teams of graduate-level MIT students pursuing master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering Practice (M.S.CEP). Students are engaged at the companies as technical consultants for projects selected by the station steering committee in consulta…

 Senior Research Support AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21999

Economics Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Temporary Oct 18, 2022

SENIOR RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, Economics, to work with a group of faculty on both administrative and research-related projects that may include statistical analysis of data. Will assist with research through locating information, proofreading works, and preparing tables for papers in the process of publication; and assist in the fielding of experiments and surveys. General administrative respo…

 Pre-doctoral Research FellowApply NowSave

Job Number: 21995

Economics Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Oct 17, 2022

PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW, Economics, to join Professor Tobias Salz and support work at all stages of the research process on projects in the field of industrial organization, with particular emphasis on digital markets and transportation markets.  Will help build code for mathematical models of various markets, such as online platforms and transportation markets.  Specific responsibi…

 Research Technician, BioMicro CenterApply NowSave

Job Number: 21661

Biology Science Full-Time Temporary Oct 17, 2022

RESEARCH TECHNICIAN, Biology-MIT BioMicro Center, to join a highly collaborative technical team supporting a broad range of biological research projects in cancer, infectious disease, environmental health, and other topics in basic and applied biology. Will focus on providing service and support for a variety of cutting-edge, high-data content technologies including next-generation sequencing and …

 Technical Associate I, Vos LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20806

Biology Science Full-Time Temporary Oct 17, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, Biology-Vos Lab, to join a new research team studying the how gene expression and genome architecture are coupled. The work will involve protein expression, protein purification, molecular cloning, insect cell culture work, and structure determination.  Will also assist with lab organization, including database management, training new members, and reagent maintenance. …

 Research Support ProfessionalApply NowSave

Job Number: 21983

Nuclear Reactor Laboratory VP Research Full-Time Oct 14, 2022

RESEARCH SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL, Nuclear Reactor Lab (NRL), to be responsible for a wide range of experimental assembly, record-keeping, quality assurance, and data-taking activities supporting the primary mission of the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory.  Responsibilities include the physical assembly of instrumented experimental capsules, including detailed record-keeping of associated components an…

 Research FellowApply NowSave

Job Number: 21971

Economics Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Temporary Oct 13, 2022

RESEARCH FELLOW, Economics (3 openings), to work directly with Professor Nathaniel Henren on research topics in applied micro-economics and empirical welfare analysis.  Will be part of Policy Impacts, an organization founded by Professor Hendren, that is dedicated to improving the quality of government decision-making by promoting standardization in policy analysis.  Topics likely i…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21980

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Temporary Oct 13, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to carry out fundamental and applied research on the DIII-D and SPARC tokamaks, two novel and powerful fusion experiments. The work will focus on the implementation of a passive, 3D “Runaway Electron Mitigation Coil” (REMC) in both DIII-D and SPARC. The REMC will be triggered by high voltages (>1 kV) and carry high cur…

 Research Scientist/Engineer – Senseable Intelligence GroupApply NowSave

Job Number: 21950

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Oct 13, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER, McGovern Institute for Brain Research-Senseable Intelligence Group, to join a team that is investigating new ways of exploring, integrating, and disseminating knowledge of cell atlases relating cell types and function in brain research across species. Will lead projects that are developing novel methods for knowledge representation, investigating new models for extract…

 Research Scientist/Engineer, Senseable Intelligence GroupApply NowSave

Job Number: 21438

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Oct 13, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER, McGovern Institute for Brain Research-Senseable Intelligence Group, to tackle challenging problems at the intersection of brain science, neuroinformatics, and machine learning. Will join world-class neuroscientists and cognitive scientists in consortial projects to create novel approaches for knowledge extraction and representation, develop new ways of conducting colla…

 Research Scientist, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) CenterApply NowSave

Job Number: 20383

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Oct 13, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, McGovern Institute for Brain Research-K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center, to pursue a creative, collaborative research program developing new statistical and machine learning tools to analyze unique large, multiscale datasets obtained here using cutting-edge methods in molecular, circuit, and behavioral neuroscience and cognition. Will join world-…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Observational Astrophysics and Computational ScienceApply NowSave

Job Number: 21969

Kavli Inst for Astrophysics & Space Rsrch Science Full-Time Temporary Oct 12, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, OBSERVATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI), to work in the areas of observational astrophysics and computational science related to exoplanets and transient astrophysics under the direction of Dr. George Ricker, the PI of MIT-led Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and participate in the dis…

 Technical Associate I, AbuGoot LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21974

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Temporary Oct 12, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, McGovern Institute for Brain Research-AbuGoot Lab (2 openings), to help develop molecular tools, cell engineering technologies, and novel cell reprogramming approaches. Specific projects will include discovery and characterization of novel enzymes for gene therapy and cell engineering. Projects will involve molecular cloning, protein purification, and mammalian cell cul…

 Quantum Network EngineerApply NowSave

Job Number: 20760

Research Laboratory of Electronics VP Research Full-Time Oct 12, 2022

QUANTUM NETWORK ENGINEER, Research Laboratory of Electronics-Quantum Photonics Group, to develop quantum network testbed in the Boston area. Core competencies are in system-level engineering for the Boston-area quantum network testbed.  There will be a special focus on engineering system design, optoelectric control, photonic integrated circuits, packaging and interfaces, high-speed analog fe…

 Norbert Wiener Postdoctoral Fellowship in StatisticsApply NowSave

Job Number: 21970

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Schwarzman College of Computing Full-Time Temporary Oct 12, 2022

NORBERT WIENER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN STATISTICS, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS)-Statistics and Data Science Center, to perform independent research in statistics and lead activities within IDSS.  Fellows will be matched with a faculty member in the Statistics and Data Science Center who will provide career advice and serve as a mentor.  

 Technical Associate I, Flow CytometryApply NowSave

Job Number: 21968

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Oct 11, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I-FLOW CYTOMETRY CORE FACILITY, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, to provide support for over 160 groups engaged in cancer and other research across MIT. Will be responsible for operating and maintaining flow cytometer analyzers and sorters, including daily quality control and data management; supporting scheduling needs; collaborating with team members on problem…

 Senior Technician ElectronicApply NowSave

Job Number: 21873

Haystack Observatory VP Research Full-Time Oct 11, 2022

SENIOR TECHNICIAN ELECTRONIC, Haystack Observatory, to assist with the operations, assembly, repair, and maintenance of radar and radio receivers, control systems, antenna systems, computers, data networks, and high power microwave transmitters. Duties will include all phases of assembly, test, debugging, and maintenance in the areas of analog, digital, RF, microwave electronics, and fiber optic n…

 Research Scientist/Imaging Scientist, CryoEMApply NowSave

Job Number: 21078

Biology Science Full-Time Temporary Oct 11, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST/IMAGING SCIENTIST, CRYOGENIC ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (CryoEM), Biology, to enhance research capabilities in cryogenic sample preparation, electron microscopy, and image analysis by supporting a diverse user community with experimental design and execution.  The CryoEM facility’s instrumentation includes two cryo-microscopes, an Aquilos cryo-FIB/SEM, and various vitrificat…

 Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) TechnicianApply NowSave

Job Number: 21079

Biology Science Full-Time Temporary Oct 11, 2022

CRYOGENIC ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (Cryo-EM) TECHNICIAN, Biology, to help the CryoEM team in MIT.nano with the day-to-day operations of its multiuser facility.  Responsibilities include working with researchers to prepare cryogenic specimens of a variety of biological and non-biological samples using standard and emerging vitrification and electron microscopy techniques; operating and maintaining…

 Senior Research Support AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21956

Economics Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Temporary Oct 7, 2022

SENIOR RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, Economics, to join Blueprint Labs, a growing team of professionals devoted to using data, economics, and analytic tools to generate insights to uncover the consequences of policy choices and improve society.  Will report directly to the operations manager and indirectly to assigned faculty to support both administrative and research-related needs. Specific r…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21001

Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences Science Full-Time Temporary Oct 6, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, to conduct research in Wanying Kang’s research group.  The research is related to work on ocean dynamics and ocean-ice interaction on icy satellites. Since icy moons are one of the most promising targets for life detection beyond earth, the group is trying to understand how potential biosignatures may be transported by o…

 Postdoctoral Associate-Climate Communications and EngagementApply NowSave

Job Number: 20780

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative VP Research Full-Time Oct 6, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE-CLIMATE COMMUNICATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), to deepen the scholarship of ESI’s climate change journalism activities and facilitate its climate journalism fellowship program.  Will play a key role in advancing ESI’s climate communications research agenda and lead its scholarly work around local climate journalism, resu…

 Postdoctoral Associate, AbuGoot LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21948

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Oct 5, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, to join the Abudayyeh-Gootenberg Lab and develop genome editing, gene therapy, and cellular engineering methods for exploring and treating models of aging in the blood and brain.  Will apply novel genome editing and transcription factor-based tools for understanding the mechanisms of rejuvenation and cellular reprogrammi…

 Technical Associate I, Langer LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20864

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Temporary Oct 3, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research-Langer Lab (multiple openings), to join a multidisciplinary group of researchers and staff who support initiatives focused on developing clinically-relevant solutions to human diseases.  Will participate in preclinical development of drug delivery devices/materials, sensors, and their application in vivo.  Respons…

 Research Support Associate 2Apply NowSave

Job Number: 21940

Research Laboratory of Electronics VP Research Full-Time Oct 3, 2022

RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE/LABORATORY TECHNICIAN, Research Laboratory or Electronics (RLE)-Bioelectronics Group, to join a lab working at the interface of materials science, electronics, and neurobiology with the goal of advancing the understanding and treatment of disorders of the nervous system. The lab designs and fabricates multifunctional optoelectronic fiber probes that manipulate and record…

 Learning Scientist, Assessment DesignApply NowSave

Job Number: 21934

Comparative Media Studies/Writing Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Temporary Oct 3, 2022

LEARNING SCIENTIST, ASSESSMENT DESIGN, Comparative Media Studies/Writing-MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program (MIT-STEP), to design and research assessments for high school project-based learning math curricula as part of an interdisciplinary team. Responsibilities include designing, testing, and conducting research on assessments for project-based learning math units; working with a design coll…

 IT Systems AdministratorApply NowSave

Job Number: 21929

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Sep 30, 2022

IT SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR, Division of Comparative Medicine, to coordinate the administrative activities required to support network, server configuration, hardware and software installation, maintenance, support, documentation, and operating procedures; ensure availability, reliability, and continuous productivity of the computing environment; and keep DCM up-to-date with new technology. Responsib…

 Assistant Director for Large Animal Medicine and Surgery – VeterinarianApply NowSave

Job Number: 21770

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Sep 30, 2022

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR LARGE ANIMAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY-VETERINARIAN, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), to oversee and participate in all aspects of the medical and surgical care of a variety of large animal species.  Will join twelve other veterinarians in fulfilling DCM’s mission to provide the best in animal care and collaborative research support. Will lead DCM’s surger…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21926

Mechanical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Temporary Sep 29, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Mechanical Engineering (MechE), to join Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio’s research group which aims at developing tools for predicting the effect of context on genetic circuits and on their composition, in cell free, bacterial, and mammalian systems. Approaches merge physics-based models with data-driven approaches such as (recurrent) neural networks. The ultimate goal is t…

 Research Support Associate 2, Chisholm LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21923

Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Sep 29, 2022

RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE 2, Civil and Environmental Engineering-Chisholm Lab, to join a multidisciplinary group studying the ecology of the marine microorganism Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthetic cell on the planet. The research team focuses on studying this microbe from the genome level to whole ocean scales, using integrative systems biology approaches. Will assist team members …

 Pre-doctoral Research FellowApply NowSave

Job Number: 21722

Economics Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Sep 29, 2022

PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW, Economics (multiple openings), to join the research team of Professor Amy Finkelstein.  Responsibilities include working with data sets, cleaning and running checks to spot errors, and generally preparing data for analysis; assisting with onboarding new staff and maintaining project documentation; and assisting with literature reviews, new and renewal institution…

 Technical Associate I, Choi LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21588

Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Science Full-Time Sep 27, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, CHOI LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to join a group that is dedicated to developing novel genetic techniques for neuroscience. Responsibilities will include DNA cloning, immunohistochemical processing, performing various biochemical and molecular biology techniques, confocal microscopy, mouse handling, surgery, behavioral testing, and other wet-laboratory wo…

 Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow/Research AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21874

J-PAL North America Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Sep 26, 2022

PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (2 openings), to join the research team of Professor Amy Finkelstein, focusing on randomized evaluations, including studying the effect of expanding public health insurance and analyzing the impacts of healthcare hotspotting on super-utilizers. Responsibilities include working with data sets; analyzing data; and assis…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Design Computation and Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) LaboratoryApply NowSave

Job Number: 21852

Mechanical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Sep 23, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Mechanical Engineering, to perform cutting-edge research on projects centered around deep generative models and geometric deep learning for engineering design in the Design Computation and Digital Engineering (DeCoDE) laboratory at MIT under the guidance of Dr. Faez Ahmed.  Will be responsible for researching, designing, and developing novel methods and …

 Technical Associate I – Colony Manager/Study CoordinatorApply NowSave

Job Number: 21904

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Sep 23, 2022

COLONY MANAGER/STUDY COORDINATOR, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, to coordinate the animal research study needs for a dozen researchers who work collaboratively to better understand the genetic underpinnings of brain disorders and manage a large breeding colony of common marmosets to support that work.  The marmoset breeding colony at MIT is a state-of-the-art resource for the generati…

 Technical Associate I, Heldt LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21871

Institute for Medical Eng. and Science Engineering Full-Time Sep 22, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, HELDT LAB, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), to join a dynamic team of MIT investigators in a lab that focuses on data acquisition, signal processing, and mathematical modeling of physiological systems to support real-time decision making and monitoring of disease progression.   Responsibilities include collecting data from human subjects, …

 Research Scientist, Digital Currency InitiativeApply NowSave

Job Number: 21882

Media Lab Architecture & Planning Full-time (Hybrid) Sep 19, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, DIGITAL CURRENCY INITIATIVE DCI, Media Lab, to join a team of researchers and staff who bring together global experts to take on challenges in cryptocurrency and digital currency design.  Responsibilities include Blockchain economic security research; evaluating proof of work versus proof of stake along economic and technical dimensions; proof of work economic security res…

 Research Specialist, Irvine LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21271

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Sep 19, 2022

RESEARCH SPECIALIST, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research-Irvine Lab, to support the daily operations of a research laboratory consisting of twenty-five-plus graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and technicians and assist with protein production. Technical tasks will include assisting lab members with primary research as needed to explore new ideas or help bring ongoing projects …

 Bioengineering and Life Science Postdoctoral Associate, Strano Research GroupApply NowSave

Job Number: 21881

Chemical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Sep 19, 2022

BIOENGINEERING AND LIFE SCIENCE POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Chemical Engineering-Strano Research Group, to develop new and groundbreaking methods to reveal the neuromodulator spatiotemporal dynamics in the retina.  The insights gained from this project will aid in the understanding of how brain states such as wakefulness and mood adjust the retinal function according to human behavioral needs. Wi…

 Research Scientist, Interactive Robotics Group (IRG)Apply NowSave

Job Number: 21865

Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering Full-Time Sep 16, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro)-Interactive Robotics Group (IRG), to collaborate with researchers to develop and deploy robotics applications to control manipulator and mobile robots; assist with developing and maintaining core sensing and control systems for robotic mobile and manipulation platforms; develop infrastructure to maintain and expand onboard sensing capabi…

 Education and Outreach SpecialistApply NowSave

Job Number: 21858

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Sep 15, 2022

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH SPECIALIST, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), to oversee and implement a comprehensive education and outreach program for DCM employees and the research community who work with animal models.  Will develop content for training sessions and educational outreach (i.e., DCMtv, ecourses, in-person training); participate in the planning of classroom instruction, electr…

 Engineering Technician AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21841

Center for Transportation & Logistics Engineering Full-Time Sep 15, 2022

ENGINEERING TECHNICIAN ASSOCIATE, Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)-Age Lab, to support naturalistic driving research on vehicle automation. Will work with hardware/software engineers building, calibrating, and managing data acquisition systems and the resultant data. Key responsibilities will include assembling data recording devices (soldering, 3D printing, etc.), calibrating devic…

 Research Associate for JTL Urban Mobility/Transit LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21855

Urban Studies & Planning Architecture & Planning Part-Time Sep 15, 2022

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE FOR JTL URBAN MOBILITY/TRANSIT LAB, Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) (part-time, 60%), to manage and run sponsored research programs and advise graduate students on related projects.  Responsibilities include managing the research group’s contracts and deliverables with research sponsors (e.g., public transit agencies, industry consortia); writing and publishing indu…

 Postdoctoral Associate (Educational Research)Apply NowSave

Job Number: 21491

Mechanical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Sep 14, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE (EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH), Mechanical Engineering (MechE)-Learning Engineering and Practice (LEAP) Group, to help lead new manufacturing engineering education projects by carrying out education research, creating impactful instructional content, and crafting engaging digital learning experiences. Will take a leadership role on various projects, including the research and develo…

 Software EngineerApply NowSave

Job Number: 21591

MIT Quest for Intelligence Schwarzman College of Computing Full-Time Sep 14, 2022

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, MIT Quest for Intelligence (multiple openings), to work as part of the Quest Systems Engineering Team to engage with interdisciplinary research groups across MIT to determine requirements, iterate on architectural specifications, and produce robust and scalable systems that meet identified needs in biological and artificial intelligence research.  Past projects include a Mo…

 Technical Associate I – Kanwisher LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21836

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Sep 13, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, to join the Kanwisher Lab and help conduct research on the functional organization of the human brain using fMRI, (occasional) intracranial recording, magnetoencephalography, eye tracking, behavior, and other methods. Responsibilities include assisting with all aspects of research, including designing and programming experiments; conduc…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Niles LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21823

Department of Biological Engineering Engineering Full-Time Sep 9, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Biological Engineering, Niles Lab, to conduct research applying advanced genetic technologies in malaria drug discovery projects. Projects will seek to establish early-stage genetic and chemical validation for selected targets, towards prioritization into drug discovery pipelines.  Will use CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing tools to create and characterize tran…

 Research Laboratory Operations Manager, Yaffe LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21571

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Sep 3, 2022

RESEARCH LABORATORY OPERATIONS MANAGER, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research -Yaffe Lab, to assist the principal investigator (PI) in managing research lab operations.  Responsibilities include managing and developing new systems and processes to help improve lab operations: procuring and maintaining laboratory equipment and laboratory supplies; maintaining and organizing reage…

 Postdoctoral Associate – Yaffe LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20352

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Sep 3, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE-YAFFE LAB, Koch Institute (KI) for Integrative Cancer Research, to work in the area of glioblastoma treatment through DNA damage signaling, protein kinases, R-loop dynamics, and genotoxic therapeutics. The work involves a combination of CRISPR-based high-throughput screens and follow-up analysis of specific signaling pathways, DNA repair, and tumor responsiveness using human…

 Postdoctoral Associate, BiomechatronicsApply NowSave

Job Number: 21801

Media Lab Architecture & Planning Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Sep 2, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, BIOMECHATRONICS, Media Lab, to conduct research into the mechatronic design of computer-controlled leg prostheses, including ankle-foot and knee prostheses. Will conduct research on the design, development, and evaluation of novel prosthetic leg technologies, including mechanical, electrical, control, and industrial design aspects; design and implement research projects, ga…

 Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 21599

Nuclear Reactor Laboratory VP Research Full-Time Sep 2, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (2 openings), to be responsible for advanced nuclear fuel and materials testing and simulation. This involves working with facilities related to the MIT nuclear reactor and campus-wide equipment to perform material testing and characterization. Will also perform neutronic and finite element analysis to support the development and execution of irradiat…

 Associate Director for Clinical and In Vivo Research ServicesApply NowSave

Job Number: 21771

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Aug 26, 2022

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR CLINICAL AND IN VIVO RESEARCH SERVICES, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), to serve as attending veterinarian for and leader of animal services within DCM.  Will aid the director of DCM with formulating and maintaining its clinical mission, take primary responsibility for managing and coordinating the implementation of this mission, and aid the director in outreach…

 Domain Expert Imaging/Metrology/CharacterizationApply NowSave

Job Number: 21531

MIT.nano VP Research Full-Time Aug 26, 2022

DOMAIN EXPERT IMAGING/METROLOGY/CHARACTERIZATION, MIT.nano, to provide characterization equipment oversight and support.  Responsibilities include sample handling and preparation for metrology, imaging, and analysis; operation of characterization and preparation equipment; providing training for facility users; overseeing the scheduler to assure accurate records of equipment utilization; supp…

 Technical Associate I – Neuroscience Feng LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21768

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Aug 25, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, NEUROSCIENCE FENG LAB, McGovern Institute for Brain Research (2 openings), to work in the laboratory of Professor Guoping Feng. Professor Feng is leading a large collaborative effort to use marmosets as model animals for the study and treatment of complex brain disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.  Will primarily be responsible for monitoring anesthesia duri…

 Technical Associate I – Feng LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21767

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Aug 25, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, FENG LAB, McGovern Institute for Brain Research (2 openings), to join a team studying the neurobiological mechanisms of brain disorders that will lead to effective treatment.  Will use a variety of molecular, cellular, biochemical, genetic, imaging, and behavioral approaches to assist graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and research scientists with generating and s…

 Research Laboratory Project ManagerApply NowSave

Job Number: 20208

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Aug 24, 2022

RESEARCH PROGRAM MANAGER, McGovern Institute for Brain Research-Feng Lab, to manage the scientific operations of a neuroscience research laboratory engaged in studies of neurobiological mechanisms of synapse and circuit development and dysfunction in brain disorders. Responsibilities include serving as primary contact and resource for all laboratory staff; participating in and/or overseeing the la…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21763

Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Full-Time Aug 24, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)-Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub), to conduct research, create tools, develop educational materials, and participate in implementation projects on life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle cost analysis (LCCA), and asset management of pavements and pavement networks. One research topic will focus on developing streamlined LCA and LC…

 MIT Postdoctoral Associate, Brain Stimulation and Recording in-Vivo in MiceApply NowSave

Job Number: 21180

Media Lab Architecture & Planning Full-Time Temporary Aug 22, 2022

MIT POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, BRAIN STIMULATION AND RECORDING IN-VIVO IN MICE, Media Lab (multiple openings), to develop extremely miniaturized micro-nano-devices that probe and modulate our biological system especially the brain  Will configure and implement these devices for brain stimulation and recording, characterize and validate the devices in cultured neurons, inject or implant the devic…

 Computational Technical Associate I – Open MindsApply NowSave

Job Number: 21743

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Temporary Aug 19, 2022

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I-OPEN MINDS, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, to help researchers tackle challenging problems at the intersection of brain science and artificial intelligence.  Will join world-class neuroscientists and cognitive scientists in solving some of today’s most exciting computational research problems and apply software engineering or system administration s…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Gabrieli LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21728

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Aug 19, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Brain and Cognitive Sciences-Gabrieli Lab, to be responsible for conducting neuroimaging research in cognitive neuroscience and computational psychiatry. Responsibilities include the design, implementation, and analysis of a multi-modal MRI project aimed at understanding brain predictors of response to treatment for social anxiety d…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21731

Mechanical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Temporary Aug 18, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Mechanical Engineering (MechE), to join the research group of Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio.  Professor Del Vecchio’s group is developing a number of bacterial genetic controllers for a variety of applications, including bacterial co-culture stabilization, growth rate regulation, and neutralization of competition in CRISPRi/a systems.  Seek a self-motivate…

 Electrical EngineerApply NowSave

Job Number: 21725

Kavli Inst for Astrophysics & Space Rsrch Science Full-Time Temporary Aug 18, 2022

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI), to support several research groups with characterizing and developing scientific CMOS (sCMOS) imaging sensors and cameras for use in future ground- and space-based astronomical instruments. MKI has provided optical/near-IR imaging and spectroscopic instrumentation for the Magellan 6.5m telescopes and Transiting Exoplan…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21721

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Aug 17, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to work in the area of experimental fusion plasma and stability physics research. The research will primarily focus on the DIII-D tokamak, a cornerstone element in the U.S. fusion program strategy and in view of advanced ITER operations.  Emphasis will be placed on the analysis of model and data uncertainties for real-time appli…

 Senior Engineer, Lifelong KindergartenApply NowSave

Job Number: 21715

Media Lab Architecture & Planning Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Aug 17, 2022

SENIOR ENGINEER, LIFELONG KINDERGARTEN (LLK), Media Lab, to set strategy and manage the development and maintenance of the LLK group’s educational technology projects which engage millions of young people and educators around the world. Will plan engineering strategy and technology systems for the Lifelong Kindergarten group’s global educational projects and creative learning initiativ…

 Software EngineerApply NowSave

Job Number: 21716

Jameel Clinic for ML in Health Schwarzman College of Computing Full-Time Aug 17, 2022

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), to play a key role in developing an open-source community to harness contributions from the broad artificial intelligence (AI) and medical IT community to translate AI advances from the Jameel Clinic into clinical care; develop integrations to ingest data from hospital systems; and efficiently deploy AI tools.  J…

 Research Scientist, Nucleic Acid Observatory (Molecular Biology/Assay DevelopmentApply NowSave

Job Number: 21692

Media Lab Architecture & Planning Full-time (Hybrid) Aug 16, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, NUCLEIC ACID OBSERVATORY (MOLECULAR BIOLOGY/ASSAY DEVELOPMENT), Media Lab, to co-lead research and development of wastewater monitoring laboratory methods related to the Nucleic Acid Observatory (NAO) project for early detection of future pandemics. The NAO aims to build metagenomic monitoring systems to reliably detect novel disease agents spreading in the human population and…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21711

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Aug 15, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to join the MIT Phase Contrast Imaging (PCI) project at DIII-D at General Atomics.  PCI is an imaging interferometer that provides an absolutely calibrated, wide bandwidth, spatially resolved measurement of density fluctuations and has been used to measure turbulence and related transport as well as MHD modes and ICRF wave propa…

 Technical Associate II, Love LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21703

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Aug 12, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE II, STRAIN GENERATION AND CHARACTERIZATION, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research-The Love Lab, to enable and execute experiments on microbial strain development.  Will apply current techniques in synthetic and molecular biology to develop research methods, suggest options for improving quality, and recommend solutions for the expansion of current expressible prot…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 20861

Center for Biomedical Innovation Engineering Full-Time Temporary Aug 10, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI), to develop innovative processes for viral vector production as part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary team at the forefront of gene therapy vector production.  MIT CBI is developing new, intensified production processes for viral vector manufacturing using the baculovirus expression system and the insect cell line Sf9 to prov…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Physics (LANPh)Apply NowSave

Job Number: 21687

Nuclear Science and Engineering Engineering Full-Time Aug 9, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Nuclear Science and Engineering-Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Physics (LANPh) (2 openings), to work on groundbreaking research in the area of nuclear physics applied to problems in nuclear security such as arms control, cargo security, and nuclear detection. The principal duties include contributing to existing projects at LANPh in leading/coleading roles’ guiding graduate…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21686

Center for Global Change Science Science Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Aug 8, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Center for Global Change Science, to join an international team of experimentalists and theoreticians in the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) and a large atmospheric chemistry group at MIT.  The work will focus on interpretation of AGAGE observations of greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases using models, measurements, and inverse methods. Additional …

 Postdoctoral Associate, Climate-System Modeling Within Integrated Human-Earth System Model FrameworkApply NowSave

Job Number: 21684

Center for Global Change Science Science Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Aug 8, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, CLIMATE-SYSTEM MODELING WITHIN INTEGRATED HUMAN-EARTH SYSTEM MODEL FRAMEWORK, Center for Global Change Science, to work in the area of climate and Earth-system modeling within the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.  Will join a multidisciplinary team of researchers studying environmental impacts as well as physical and transition risks of glo…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21679

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Aug 8, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to conduct research in the areas of fusion neutronics. The research focuses on advancing the state of the art for benchmark problems for DT tokamaks using the SPARC tokamak facility.  Will be responsible for maintaining complex CAD models of the SPARC facility for neutron transport simulations, working with researchers and techn…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21673

Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering Full-Time Aug 5, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Aeronautics and Astronautics, to conduct independent research on wavefront control for high-contrast imaging.  Responsibilities will include advancing the state of the art in exoplanet direct imaging by developing and testing new techniques for wavefront sensing and control for future NASA flagship missions; performing simulations and statistical analyses of these new …

 Veterinary Technical Services ManagerApply NowSave

Job Number: 21598

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Aug 1, 2022

VETERINARY TECHNICAL SERVICES MANAGER, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), to administer the veterinary technical services program at MIT.  Will be responsible for the oversight and management of a team of approximately twenty veterinary technicians and services that cover ten facilities housing a wide variety of species, including mice, swine, and nonhuman primates.  Duties include …

 Technical Associate I, Pentelute LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21647

Chemistry Science Full-Time Temporary Aug 1, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE 1, Chemistry, to join the laboratory of Professor Bradley L. Pentelute.  Will apply methodologies and established protocols to rapidly synthesize and purify peptides and protein chains using an automated flow technology invented in the research group; ensure the maintenance of three automated flow peptide synthesizers currently installed in the laboratory; and manage …

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21632

Political Science Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Jul 29, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Political Science, to join a National Science Foundation-funded computational social science research project with Professor In Song Kim.  The project focuses on using computational methods to examine special interest group politics and trade politics in the U.S.  Responsibilities include analyzing lobbying and campaign donation data and developing/maintaining a l…

 Research Fellow, Blueprint LabsApply NowSave

Job Number: 21613

Economics Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Temporary Jul 27, 2022

RESEARCH FELLOW, Economics (multiple openings), to join Blueprint Labs, a growing team of professionals devoted to using data, economics, and analytic tools to generate insights to uncover the consequences of policy choices and improve society.  Will support research on Blueprint’s workforce, healthcare, and education initiatives, working closely with one or more of its sirectors or co-…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21628

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Temporary Jul 27, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, DISRUPTION RESEARCH, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to work in the area of computational fusion plasma and stability physics research. The research will primarily focus on the SPARC tokamak, a novel and powerful instrument designed to be the world’s first net-energy fusion experiment.  Will lead the development of a root cause analysis workflow for plas…

 Senior Research Support Associate, Nedivi LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20958

Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Science Full-Time Jul 25, 2022

SENIOR RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (2 openings), to join the neuroscience research laboratory of Professor Elly Nedivi.  The primary duty will be to participate in research under the direction of the laboratory head and a postdoctoral associate, including the execution of experiments and collection and organization of data.  This position is id…

 Digital Learning Lab Fellow, Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (AI+DM)Apply NowSave

Job Number: 21568

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Engineering Full-Time Jul 25, 2022

DIGITAL LEARNING LAB FELLOW, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DECISION MAKING (AI+DM), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), to oversee and lead the running of one or more of the AI+DM courses that comprise the MicroMasters program. Responsibilities include contributing to the development, revamping, and management of AI+DM MicroMasters courses (which span probability, statistical data a…

 Technical Associate II, Love LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21601

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Jul 22, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE II, PROTEIN ANALYTICS AND CHARACTERIZATION, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research-Love Lab, to enable and execute experiments focused on analyzing recombinant proteins.  Responsibilities include protein quantification and characterization following cultivation, including SDS-PAGE, Western blot, BLI, endotoxin quantitation ELISA, and BCA; operating and maintaining …

 Technical Associate I, Langer LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20743

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Jul 22, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research-Langer Lab (multiple openings), to join a multidisciplinary team developing injectable drug delivery systems for vaccines and small molecule therapeutics.  The project will focus on developing drug delivery materials for the sustained or pulsatile release of small molecule drugs or vaccines. Responsibilities will inclu…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Bringing Computation to the Climate Challenge (BC3)Apply NowSave

Job Number: 21597

Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences Science Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Jul 21, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), to join the Bringing Computation to the Climate Challenge (BC3) flagship project, a collaborative effort between faculty across many MIT departments and scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science (Department of Global Ecology, Stanford) and the National Oceanography Center (NOC; Southampton, UK).  Will develop the …

 Postdoctoral Associate, Bottom Boundary Layer Turbulence (BLT)Apply NowSave

Job Number: 21596

Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences Science Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Jul 21, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, to join the Bottom Boundary Layer Turbulence (BLT) project, a multi-institutional team of theoretical, numerical, and observational oceanographers spanning MIT, Whole Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and National Oceanographic Center in Southampton UK.  The MIT group argued that the waters that…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA)Apply NowSave

Job Number: 21595

Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences Science Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Jul 21, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, to join the Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA), a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and applied mathematicians spanning MIT, Caltech, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  Will collaborate with the MIT team to develop the ocean component of a new climate model in the Julia programming language that is flexibl…

 Computational Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 21577

Department of Biological Engineering Engineering Full-Time Jul 19, 2022

COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Biological Engineering-Fraenkel Lab, to design, develop, and test a cognitive engine for metabolomics as part of the data science and engineering team. Technological advances in the acquisition of biological data have resulted in an explosion of information in the structured and unstructured data realms. Given the number of research studies in any given area, it i…

 Technical Associate I/Data EngineerApply NowSave

Job Number: 21576

Department of Biological Engineering Engineering Full-Time Jul 19, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I/DATA ENGINEER, Biological Engineering, to join the research group of Professor Ernest Fraenkel and participate in the development of computational and experimental approaches to understanding human biology. Computational integration of multi-omics data enables them to reconstruct signaling pathways and identify previously unrecognized regulatory mechanisms. This integration e…

 Technical Associate I/Data ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 21575

Department of Biological Engineering Engineering Full-Time Jul 19, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I/DATA SCIENTIST, Biological Engineering, to implement, design, and build supervised and unsupervised algorithms to predict human performance in behavioral, cognitive, and physical tasks from their molecular features as part of the data science and engineering team within the Fraenkel Lab. Technological advances in the acquisition of biological data over the past decade have re…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21581

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Jul 18, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to conduct research in the area of impurity transport at the DIII-D tokamak. Will perform research on DIII-D in the areas of impurity transport, plasma turbulence, and core/edge transport modeling as part of the ongoing collaboration between MIT and General Atomics; operate the laser blow-off (LBO) system at DIII-D to perform cutting…

 Postdoctoral Fellow-IcoN FellowshipApply NowSave

Job Number: 20262

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Jul 15, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW-IcoN FELLOWSHIP, McGovern Institute for Brain Research-K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center (2 openings), to develop multiscale neural circuit models or data analysis techniques bridging molecular, circuit, behavioral neuroscience, cognition, and machine learning. Will join world-class neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and engineers in solving …

 Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Vision and Machine LearningApply NowSave

Job Number: 21556

Media Lab Architecture & Planning Full-time Temporary (Hybrid) Jul 13, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Media Lab-Camera Culture Group, to join a highly collaborative team of faculty and researchers focusing on computational vision and machine learning in the broad areas of 3D imaging, NERF, high level vision, supervised learning, reinforcement learning, health imaging, and novel computational sensors.  Will perform independent research in areas that …

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21542

Comp Sci & Artificial Intelligence Lab Schwarzman College of Computing Full-Time Jul 11, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), to join the Algorithmic Alignment Group.  Will work alongside collaborators at DeepMind and the Cooperative AI Foundation to lead the design and implementation of a large-scale Cooperative AI contest to take place next year at a major AI conference. The work is expected to be highly important and influent…

 Accelerator Laboratory EngineerApply NowSave

Job Number: 21541

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Jul 11, 2022

ACCELERATOR LABORATORY ENGINEER, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, to maintain, upgrade, and operate scientific and engineering equipment (e.g., ion accelerators, neutron generators, linear plasma devices and ancillary systems) located in the NW13 accelerator laboratories (and related equipment in PSFC laboratories); and operate scientific equipment (e.g. tensile testers, furnaces, SEM, EDX machin…

 RF Research Scientist, Magnetic Fusion Energy GroupApply NowSave

Job Number: 21529

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Jul 7, 2022

RF RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)-Magnetic Fusion Energy Group, to assume position in radio frequency (RF) heating and current drive physics and technology.  The group’s core mission is to develop the RF physics and technologies to enable efficient heating and current drive to accelerate the development of fusion energy.  The application of RF power to …

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21516

Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Full-Time Temporary Jul 5, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), to join the Howland and Eltahir labs on an MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium-funded project. Will join both research groups with joint mentorship from professors Howland and Eltahir.  The proposed research project is focused on assessing the risk to energy systems from regional climate change.  As energy generat…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21507

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Jun 30, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to conduct research in the area of pulsed-power driven electro-hydraulic rock fracturing.  The research is focused on delivering a new pulsed-power device which will be used by collaborators at MIT in support of an ARPA-E OPEN award led by Eden Geopower.  Will design, construct, commission, and operate a new compact pulsed-…

 (Senior) Research AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21490

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-time (Hybrid) Jun 28, 2022

(SENIOR) RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), to support J-PAL’s mission to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Will write publications that “translate” economic research into lessons for policymakers around the world; support senior staff in creating materials for policy outreach, including publications, e…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21487

Nuclear Science and Engineering Engineering Full-Time Jun 27, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Nuclear Science and Engineering, to develop a software/hardware framework to scale NAA (neutron activation analysis) for measuring heavy metal concentrations in a large number of environmental samples. The framework includes the automation of measurements and sample preparation as well as machine learning methods for automated gamma-ray spectral identification and uncertain…

 LecturerApply NowSave

Job Number: 21477

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Engineering Full-Time Temporary Jun 24, 2022

LECTURER, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), to perform the duties of a lecturer, with a focus on analog, digital, and mixed-signal electronic circuits and systems.  There will be full-time participation in educational activities during the academic terms (fall, Independent Activities Period (IAP), and spring).  Course assignments will include some of the following …

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21459

MIT Energy Initiative VP Research Full-Time Jun 22, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), to join a project investigating ammonia production and utilization.  Will work with MITEI research scientists Dr. Emre Gençer, Dr. Dharik Mallapragada, and Dr. Guiyan Zang.  The project will develop Aspen models to simulate various ammonia production pathways and the utilization of ammonia for power generation. Will regularly …

 Research Scientist – Open MindApply NowSave

Job Number: 20196

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Temporary Jun 21, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST – OPEN MIND, McGovern Institute for Brain Research (2 openings), to tackle challenging problems at the intersection of brain science and artificial intelligence. Will join world-class neuroscientists and cognitive scientists in applying machine learning, AI, and data science skills to cutting-edge research on the brain and mind.   Responsibilities include helping resea…

 K-12 Educational TechnologistApply NowSave

Job Number: 21434

Comparative Media Studies/Writing Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Temporary Jun 15, 2022

K-12 EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIST, Comparative Media Studies/Writing-MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP)/Education Arcade, to join a highly collaborative team.  Will assume two primary roles:  1) curating existing resources and co-creating original computing curriculum for integration into grades 5-8; and 2) in a teacher professional development and coaching role developing and fac…

 Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Science Office ManagerApply NowSave

Job Number: 20959

Kavli Inst for Astrophysics & Space Rsrch Science Full-Time Jun 10, 2022

TRANSITING EXOPLANET SURVEY SATELLITE (TESS) SCIENCE OFFICE MANAGER, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, to manage the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Science Office (TSO).  Will manage and supervise the activities of a six-person team of scientists and technical staff, generating, vetting, and updating the list of over 5,000 planet candidates for follow-up obser…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 21388

Plasma Science and Fusion Center VP Research Full-Time Jun 7, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), to work in the area of experimental fusion plasma and stability physics research. The research will primarily focus on the SPARC tokamak, a novel and powerful instrument designed to be the world’s first net-energy fusion experiment.  Will lead the development of data-driven and physics-based modeling for SPARC disruptions …

 Core Scientific Director, High Throughput Screening (HTS) FacilityApply NowSave

Job Number: 21350

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time May 31, 2022

CORE SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR, HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING (HTS) FACILITY, Koch Institute (KI) for Integrative Cancer Research, to drive the scientific direction of the HTS Core Facility, the mission of which is to enable KI and the MIT community to use state-of-the-art automated screening systems and shared small molecule and genetic perturbation libraries in discovery and translational oncology and bio…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Computational Microbiology and Urban HealthApply NowSave

Job Number: 19900

Urban Studies & Planning Architecture & Planning Full-Time Temporary May 28, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN COMPUTATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY AND URBAN HEALTH, Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)-Senseable City Lab (SCL), to fill a research position that focuses on understanding how human health and the environmental interact to influence Alzheimer’s disease risk. This project, titled “Dissecting the impact of environmental factors and the microbiome on Alzheimer&rsquo…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 19278

Center for Transportation & Logistics Engineering Full-Time Temporary May 22, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE,  Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)-Age Lab (two openings), to support a broad range of naturalistic driving research efforts. Will collaborate with senior researchers to explore novel data sets and design and develop new data extraction approaches from telemetry data and video; both lead and contribute to the development of joint publications, participate…

 Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 21256

Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Full-Time May 11, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Civil and Environmental Engineering, to join the the Terrer Lab. Past estimates of the potential for carbon sequestration with forest restoration/afforestation neglect tradeoffs between aboveground biomass vs soil carbon sequestration and increased growth vs increased mortality, precluding an answer to the question–how many trees would it take to cancel out an average Ame…

 Clinical Research TechnologistApply NowSave

Job Number: 21244

Ctr for Clinical & Translational Rsrch VP Research Full-Time May 9, 2022

CLINICAL RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIST, Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR), to support and augment the technical capabilities for CCTR-human research activities.  Will have two main responsibilities–the safety of human subject research technical activities and assisting with installing and supporting hardware and software technology.  Will establish standard operating procedu…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Rapid Prototyping TechnologyApply NowSave

Job Number: 21233

Mechanical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Temporary May 6, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY, Mechanical Engineering, to work on design, manufacturing, and rapid prototyping in a collaborative effort between the Culpepper Lab and MIT Environment, Health and Safety.  This collaboration is researching tools and technologies that enable the safe use of emerging rapid prototyping technologies in university research and innovation activ…

 Technical Associate I, Experimental BiologistApply NowSave

Job Number: 20451

Comp Sci & Artificial Intelligence Lab Schwarzman College of Computing Full-Time May 6, 2022

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGIST, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), to work at the interface of computational and experimental work seeking to dissect the mechanisms underlying human disease genetics, experimentally validate and refine biological hypotheses, and generate new datasetsfor computational analysis. Applications include several human diseases,…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Sustainable Materials ProcessingApply NowSave

Job Number: 21196

Materials Science and Engineering Engineering Full-Time Temporary Apr 28, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS PROCESSING, Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), to work in the area of sustainable materials processing as part of the Allanore Research Group. The group recently developed new directions of research in the area of materials recycling and sustainable materials production.  It is putting together a team to further the understanding of those n…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Wickersham LaboratoryApply NowSave

Job Number: 21057

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Apr 21, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, McGovern Institute for Brain Research-Wickersham Laboratory, to develop next-generation viral tracing and transduction technologies for neuroscience.  Will spearhead the development and validation of multiple novel genetics techniques for neuroscience, including next-generation monosynaptic tracing systems using new forms of nontoxic rabies viral vectors, and tracing s…

 Research Support Associate, Flavell LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 21065

Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Science Full-Time Apr 6, 2022

RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, FLAVELL LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (2 openings), to conduct neuroscience research in a supportive, innovative environment. Will primarily be involved in performing experiments using methods such as genetics, optogenetics, calcium imaging, and behavioral analysis. The work is aimed at understanding how neural circuits generate patterned neural ac…

 Research Scientist, High-Throughput Electrolyte DiscoveryApply NowSave

Job Number: 20837

Chemistry Science Full-Time Temporary Apr 6, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, HIGH-THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION (HTE) AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR NEXT-GENERATION ELECTROLYTE DISCOVERY, Chemistry and Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), to explore and optimize an HTE system featuring a one-of-a-kind custom high throughput electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (HTEIS) setup that is being developed at MIT.  The system allows synthesis, formulation, an…

 Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 20977

MIT Energy Initiative VP Research Full-Time Mar 28, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) (2 openings), to assume a position in the field of energy system modeling and analysis.  MITEI is the energy research hub for MIT focusing on the accelerating energy transition as emerging technology and policy, demographic trends, and economics reshape the landscape of energy supply and demand. To further its mission, MITEI engages in a …

 Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 20039

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Mar 25, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, McGovern Institute for Brain Research-Feng Lab, to join a team that is exploring new animal models and technologies in brain disorder research.  Will lead projects that are developing novel animal models and investigating new mechanisms of brain disorders and developing gene therapy approaches for brain disorders; work together with excellent genome-editing teams to apply …

 Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 21014

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Mar 25, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, to join a team exploring new animal models and technologies in brain disorder research.  Will lead projects developing novel animal models, investigating new mechanisms of brain disorders, and developing gene therapy approaches for brain disorders; work with genome-editing teams to establish novel animal models and use a variety of ne…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 20979

Center for Real Estate Architecture & Planning Full-Time Temporary Mar 21, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Center for Real Estate (CRE), to join a highly collaborative team of faculty and researchers focusing on all aspects of real estate and urban economics, including housing, urban growth, finance, development, investment, housing affordability, sustainability, and new technologies. Will perform independent research in areas that include urban economics, housing, real estate f…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 20987

Nuclear Reactor Laboratory VP Research Full-Time Temporary Mar 18, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, to join the MIT Research Reactor (MITR), the primary experimental facility of the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory and one of five U.S High-Performance Research Reactors. The Center for Reactor Instrumentation and Sensor Physics (CRISP), physically located within NRL, is a joint Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and MIT center whose mission is to advance…

 Postdoctoral Associate- Social ScienceApply NowSave

Job Number: 20964

Sloan School of Management Sloan School of Management Full-Time Temporary Mar 15, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE-SOCIAL SCIENCE, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI) / MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), to work on social science issues in a project aimed at creating highly effective (potentially “superintelligent”) human-computer groups.  Will report to professors Malone, Rus, and Almaatouq and be part of a team designing, implementin…

 Postdoctoral Associate-Computer ScienceApply NowSave

Job Number: 20963

Sloan School of Management Sloan School of Management Full-Time Temporary Mar 15, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE-COMPUTER SCIENCE, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI)/MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), to work on computer science issues in a project aimed at creating highly effective (potentially “superintelligent”) human-computer groups.  Will report to professors Malone, Rus, and Almaatouq and be part of a team designing, implement…

 Supply Chain Management (SCM) Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 20815

Center for Transportation & Logistics Engineering Full-Time Mar 10, 2022

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM) POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)-Supply Chain Management (2 openings), to support the research and teaching activities related to streamline digital transformation, machine learning, and data analytics applied in logistics and supply chain management.  CTL conducts research, outreach, and educational activities with a number…

 Technical Instructor/Lab ManagerApply NowSave

Job Number: 20066

Nuclear Science and Engineering Engineering Full-Time Mar 7, 2022

TECHNICAL INSTRUCTOR/NUCLEUS LAB MANAGER, Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), to supervise and manage the NSE nuclear makerspace, MIT Nucleus, a new fabrication and prototyping facility designed to enable students to safely construct meaningful and novel nuclear, radioactive, and plasma experiments.  MIT Nucleus will make possible student-built experiments that use high voltages, high vacu…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 20893

Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Full-Time Mar 3, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Civil and Environmental Engineering-Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub), to join an interdisciplinary group that studies the microtexture, micromechanics, chemistry, and electrochemistry of cement-based materials. This work is focused at the intersection of advanced microspectroscopy, nanomechanical and electrochemical testing, and modeling of multifunctional cement-based m…

 Data ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 20891

Center for Biomedical Innovation Engineering Full-Time Temporary Mar 3, 2022

DATA SCIENTIST, Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI), will conduct research within the Biomanufacturing@MIT-CBI program and its two biopharmaceutical industry consortia – BioMAN (Biomanufacturing Consortium) and the CAACB (Consortium on Adventitious Agent Contamination in Biomanufacturing.  Research will include data-driven efforts to understand and manage the risk associated with the varia…

 Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 20799

Center for Global Change Science Science Full-Time Temporary Feb 14, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Center for Global Change Science (CGCS), to join Professor Ronald Prinn and an international team of experimentalists and theoreticians in the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) and a large atmospheric chemistry group at MIT.  The work will focus on interpretation of AGAGE observations of greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases using models, measurements, an…

 Postdoctoral Associate – Chen LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20367

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Jan 27, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research-Chen Lab (multiple openings), to work on developing novel CAR-NK cell therapy for cancer and/or mRNA-based vaccine development in the laboratory of Prof. Jianzhu Chen.  The lab is interested in innovative, interactive, and broadly trained individuals with strong backgrounds in immunology, molecular and cell biology, and co…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 20689

Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Full-Time Temporary Jan 21, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Civil and Environmental Engineering, to join the Terrer Lab.  One of the main messages emerging from COP26 was the commitment to stop carbon losses in forests, especially in the tropics. Forest loss is defined as the combination of deforestation and degradation.  The postdoc assuming this position will leverage Planet imagery and AI to monitor changes in carbon st…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 20690

Chemical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Jan 21, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Chemical Engineering-Qi Research Group, to join the Qi group and work in the area of soft matter and complex fluids.  The group is interested in leveraging the flow and deformation of soft and living materials to understand human health and develop medical technologies. Will use tools such as theory-driven models and dynamic in vitro experiments to design biomaterials …

 Research/Clinical VeterinarianApply NowSave

Job Number: 20674

Division of Comparative Medicine VP Research Full-Time Jan 21, 2022

 RESEARCH/CLINICAL VETERINARIAN, Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), to provide veterinary support and oversight for a variety of species and be actively involved in training the next generation of comparative medicine professionals.  DCM serves as the primary resource for the care, development, and refinement of animal models within the MIT community. It is tasked with the care of a…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 20631

Center for Transportation & Logistics Engineering Full-Time Jan 8, 2022

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)-Supply Chain Management (SCM) (multiple openings), to develop scholarly competence by assisting on research projects with CTL research staff and Supply Chain Management program (SCM) master’s degree students, supporting teaching activities, and conducting independent research under the supervision of CTL senior researche…

 Research Scientist, Boyden LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20625

McGovern Institute for Brain Research Office of Provost Full-Time Jan 6, 2022

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, McGovern Institute for Brain Research-Boyden Lab, to join the Synthetic Neurobiology group, which is developing cutting-edge methods for mapping the wiring and molecular composition of the brain and analyzing disease and disorder states–such as those related to Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and addiction–in mouse models and human brain tissues.  W…

 Research Scientist – Chen LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20368

Koch Inst – Integrative Cancer Research VP Research Full-Time Dec 20, 2021

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research-Chen Lab (multiple openings), to join a lab developing novel CAR-NK cell therapy for cancer and/or mRNA-based vaccine development in the laboratory of Professor Jianzhu Chen.  The lab is interested in someone broadly-trained with a strong background in immunology, molecular and cell biology, and computational biology. Responsi…

 Manufacturing Technical InstructorApply NowSave

Job Number: 20555

Mechanical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Temporary Dec 20, 2021

MANUFACTURING TECHNICAL INSTRUCTOR, Mechanical Engineering (MechE), to teach, train, and mentor students using fabrication facilities as part of undergraduate and graduate courses in manufacturing and mechanical design. Courses involve a variety of prototyping and production techniques, including machining, injection molding, thermoforming, waterjet cutting, 3D printing, metrology, and CAD/CAM sof…

 Research Support Associate, Flavell LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20558

Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Science Full-Time Dec 16, 2021

RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, FLAVELL LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to assist with data collection and analysis of population neural activity in freely-behaving animals.  The research is aimed at understanding how neural circuits generate complex behaviors (navigation, state-dependent behaviors, and more).  Research will use the model system C. elegans.  Will perform…

 Research Support Associate, Flavell LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20557

Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Science Full-Time Dec 16, 2021

RESEARCH SUPPORT ASSOCIATE, FLAVELL LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to assist with genetics, optogenetics, in vivo imaging, and quantitative behavioral experiments aimed at understanding how neural circuits generate patterned activity that gives rise to complex behaviors.  Research will use the model system C. elegans.  Will design and perform experiments; analyze and int…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Marelli LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 19680

Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering Full-Time Dec 8, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Civil and Environmental Engineering, to assume a position in structural protein design and synthetic biology in the Marelli Lab. The project involves the design of new structural proteins using AI/ML tools and/or currently available software and algorithms for the design, modeling and computational analysis of protein structures (e.g., Rosetta, Gromacs).   The Marelli…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Computational ImagingApply NowSave

Job Number: 20431

Program in Media Arts and Sciences Architecture & Planning Full-Time Nov 16, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, COMPUTATIONAL IMAGING, Media Lab-Camera Culture Group, to join a highly collaborative team of faculty and researchers focusing on computational imaging, including ultrafast imaging systems, single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors, THz time domain spectroscopy, and novel sensing systems.  Will perform independent research in areas including computational imaging,…

 Postdoctoral Associate – Privacy, Camera CultureApply NowSave

Job Number: 20416

Media Lab Architecture & Planning Full-Time Nov 11, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Program in Media Arts and Sciences-Camera Culture, to join a highly collaborative team of faculty and researchers focusing on privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) in broad areas, including data analysis, machine learning, and novel sensing systems.  Responsibilities include performing independent research in areas including computational privacy, machine learning, cry…

 Technical Associate I, Tonegawa LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20390

Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Science Full-Time Nov 4, 2021

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE I, TONEGAWA LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, to join a neuroscience laboratory working on optogenetics-aided anatomical research on learning and memory in rodents.  Emphasis will be on networks, microcircuitry, and cell-type specific connectivity. Both classical (injected tracers and standard histological preps) and next-generation approaches (viral vectors)…

 Laboratory Manager, Wilson LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20377

Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Science Full-Time Nov 2, 2021

LABORATORY MANAGER, WILSON LAB, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory,to assist with the management of the Wilson Lab.  Responsibilities include managing day-to-day operations, e.g., equipment maintanace, data servers, supplies/labstocks, software/licenses, and participating in lab research activities as necessary; maintaining laboratory protocols including those for animal research, EHS…

 Research Analyst (Data)Apply NowSave

Job Number: 20318

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Oct 20, 2021

RESEARCH ANALYST (DATA), Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (multiple openings), to work closely with and support the research of an MIT faculty member, largely in the area of data analysis.  Will work hand-in-hand with faculty members to clean and analyze data collected from the field.  Responsibilities include working with data sets, preparing and running code for data clean…

 Mellon Postdoctoral FellowshipApply NowSave

Job Number: 20264

Office of the Arts Associate Provost for the Arts Full-Time Temporary Oct 14, 2021

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) (two-year fellowship), to collaborate with faculty and invited guests on the development and production of an international symposium and a publication issuing from the event (please see the 2014 symposium Seeing/Sounding/Sensing and subsequent book, Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Se…

 Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 20216

Center for Transportation & Logistics Engineering Full-Time Sep 29, 2021

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) (multiple openings), to be responsible for creating, supporting, and disseminating new knowledge in logistics, supply chain management, transportation, and related fields.  Will identify, secure funding for, and conduct innovative research in the supply chain management, logistics, and transportation space with corporate and/…

 Research Specialist, Julia LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 19583

Comp Sci & Artificial Intelligence Lab Schwarzman College of Computing Full-Time Temporary Sep 2, 2021

RESEARCH SPECIALIST, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory-Julia Lab (multiple positions), to join a lab focused on Julia tools for high-performance computing, scientific machine learning, and a number of applications, including climate modeling, energy efficiency, electronic structures, ecology,  space weather, and more.  Responsibilities include researching, designing…

 Research Optics and Microscopy Engineer, Chung LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 20109

Picower Institute for Learning & Memory Science Full-Time Sep 1, 2021

RESEARCH OPTICS AND MICROSCOPY ENGINEER, Picower Institute for Learning & Memory-Chung Lab, to develop high-end microscopes, computational tools, and algorithms for system operation, automation, and raw data processing.  Will work with the principle investigator to develop imaging equipment when necessary; find and maintain manufacturing contacts for the fabrication of the specialized res…

 Backend Developer, Poetic JusticeApply NowSave

Job Number: 19847

Media Lab Architecture & Planning Full-Time Temporary Aug 5, 2021

BACKEND DEVELOPER, Media Lab-Poetic Justice, to join a group exploring new forms of social justice through art and work on a series of participatory public artworks.  The group has been collecting sound and video recordings from around the world and remixing them into sound and video works, including A Counting and Freedom Radio.  Responsibilities include developing inter…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 19938

Chemical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Jul 28, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Chemical Engineering (ChemE), to join the Doyle Lab and work on research on “Microengineered Technologies to Spatially Profile microRNA in Tissue Sections.” Will lead research efforts on a funded NIH R01 grant at MIT. The overarching goal of this project is to design, optimize, and apply a new microfabricated tool for spatially-resolved measurements of miRNA in …

 Postdoctoral Associate in Mobility and Infrastructure InformaticsApply NowSave

Job Number: 19904

Urban Studies & Planning Architecture & Planning Full-Time Jul 22, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE IN MOBILITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE INFORMATICS, Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP)-Senseable City Lab (SCL), to join the Good Vibrations team for the analysis of complex infrastructure systems such as bridges and roadways.  Will perform fundamental and applied research on extracting infrastructure information–such as bridge vibrations–from mobility datasets with the lab&r…

 Technical Associate I, Sikes LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 19802

Chemical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Jul 1, 2021

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE 1, Chemical Engineering (ChemE), to join the Sikes Lab on an industrially-sponsored project on the topic of pathogen detection. Tests that are accurate, can be conducted outside of laboratories, and are more affordable and robust than current products on the market represent a pressing need worldwide and are in great demand in industries ranging from medical diagnostic testing …

 Postdoctoral Associate—Miniature High-Vacuum Pumps for Compact Mass SpectrometryApply NowSave

Job Number: 19810

Microsystems Technology Laboratories Engineering Full-Time Temporary Jun 30, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, MINIATURE HIGH-VACUUM PUMPS FOR COMPACT MASS SPECTROMETRY, Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL)-Velasquez Group, to work on miniature, 3D-printed compact high-vacuum pumps as part of a multi-institution, multi-year, industry-sponsored project on compact mass spectrometry for healthcare applications.  Will develop additively manufactured, miniaturized hardware for…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Sikes LabApply NowSave

Job Number: 19795

Chemical Engineering Engineering Full-Time Jun 29, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Chemical Engineering, to join the Sikes Lab, which combine expertise in applied molecular biology and protein engineering techniques with engineering fundamentals to develop new technologies for medical diagnostic testing.  The research will be focused on detection of proteins that indicate disease or the presence of pathogens in complex fluids, within minutes and at a…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Digital Currency InitiativeApply NowSave

Job Number: 19629

Program in Media Arts and Sciences Architecture & Planning Full-Time Temporary Jun 24, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Program in Media Arts and Sciences-Digital Currency Initiative, to join a highly collaborative team of researchers and staff who bring together global experts to take on challenges in cryptocurrency and digital currency design.  Responsibilities include assisting with building up long-term defenses against potential layer-1 bugs in Bitcoin by, for example, supporting m…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Camera CultureApply NowSave

Job Number: 18742

Program in Media Arts and Sciences Architecture & Planning Full-Time Temporary Jun 24, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Program in Media Arts and Sciences-Camera Culture, to join a highly collaborative team of faculty and researchers focusing on distributed machine learning, including privacy preserving machine learning, cryptographically secure machine learning, COVID19 projects, and ML for health.  Responsibilities include performing independent researching areas including computation…

 Postdoctoral Associate in Wireless Biomedical Sensing and Antennae, Nano-Cybernetic BiotrekApply NowSave

Job Number: 18640

Program in Media Arts and Sciences Architecture & Planning Full-Time Jun 24, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, WIRELESS BIOMEDICAL SENSING AND ANTENNAE, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, to join the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek (NCB) research group. The group’s aim is to develop extremely miniaturized micro-nano-devices using meta-materials that can noninvasively and remotely/wirelessly monitor and modulate our biological system. The device will harvest energy from external appl…

 Postdoctoral Associate in Wireless Sensing and Electromagnetics, Nano-Cybernetic BiotrekApply NowSave

Job Number: 18202

Program in Media Arts and Sciences Architecture & Planning Full-Time Jun 24, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE IN WIRELESS SENSING AND ELECTROMAGNETICS, NANO-CYBERNETIC BIOTREK, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek​ (NCB) Group, to join a research group whose aim is to develop extremely miniaturized micro-nano-devices using meta-materials that can non-invasively and remotely/wirelessly monitor and modulate our biological system. The device will harvest energy …

 Postdoctoral Associate, Magnetoelectric and Multiferroic Devices, Nano-Cybernetic BiotrekApply NowSave

Job Number: 17074

Program in Media Arts and Sciences Architecture & Planning Full-Time Temporary Jun 24, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, MAGNETOELECTRIC AND MULTIFERROIC DEVICES, NANO-CYBERNETIC BIOTREK, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, to join the Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research group, which aims to invent disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and create new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis. Responsibilities will include designing and developing new magnetoelectric devices for diverse…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 19675

D-Lab Chancellor’s Full-Time Temporary Jun 2, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, MIT D-Lab Local Innovation Group, to join a sponsored research project that is developing and testing evaluation instruments for assessing changes in the capacity for local innovation in communities facing development challenges.  Will work directly with the study’s principal investigator, Elizabeth Hoffecker, to design and manage the field testing of research in…

 TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) Payload Data Operations (PDO) Infrastructure SpecialistApply NowSave

Job Number: 19602

Kavli Inst for Astrophysics & Space Rsrch Science Full-Time May 19, 2021

TESS PAYLOAD DATA OPERATIONS (PDO) INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALIST, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, to beresponsible for the maintenance of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Payload Data Operations (PDO) infrastructure, including the associated file system, database, software codebase, and computing environment; and for the execution and associated support of TESS cod…

 TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) Senior Software DeveloperApply NowSave

Job Number: 19603

Kavli Inst for Astrophysics & Space Rsrch Science Full-Time May 19, 2021

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, to oversee and where necessary redesign of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Payload Operations Center (POC) and Payload Data Operations (PDO) custom and vendor-supplied software suites.  Will ensure long-term stability and utility of both the operations pipeline and science data processing pipeline…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 19597

Architecture Architecture & Planning Full-Time Temporary May 13, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Architecture, to join Professor Mark Goulthorpe’s ARPA-e funded research project, CarbonHouse.  CarbonHouse looks to designing, theorizing, analyzing, and prototyping composite buildings to test the viability of emerging forms of carbon, especially those derived from gas pyrolysis of natural gas and other precursors.  But graphene, carbon nano fibers, and carbon f…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Yeast Engineering for Environmental ApplicationsApply NowSave

Job Number: 19582

Department of Biological Engineering Engineering Full-Time May 10, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, YEAST ENGINEERING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS, Biological Engineering, to work on cutting-edge yeast genetic and metabolic engineering projects for environmental applications in the laboratory of Professor Angela Belcher.  Will join an interdisciplinary, creative, and highly collaborative team of scientists and engineers at MIT that uses aspects of nanotechnology, d…

 Postdoctoral Associate in Linguistic AnthropologyApply NowSave

Job Number: 19500

Anthropology Program Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Full-Time Temporary Apr 13, 2021

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Anthropology Program, to teach the twelve-unit course “Language, Culture, and Communication” each year. In addition, will devote three to five hours each week to the Language and Technology Lab, coordinating a recurring workshop, updating the website, and mentoring graduate and undergraduate research partners. 

 Technical Associate IIApply NowSave

Job Number: 19473

Research Laboratory of Electronics VP Research Full-Time Apr 6, 2021

TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE 2, Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE)-Photovoltaic Research Laboratory (PV Lab),  to perform mechanical duties on high-throughput liquid synthesis, materials fabrication, characterization, and performance measurement. Will work with lab researchers on fabricating solar devices, developing experiment protocols, co-supervising junior team members, and leading the lab&r…

 Postdoctoral Associate, Experimental High Energy Physics GroupApply NowSave

Job Number: 19173

Laboratory for Nuclear Science Science Full-Time Dec 18, 2020

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)-Experimental High Energy Physics Group (2 openings), to work on the CMS experiment.  The MIT group is involved in several detector projects such as the data acquisition system, the Level 1 Trigger upgrade, the Hadron Calorimeter upgrade, the High Granularity Calorimeter Trigger upgrade, and CMS computing. MIT operates a Tier-2 compu…

 Research ScientistApply NowSave

Job Number: 18967

Comp Sci & Artificial Intelligence Lab Schwarzman College of Computing Full-Time Sep 22, 2020

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), to join the Edelman Group.  Will apply expertise in abstractions for high performance computing (HPC) and Julia and play a significant role in the development of the Julia high performance ecosystem and applications.  Will serve as a key member of a multidisciplinary group that includes mathematicians, c…

 Postdoctoral AssociateApply NowSave

Job Number: 18956

Laboratory for Nuclear Science Science Full-Time Temporary Sep 16, 2020

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)-Experimental High Energy Physics Group, to work on the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment.  Will join a group that took a leading role in the discovery of the Higgs boson and presently holds a leading role in searches for dark matter. The group’s physics program also focuses on the measurement of Higgs boson properties and…