Tenure-track faculty opportunity · Auburn, Alabama
Build what comes next.
Join Auburn Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, operations research, human systems integration, systems engineering, and electronics packaging and reliability, supported by a deeply applied research ecosystem stretching from Auburn to Huntsville.
Visit Auburn Careers for the current position posting. The preliminary department materials describe an anticipated August 2027 start.
A broad search with a clear purpose
Four research homes. One collaborative department.
The successful candidate will complement one or more of Auburn ISE’s core areas while building scholarship across the boundaries that matter most.
Advanced Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing, artificial intelligence (AI), quality, sensing, robotics, digital twins and technology transition.
Explore ISE research 02Operations Research
Optimization, networks, stochastic systems, analytics and applications across industry and public missions.
Explore ISE research 03Human Systems Integration Center (HSIC)
Human factors, occupational health, cognition and the design of safe, effective technologies and work.
Visit HSIC 04Systems Engineering
Digital engineering, model-based systems engineering (MBSE), artificial intelligence for systems engineering, systems engineering for artificial intelligence, verification and digital thread.
Explore systems engineeringMore than a lab
An advanced manufacturing ecosystem built for impact.
ICAMS anchors a network of research, teaching and outreach capabilities that links foundational methods to factory-floor adoption and connects university research with government, industry and academia.
- Connected machines, live data, sensing, analytics and digital twins
- A network of advanced-manufacturing laboratories and affiliated institutes
- Statewide pathways through community colleges and manufacturers
A platform for consequential work
Connect quickly to facilities, partners and real problems.
Auburn ISE’s reach extends across manufacturing, national security, health, transportation, technology and workforce development.
A direct bridge to Huntsville
The Auburn University Research and Innovation Campus (AURIC) sits minutes from Redstone Arsenal, Marshall Space Flight Center and a dense aerospace and defense network.
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People at the center
The Human Systems Integration Center (HSIC) joins human factors, occupational health, emerging interfaces and systems design with federal and industry partnerships.
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Digital engineering momentum
A recent Auburn summit brought together more than 30 companies and agencies to advance MBSE, AI and the defense industrial base.
Read the storyTeach where experience matters
Students turn ideas into products, ventures and change.
The Thomas Walter Center for Technology Management connects engineering and business through product innovation, entrepreneurship, commercialization and engineering management. Its Business-Engineering-Technology (BET) minor and International BET program combine technical development, customer discovery, prototyping and global experience.
- 75+ new BET students admitted in 2025-26
- Approximately 85 students in Engineering Management
- 68 students in Spain-based study abroad experiences
- Industry projects and student ventures with measurable results
A practitioner-rich classroom
Applied learning is part of the department's operating model.
Tiger Motors turns Lean and Six Sigma into a full production experience for campus students, online learners and industry teams. Across the graduate portfolio, working engineers from aerospace, defense, manufacturing, energy, health and technology bring complex operating contexts into the classroom.
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Established strength · renewed opportunity
Electronics packaging and reliability.
Auburn brings more than 25 years of experience in electronics packaging, manufacturing and reliability. The former Center for Advanced Vehicle and Extreme Environment Electronics (CAVE3) evolved into the Auburn University Electronics Packaging Research Institute (AUEPRI), sustaining a cross-college platform for this work.
The new 50,000-square-foot, $30 million laboratory at the Auburn University Applied Research Institute (AUARI) adds rapid prototyping and radiation-effects testing for space microelectronics in Huntsville.
- Electronics manufacturing, reliability and process quality
- Harsh-environment qualification and parts assurance
- Lifecycle decisions for aerospace and mission-critical systems
Room to build a career
A place where early-career faculty can pursue consequential questions.
Recent success includes a five-year, approximately $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for human-centered augmented-reality research. The work connects foundational inquiry, student involvement and outreach across Alabama and Mississippi.
Read the CAREER Award storyTwo communities. One Auburn network.
Build your career in Auburn, and your partnerships across Alabama.
Auburn combines the resources of an R1 land-grant university with a collegial college town, strong schools and an expanding research park. Huntsville adds direct access to one of the nation's densest aerospace, defense and engineering communities.
Background image linked from the AURIC facility page.