Faculty searches

We are hiring new teaching and research faculty for 2025-26.

Claim your role in the Department of Computer Science.

Our research is adaptable, tangible, and future-focused. Our culture is inclusive, immersive, and spirited. We commit to education that is collaborative, experiential, and transcends disciplines. Come work with us.

Open positions

Main campus (Blacksburg, Virginia)

Innovation Campus (Alexandria, Virginia)

Position information coming soon.

About the department

We are part of the comprehensive and highly-ranked College of Engineering and collaborate extensively on transdisciplinary research and education initiatives across the college, university, and at other institutions. 

We have 86 faculty members, including 67 tenured or tenure-track, 26 early career awardees, and numerous recipients of awards from IBM, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Cisco, and others. Our faculty members direct several interdisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Human-Computer Interaction, the Center for Community Empowering Pandemic Prediction and Prevention from Atoms to Societies, and the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics. The department is home to 976 graduate students and more than 1,700 undergraduate majors.

About Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech is a public, land-grant university committed to teaching and learning, research, and outreach to the Commonwealth of Virginia, the nation, and the world. Building on its motto of Ut Prosim (that I may serve), the university is dedicated to InclusiveVT and the spirit of community, diversity, and excellence. Virginia Tech actively seeks a broad spectrum of candidates passionate about preparing leaders for tomorrow's world to apply with us.

The College of Engineering undergraduate program ranks 16th, and its graduate program ranks 30th among all U.S. engineering schools, according to U.S. News and World Report. The mission of the College of Engineering is to educate and inspire our students to think critically, innovate, and lead. Our core values are inclusiveness, excellence, integrity, perseverance, and stewardship.  

Our main campus is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, in an area consistently ranked among the country's best places to live. Our department occupies over 70,000 square feet across several buildings on the Blacksburg campus, including Torgersen Hall and the new Data and Decision Sciences Building and Gilbert Place facility.

In addition, our programs in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area offer unique proximity to government and industry partners and also are expanding rapidly. The university's new Innovation Campus is slated to open in 2025 in Alexandria, Virginia.

Our commitment to inclusive excellence

The department fully embraces the university's commitment to:

• increase faculty, staff, and student diversity
• ensure a welcoming, affirming, safe, and accessible campus climate
• advance our research, teaching, and service mission through inclusive excellence
• promote sustainable transformation through institutionalized structures.

Virginia Tech does not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.