Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering - Semiconductor Job no: 563636 Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track Location: San José Categories: Unit 3 - CFA - California Faculty Association, Tenured/Tenure-Track, Full Time, Faculty - Engineering, On-site (work in-person at business location) Position Rank and Title: Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering School/Department Name: Electrical Engineering Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as established by the CSU Salary Schedule. Anticipated hiring academic year annual salary range: $106,000 - $126,000 Faculty employee benefits are very competitive for the higher education sector. See the CSU Employee Benefits Summary for details about the CSU’s excellent benefits package. Target Start Date: August 17, 2027 Application Deadline: 1 December 2026 (Applications accepted until filled or closed) Position Description The Department of Electrical Engineering at San José State University is pleased to announce a search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor beginning in August 2027. We seek candidates with expertise in semiconductor fabrication and test. The successful candidate will be required to teach undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering courses and maintain an active research program in these areas. The EE Department encourages and celebrates multidisciplinary research that solves real-world problems, including but not limited to food scarcity, assistive technologies, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. Located in the center of Silicon Valley, the Department of Electrical Engineering at SJSU has established a firm goal of providing a high-quality electrical engineering education to its students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The department offers classroom instruction by the best-qualified EE faculty, hands-on experience in industry-sponsored, state-of-the-art laboratories, and opportunities for industry internships. The department has over 800 undergraduate students, 20 SAGE (accelerated master's in EE) students, and 190 graduate students. Both the EE undergraduate and graduate programs help students gain professional experience while taking classes. In conjunction with their classes, many students work as Instructional Student Assistants and Teaching Associates in the department, and as EE interns at Silicon Valley firms. Our graduates enjoy excellent career opportunities in a broad spectrum of theoretical and practical areas such as device physics, micro and nano electronics, analog electronics, integrated circuits, communications, signal processing, network and network security, mobile network, power electronics, energy systems, microprocessors and computer systems, embedded systems, control, robotics, autonomous systems, machine learning and deep learning, quantum information and quantum computing. The Department of Electrical Engineering website is at www.sjsu.edu/ee/. Department Resources & Infrastructure Micro Processing Engineering Laboratory (MPEL): Offers hands-on facilities for oxidation/diffusion, contact and maskless photolithography, IC testing, wet/dry etching, and a minor in semiconductor fabrication. The facility has a strong tradition of workforce development. (MPEL Website) Advanced Characterization Equipment: Access to MCMC SEM, Atomic Force Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction, and 3-D Optical Profilometry. Specialized Laboratories: Charles Babbage Synopsys Laboratory: Servers and Software Cadence Design Systems Laboratory: Servers and Software Teradyne: Memory ATE Laboratory LitePoint Corporation: RF Antenna Pattern Test Chamber E&M and microwave: VNA, ANSYS software Cheadle RF Communications Laboratory: Spectrum Analyzer, Logic Analyzer, Time Synthesizer, Vector Signal Generator, Network Analyzer Consortia, Hubs & Academic Partnerships Member of the California-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub and the Edge Consortium NNME Pacific-Intermountain Re
