Assistant/Associate Research Professor 510900 Main Campus - Starkville, MS Mississippi - Main Campus 193601 - CAVS Research Faculty Regular Full-Time 12-month Opening on: Jul 1 2026 Position Function: Perform engineering research. This activity normally occurs through writing and submitting proposals for research sponsorship and the subsequent execution of a project and publication of results. Frequently, the conduct
of such research requires, in addition to engineering/scientific technical skills, the management skills necessary to direct a team or faculty, staff and graduate students. Salary Grade: UC Please see Staff Compensation Structure or Skilled Crafts and Service Maintenance Compensation Schedule for salary ranges. For salary grade UC, these positions are "Unclassified" and salary ranges are determined by the hiring
department. Department Profile: The Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) at Mississippi State University is an interdisciplinary center comprised of research, engineering design & development, and technology transfer teams for industry and government partners. Our overall effort is focused on developing superior computational, engineering, manufacturing, design, and information technologies relevant to
Mississippi and regional industries. This is accomplished by bringing together world-class technologists and technologies to solve complex problems. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 1. The position will have a strong emphasis on computational science and engineering research as related to systems engineering and its applications. Specifically, the areas of application are reliability, manufacturability, and big
data.2. Provide technical leadership in one or more of the areas of application and associated technologies listed above.3. Initiate research activities in reliability, manufacturability, and/or big data. Other areas of interest include product life cycle costs, risk, reliability and resilience applications of systems engineering.4. Tasks include developing and executing high performance computing codes for a variety
of military and civilian applications.5. Develop and enhance relationships with federal, state, local and private partners to the fullest extent possible, forming collaboration and coordinating relationships resulting in research and development activities.6. Publish the results of personal and sponsored research in archival journals refereed by his/her peers.7. Serve as academic advisor to graduate and undergraduate
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