Instructor/Assistant/Associate/Professor - STEM and Artificial Intelligence

U.S. Air Force Academy • Air Force Academy, CO

8d • Onsite

About The Position

The School of Integrated General Studies (SIGS) provides the common core academic education upon which later specialized disciplinary education builds. It forms cadets as Citizens, Leaders, Warfighters, and Scholars. The SIGS curriculum integrates civics, humanities, arts, and social sciences (CHASS), STEM and Artificial Intelligence, and Warfighting threads. Faculty work across conventional disciplinary boundaries to build a rigorous, ordered, and mission-aligned general education for future Air Force and Space Force officers. The STEM and Artificial Intelligence thread provides the common technical formation every cadet needs before and alongside specialized study. It is deliberately general rather than introductory: not the opening course of several majors, but a common foundation in scientific, quantitative, computational, systems, and engineering judgment. Cadets repeatedly use estimation, measurement, modeling, experiment, design, test, computation, and data. AI is a longitudinal capability: cadets should understand enough first principles to use modern tools confidently and responsibly, validate outputs against mathematics, physical reality, and experiment, and retain responsibility for technical decisions. These are teaching-centered positions. SIGS seeks educators who combine technical depth with breadth; can move among theory, physical intuition, quantitative representation, computation, data, experiment, design, and test; and can connect first-principles understanding to contemporary AI-enabled practice. Faculty should help cadets reason about unfamiliar problems rather than merely complete a conventional introductory course in one discipline. Scholarly, technical, and professional activity supports this mission, but the paramount purpose of these positions is excellent undergraduate teaching and related service supporting the excellence and integration of the core curriculum.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is required
• The selected candidate will be subject to a security investigation leading to successful completion of a background investigation with a favorable adjudication.
• The selectee's failure to meet this requirement will be grounds for termination.
• Essential qualities expected of every faculty member include the personal attributes of integrity, industry, cooperation, initiative, and breadth of intellectual interests.
• Master’s or Terminal Degree commensurate with academic rank sought.
• You will be required to serve a 1-year trial period.
• As a condition of employment, male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Technical disciplinary expertise together with intellectual breadth beyond the candidate's principal specialization.
• Ability to teach technical general education rather than the introductory version of a specialist course, selecting content in service of transferable technical judgment.
• Ability to preserve first-principles understanding while developing confident, progressively sophisticated use of AI and contemporary scientific and engineering tools.
• Ability to connect theory to real systems through laboratories, experiment, design-build-test, modeling, computation, data, simulation, or comparable hands-on work.
• Knowledge of effective undergraduate teaching, course development, assessment, and academic standards, and ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
• Ability to connect technical knowledge to human, ethical, strategic, operational, and national-security questions and collaborate effectively while maintaining professional currency.
• Candidates must demonstrate appropriate academic or professional preparation, excellence or strong promise in undergraduate teaching, technical breadth beyond a narrow specialization, and ability to contribute to integrated technical general education.
• Relevant fields may include artificial intelligence, computer or data science, machine learning, mathematics, statistics, physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, systems engineering, operations research, cyber science, robotics or autonomous systems, modeling and simulation, STEM or engineering education, or another closely related field supporting STEM and Artificial Intelligence.

Nice To Haves

• Excellent undergraduate teaching, especially in general education, interdisciplinary STEM, or integrated technical settings.
• Experience with laboratory, experiment, design-build-test, systems integration, project-based learning, modeling, simulation, or test-and-evaluation education.
• Experience with contemporary AI-enabled scientific or engineering workflows, including AI-assisted coding or analysis, design exploration, optimization, digital engineering, autonomy, machine learning, or simulation.
• Multidisciplinary technical practice in industry, government, national laboratories, military organizations, or comparable applied settings.
• Course or program leadership, curriculum development, assessment, advising, mentorship, or interdisciplinary technical scholarship.

Responsibilities

• Deliver structured undergraduate general-education instruction within the common curriculum under academic direction.
• Select and adapt approved instructional materials consistent with common course objectives, evaluate student performance, provide academic advising, maintain professional currency, and participate in assigned course-team, School, and Academy service.
• Deliver and assess undergraduate courses within the common curriculum and contribute to their planning and continuous improvement.
• Assume increasing course leadership and coordination responsibilities, such as serving as a Course Director.
• Maintain appropriate scholarly or professional engagement while contributing to course teams, School service, and interdisciplinary integration.
• Provide sustained teaching excellence and lead major multi-section courses or significant curriculum components.
• Maintain sustained scholarly or professional engagement appropriate to the educational mission.
• Lead course-team and School-level curriculum and assessment efforts and actively mentor junior faculty.
• Provide distinguished instruction and senior academic leadership in the design, integration, and continuous improvement of the common curriculum.
• Maintain mature scholarly or professional engagement appropriate to the educational mission.
• Lead major School- and institution-level academic initiatives and mentor and develop faculty colleagues across academic areas.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Disabled veteran leave is available to a Federal employee hired on/after 5 Nov 2016, who is a veteran with a service-connected disability rating of 30% or more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level