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

Summary

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Duties

Major Duties of the Position: Instructor (AD-21): 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. Assistant Professor (AD-22): 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. Associate Professor (AD-23): 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. Professor (AD-24 - Nonsupervisory): 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. 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. Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Successful candidates should demonstrate, at a level appropriate to the rank sought: -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. Associate Professors and Professors should additionally demonstrate progressively greater academic leadership. Qualifications Across All Ranks 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. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: 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. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: -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. Inquiries about the position should be directed to the Dean, School of Integrated General Studies (SIGS), Dr. Mark N. Jensen, email: [email protected]. Please do not email documents or completed applications to this address as they will not be considered.

Education

EDUCATION: If selected, you will be requested to provide original copies of ALL OFFICIAL transcripts for degrees being pursued or obtained (or letter of degree completion if an OFFICIAL transcript is not available due to recent graduation) to support your educational claims as stated in your curriculum vitae. Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a transcript to be considered OFFICIAL, it should be printed on university letterhead and the registrar's official seal/signature must appear on the transcript. Your transcripts must also reflect the degree awarded/conferred date. Transcripts labeled UNOFFICIAL will not be accepted. Upon request, ensure you include ALL transcripts to support your educational claims as stated in your curriculum vitae (resume) even if not required for this position. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the educational requirements. However, you must show proof that the education credentials have been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. education program. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying in the form of an "official" statement of U.S. equivalency from a Department of Education approved (non-federal) agency (i.e. AICE, NACES), who will complete a U.S. Standard of Education Conversion. How You Will Be Evaluated

Applicants will be evaluated on their ability to contribute to the teaching-centered, integrated mission of SIGS, including: Academic or professional preparation, technical expertise and breadth, and undergraduate teaching effectiveness. Ability to teach integrated technical general education rather than introductory specialist coursework. Ability to combine first-principles understanding with ambitious, responsible use of AI and contemporary technical tools. Experience with hands-on, laboratory, design-build-test, modeling, simulation, digital-engineering, or comparable applied technical education. Ability to connect STEM/AI with broader human, ethical, strategic, operational, warfighting, and national-security questions. Cadet mentorship, scholarly, technical or professional engagement, service, collaboration, and leadership appropriate to rank. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae or resume and a cover letter describing how they would contribute to integrated technical general education; combine first-principles understanding with progressive AI mastery; and connect theory, tools, systems, and operational consequence. Starting September 27, 2025, USAJOBS began restricting all resumes to two pages in length. The restriction does NOT apply to this position. Please upload your Resume/Curriculum Vitae using the Other Documents - Curriculum Vitae option. You are still required to provide a document in the Resume section to successfully submit your application. In the Resume section, please upload a document informing your Resume/Curriculum Vitae was submitted using Other Documents. You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above. This position is not in the competitive civil service and late applications from veterans do not apply. Applicants will be assessed based on their teaching credentials, scholarship, service, and education. Your application package (curriculum vitae / resume and cover letter) will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality ranking for this position. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. Applicants who disqualify themselves will not be evaluated further. Interested persons should submit a curriculum vitae and cover letter addressing how their qualifications meet the requirements of this announcement, including evidence of undergraduate teaching excellence; disciplinary depth and intellectual breadth; ability to teach meaningfully beyond a narrow specialization; ability to contribute to an integrated common curriculum; and sustained scholarly or professional engagement appropriate to the rank sought. Additional documents are required to complete your application package, please reference the "How to Apply" and "Required Documents" section for more information. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Other Information

Direct Deposit: All federal employees are required by PL 104-134 to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit. Employed Annuitants (Reemployed Annuitants): Applicants in receipt of an annuity based on civilian employment in the Federal Svc are subject to the DoD Policy on The Employment of Annuitants. Click here for more information. Current Federal Civilian employees may apply for temp and term positions and if selected, a break in service may be required prior to appointment to the position. Temp and Term Appointments: If you are selected for a temp or term position in the excepted service, your appointment may be extended to the maximum period allowed by law without further competition. Individuals who are eligible for Schedule A, 213.3102(u) appointments cannot be referred under the Air Force (AF) Selective Placement Program process for faculty positions. Schedule A applicants must apply via instructions in the "How to Apply" section and applications must be received by the closing date of the announcement. Late or incomplete application packages will not be considered. USAFA is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) and provides reasonable accommodation to qualified applicants with disabilities. The AF believes that diversity is essential to accomplishing its mission. The AF Academy highly values individuals who have a demonstrated ability to work successfully with and help develop individuals of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. For the AF, diversity encompasses personal life experiences, geographic background, socioeconomic background, cultural knowledge, educational background, work background, language abilities, physical abilities, philosophical/spiritual perspectives, age, race, ethnicity, and gender. Please ensure your application package DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY PHOTOGRAPHS. Applications submitted with any documents that include photographs will not be considered. Applications submitted under this announcement will be considered ONLY for this vacancy. To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order (EO)14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees. Therefore, to the extent a Federal job announcement includes the requirement that applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 pursuant to EO14043, that req does not currently apply. Federal agencies may request information regarding the vaccination status of selected applicants for the purposes of implementing other workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and restriction from the workplace. Salary will be calculated based on years of experience, academic rank at which one is hired, and commensurate with average USAFA, regional, and national salaries for the disciplinary area. You may receive a one-time taxable recruiting/relocation incentive if eligible and authorized. 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. For more information, click here. If you have questions regarding this announcement and have hearing or speech difficulties click here.