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Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty Computer Science Fall 2026
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What they do
A Computer Science Professor teaches foundational computer science ideas, truths, and methods to students through a combination of classroom instruction, lab experience, and assignments at colleges, trade schools or other institutes. May assist or lead in the creation of the computer science curriculum to be taught. In addition to instruction, they may assist or lead in research initiatives relating to their field.
$98,834 / year median in New York
+8% projected growth
Job Description
New York University:
NYU•NY:
Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science:
Computer Science•NYU Courant Institute:
Courant Computer Science +Tandon Computer Science and Engineering Description:
New York University expects to have several tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science and invites candidates at all levels and all research areas to apply. Faculty members are expected to be outstanding scholars and to participate in teaching at all levels, from undergraduate to doctoral. New appointees will be offered competitive salaries and startup packages. Computer Science at NYU spans the Courant Institute and the Tandon School of Engineering, located across two vibrant campuses in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and consists of 93 regular faculty members as well as contract, research, adjunct, and visiting faculty members. Research activities span algorithms, cryptography and theory, computational biology and health, data management and mining, distributed computing and networking, formal methods and programming languages, graphics, vision and multimedia, machine learning and data science, natural language processing, scientific computing, as well as security and privacy. Collaborative research with industry is facilitated by geographic proximity to computer science activities at Facebook, Google, DeepMind, Amazon, Microsoft Research, IBM, Bell Labs, AT&T Research, Flatiron Institute, and many other companies with research divisions in the NYC area. In compliance with NYC's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary ranges for this position are as follows: For the rank of Assistant Professor, $145,000- $185,000; for the rank of Associate Professor, $155,000
- $225,000; and for the rank of Full Professor, $225,000
- $325,000.