EECS welcomes applicants from all research areas and gives priority to originality and promise over specialization. The posting also names targeted initiatives in quantum computing and AI, Inequality, and Society. For the latter, it highlights algorithmic fairness, AI and the economy, AI software in larger sociotechnical systems, and AI’s social and behavioral impacts. Those initiatives do not limit the broader search to those subjects.
The EECS posting lists Dec. 7, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time as both its next review date and final application date. It says applying by then ensures full consideration and gives July 1, 2027, as an anticipated, rather than guaranteed, start date. Applicants seeking consideration for more than one position must submit a separate application for each.
Related searches have their own dates
Berkeley has a separate EECS and Center for Computational Biology search in AI for biology for one approved assistant professor position, with a Nov. 9, 2026, final application date. A computational biomedicine search lists two approved assistant-level positions and two approved open-rank positions; its final date is Nov. 18. Neither is part of the up-to-seven EECS search.
Another posting seeks an assistant or associate professor in electronic, functional and quantum materials, jointly appointed in Materials Science and Engineering and EECS. Its final date is Dec. 7. That quantum-materials search is distinct from the main EECS posting’s quantum-computing initiative. Berkeley’s recruitment index also lists an assistant professor search at the intersection of statistics and computer science, with Nov. 10, 2026, as the date to apply for full consideration. The index does not identify that search’s final application time.
