"Postdoctoral Fellowship-(Teaching) Ethics and Technology"

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation.

About Us
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy (http://spp.gatech.edu/) has 63 faculty members and we instruct students in undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. programs. Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a vibrant city with great economic and cultural strengths. The Institute is a member of the University System of Georgia, the Georgia Research Alliance, and the Association of American Universities. Georgia Tech prides itself on its technology resources, interdisciplinary research and collaborations, and high-quality student body.

Location
Atlanta, GA

Job Summary
The School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, together with the Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center (ETHICx), invites applications for a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Ethics and Technology, starting January 1, 2026.

This is a two-year, non-renewable fellowship which includes research, a 2/2 teaching assignment, and service that relates broadly to the mission of ETHICx. The fellow will be expected to teach courses in practical ethics, which may include engineering ethics, environmental ethics, and/or science, technology, and human values. Interest in and capacity for teaching a course on AI Ethics & Policy would be especially valuable, as well as assisting in supervision of the Georgia Tech Ethics Bowl Team.

Responsibilities
Job duties will include research, teaching and service activities at Georgia Tech.

Required Qualifications
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. conferred by January 1, 2026, in a field related to ethics and technology, including philosophy of science and technology; science, technology, and society (STS); ethics of emerging technologies, and others. The Ph.D. must have been conferred within the last five years.

Preferred Qualifications
Preferred candidates will have university-level experience teaching courses in practical ethics or related topics.

Required Documents to Attach
Interested and qualified individuals should apply by submitting a curriculum vita, a letter of application that specifically addresses their qualifications to work in a practical ethics program at a technological university, and a list of three references.

Apply Before Date
Applications will be considered beginning September 15, 2025, but the search will continue until the position is filled.

Contact Information
Questions about the position may be directed Dr. Robert Kirkman at robert.kirkman@gatech.edu.