"Research Associate Professor"

Job Description

Applications are invited for a Research Associate Professor (non-tenure track) with the Systems Software Research Group (http://www.ssrg.ece.vt.edu/) at Virginia Tech. The position involves conducting research at the intersection of program analysis and formal verification toward developing trustworthy tools for reasoning about safety and security properties. Opportunities exist to investigate a broad set of topics including highly scalable program analysis tools for detecting violations of safety and security properties, techniques for verified operating system kernel extensions, logic frameworks for automatic reasoning of security vulnerabilities, verified decompilation, and automatic patching with provable security properties. Opportunities also exist to investigate project-relevant topics of mutual interest.

Required Qualifications

• PhD in computer science or computer engineering with background and expertise in any of the following areas are sought: formal verification, proof assistants and verification tools, binary/program analysis, or compilers.
• Candidates must have a well-established track record of published research at relevant conferences and journals at the level commensurate with a Research Associate Professor ranking.
• Experience developing proposals and managing funded programs as Principal Investigator (or Co-Principal Investigator).
• Experience mentoring PhD and MS students.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work under limited supervision.

Overtime Status

Exempt: Not eligible for overtime

Appointment Type

Restricted

Hours per week

40+

Review Date

10/1/2025

Additional Information

Required Application Materials: Resume/CV; Cover Letter; Contact Information for 3 References

The successful candidate will be required to have a criminal conviction check.