Tenure-Track Position in Computer Systems for AI and High-Performance Computing
University of Alberta — Edmonton, AB, Canada
Posted 2026-10-20
Location - This role is in-person. Work primarily takes place at North Campus, Edmonton. The Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, starting as early as July 1st, 2027, in the broad area of Computer Systems. The areas of interest include but are not limited to: computer architecture for heterogeneous computing: CPUs, GPUs, and linear-algebra accelerators memory and storage hierarchy, especially filesystems operating systems, runtimes, and resource management compilers and programming systems distributed systems and parallel computing architectures hardware/software/algorithm co-design analytical and empirical performance evaluation of computer systems (including sustainability) The Department of Computing Science is one of the largest and oldest computing science departments in Canada. The Department has 54 tenured/tenure-track faculty members and 8 academic teaching staff who are recognized for their excellence in research and teaching at the international, national, and university level. The Department’s student population involves over 400 graduate and 2400 undergraduate students. The tot