Positions Available

Faculty Positions

  • No positions available at this time.

Lecturer Positions

  • No positions available at this time.

Postdoctoral Positions

  • Post-doctoral Research Position in Dynamics of Geotechnical Systems (Download PDF)
    For more information on the positions, please contact Prof. Domniki Asimaki (domnikicaltech.edu).

  • Multi-disciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Position (Download PDF)

  • Postdoctoral Position in the Application of Machine Learning in Multi-scale Modeling of Materials
    Applications are sought for the position of Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D with experience in Computational Mechanics, Computational Materials Science or Computational Mathematics, with an interest in the use of Machine Learning methods. Experience with Machine Learning methods is desirable, but not required. The candidate will work with Kaushik Bhattacharya to develop numerically efficient and physically meaningful machine-learnt surrogates of fine-scale behavior in the context of plasticity, fracture and other inelastic phenomena, and those that can be employed in large-scale models. The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Please apply by email to Kaushik Bhattacharya, (bhatta@caltech.edu) (cc. Stacie Takase, (stakase@caltech.edu) with a CV, 1-2 publications and a list of 2-4 references.


Staff Positions

Campus-wide employment opportunities for staff positions are listed on the Human Resources website.

Summer Internships

Summer Internships are available through the SURF program. Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships program introduces students to research under the guidance of seasoned research mentors at Caltech and JPL.


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