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Do you have a background in computational research and love to write code? Do you want to help enable and advance groundbreaking research in space physics? If so, Princeton University's Research Computing department is recruiting a Research Software Engineer to join its RSE Group and the Space Physics Group in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. In the Space Physics Group, you will create software that supports the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission. The probe launched in 2025 to explore the details of particle acceleration and the Sun’s interaction with the local interstellar medium. The instruments on board collect and transmit data back to Earth, providing IMAP scientists with opportunities to make new discoveries about the global heliosphere.In...
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Do you have a background in computational research and love to write code? Do you want to help enable and advance groundbreaking research in space physics? If so, Princeton University's Research Computing department is recruiting a Research Software Engineer to join its RSE Group and the Space Physics Group in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. In the Space Physics Group, you will create software that supports the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission. The probe launched in 2025 to explore the details of particle acceleration and the Sun’s interaction with the local interstellar medium. The instruments on board collect and transmit data back to Earth, providing IMAP scientists with opportunities to make new discoveries about the global heliosphere. In...
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Do you have a background in computational research and love to write code? Do you want to help enable and advance groundbreaking research in space physics? If so, Princeton University's Research Computing department is recruiting a Research Software Engineer to join its RSE Group and the Space Physics Group in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences. In the Space Physics Group, you will create software that supports the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission. The probe launched in 2025 to explore the details of particle acceleration and the Sun’s interaction with the local interstellar medium. The instruments on board collect and transmit data back to Earth, providing IMAP scientists with opportunities to make new discoveries about the global heliosphere. In...
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The mission of Princeton University Department of Athletics is to strive for excellence in academics and athletics, while embracing equity in opportunity, good sportsmanship, and ethical conduct. In keeping with this mission, the role of the Cornelia Drake and John Van Ryn Jr. '28 Assistant Coach of Women's Tennis is to provide a quality varsity program that will challenge and develop the physical, mental and personal abilities of student-athletes of a Division I program.
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The East Asian Library (EAL) at Princeton University is seeking a diligent, motivated, and independent individual to be the Library Operations Supervisor of its Public Services unit.The East Asian Library is a unique library at Princeton due to its extensive and specialized collections, space limitations, and independent interlibrary loan and technical services operations. It is one of the most famous collections of its kind in the United States, serving not only faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students at Princeton on all kinds of research on China, Japan, and Korea but also, visiting scholars from across the globe.The Operations Supervisor is fully responsible for all daily branch operations and functions of the East Asian Library, including circulation, shelving, stack...
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The Associate CIO, Administrative Applications provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for Application Services (AS) within the Office of Information Technology (OIT). This role directs and manages key units, including ERP and Custom Development, Database Administration, and Package Adoption and Configuration (PAC). The position ensures these teams deliver robust, innovative, and compliant administrative application solutions that support institutional goals and drive operational excellence across the organization. The Associate CIO is responsible for establishing a long-term vision for administrative applications, guiding modernization initiatives, and overseeing the successful transition from legacy systems to cloud-based platforms while maintaining operational...
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The Associate Vice President for Fundraising Priorities (AVP) is a strategic, creative, and highly collaborative senior leader within a high-performing University Advancement organization. Reporting directly to the Vice President for Advancement and serving as a key member of the Advancement senior leadership team, the AVP provides the vision, strategy, and momentum that drive all capital and restricted fundraising efforts across the University. The AVP plays a central role in shaping the University’s philanthropic priorities—leading the process that defines fundraising initiatives, partnering with faculty and administrative leaders to articulate compelling cases for support, and ensuring the effective “arc” of gifts from initial vision through engagement, solicitation, documentation,...
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The mission of Princeton University Department of Athletics is to strive for excellence in academics and athletics, while embracing equity in opportunity, good sportsmanship, and ethical conduct. In keeping with this mission, the role of the Coordinator of Men's Basketball Operations is to provide a quality varsity program that will challenge and develop the physical, mental and personal abilities of student-athletes of a Division I program.
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The Humanities Council is the academic home for more than 30 visiting faculty, researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and lecturers. Offering innovation grants, visiting fellowships, public lectures, and research professorships, the Council also oversees several interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs, including the PhD Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities and the Program in Journalism. A connecting force across 46 humanities-related departments, centers, programs, and committees, the Council hosts many events each year and enrolls more than 100 students in its minor degree programs, many of which include international and experiential teaching. In Fall 2027, in partnership with the Princeton Humanities Initiative, the Council will be integrated into a new humanities...
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The Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) is a premiere research institute within Princeton University's campus, dedicated to solving problems at the forefront of discovery into how the brain develops and functions, enabling cognition and behavior. Research at PNI combines expertise from neuroscience, psychology, biology, engineering, and computational science and, as a result, many faculty have joint appointments in PNI and other departments. Faculty members, research staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and administrative staff work together in a collaborative and creative environment, reflecting Princeton's reputation for excellence. PNI is seeking a Grants Manager, at the rank of ADM040, to assist with the administration of sponsored research grants for our faculty,...
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The department of Geosciences seeks a purchasing and administrative assistant to provide full administrative support to eight to ten faculty members and their research groups. This individual will be responsible for duties such (1) managing the purchasing process for lab supplies and equipment; (2) planning and organizing domestic and international travel and processing expense reports; (3) shipment of inbound and outbound equipment and scientific samples; and (4) general administrative support. A cover letter is required. The position reports to the Business Manager and collaborates with other administrative staff in the department.
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Reporting to the dean, the college office coordinator is an integral member of the college staff, working closely with the head of college, dean and other staff members to support an increasingly complex college program. The coordinator provides administrative support for the dean, assistant dean for student life, assistant dean for studies, and head of the residential college. The office coordinator has overall responsibility for maintaining confidential student files; actively manages permanent files and records using an online database; and is responsible for indexing, classifying, and archiving documents. Responsible for sensitive triage of student and parent calls and visits to the college office, exercising judgment about when urgency of situation requires escalation. Coordinates...
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The Real Estate Office is seeking a detail‑oriented summer Intern to support the organization, quality review, and digitization of real estate records as part of an ongoing initiative to upload searchable documents into an electronic document management system (i.e. Meridian). This role supports active facilities and real estate projects and offers hands‑on experience with data management, records validation, and applied research. The position also provides exposure to real estate within a higher-ed environment and is well suited for students interested in real estate, facilities, planning, geography, public policy, data management, or information systems. You will connect documents to real buildings and assets, participate in property research and walkthroughs, and gain insight into...
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The Cost Database Support Associate provides dedicated support for the creation, maintenance, and ongoing updating of historical cost databases across a variety of project types. This position plays a critical role in ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of cost data used for project benchmarking, estimating, and portfolio-level reporting. Working closely with project teams, consultants, and internal stakeholders, the Associate supports routine and ad hoc data updates and helps maintain standardized, high-quality cost information. This position is temporary.
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The Contractor Escort supports the Office of Capital Projects by providing required escort services for outside contractors working within Princeton University facilities. This role helps safeguard campus safety, security, and property integrity while enabling construction, maintenance, and renovation activities during the summer period.Reporting to the Administrative Coordinator, Project Manager, and/or Construction Manager, the Contractor Escort serves as a visible and dependable representative of Facilities, demonstrating professionalism, discretion, and a strong commitment to customer service. This position is temporary.
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The Department of Physics seeks a Grants Manager to assist with pre-award (proposal submission) and post-award management of sponsored research projects for 12 Physics PIs (as well as their groups which include researchers, technicians, post docs, graduate students and undergraduate students. This also includes monitoring the PI's startup and rebate programs. In addition, the Grants Manager processes and approves journals, approves NPOs (non-PO payments), approves Concur reports, works with the graduate administrator to assign chartstrings for graduate students, and other duties as assigned.
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The Princeton University Office of Undergraduate Admission invites applications for the position of Admission Officer. Princeton, a private institution located in central New Jersey, typically receives over 40,000 applications for it first year class. The office of admission uses a holistic process to review applications to select the incoming class of approximately 1425 students. The admission officer is responsible for articulating the mission of Princeton University and conveying its policies and procedures to applicants, parents, school counselors, alumni and University personnel. The admission officer also fully participates in the selection and yield processes of the office.
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The Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute at Princeton University is seeking a skilled Project Manager to join the Avalos Lab in an exciting new multi-institutional project to develop a Sargassum seaweed BioRefinery (SaBRe) to produce biofuels, chemicals, food, materials, and other products for renewable energy and sustainable biomanufacturing (for more information visit www.SaBReproject.org). The team is comprised of thirteen research groups across nine institutions, with expertise in marine biology, microbiology, bioengineering, systems/synthetic biology, enzyme engineering, chemical engineering, fermentation, anaerobic digestion, hydrothermal liquefaction, and technoeconomic analysis.
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We seek to hire a talented, independent, and motivated Research Specialist to support the growth of the FFCWS (Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Studies), providing strong technical skills to append contextual and administrative data to the survey as well as data management, quality assurance, and operational support. This position will have a significant role in data quality assurance and programming for the Year 27 wave of data collection, developing new supplemental administrative data files to append to FFCWS data, and providing technical data support and outreach for FFCWS. This position will support Principal Investigators and collaborators, project staff, students, and external researchers using the FFCWS data.The ideal applicant will: (1) have strong programming skills...
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As part of University Advancement Data Strategy and Innovation team, the role of the Associate Director, Data Science is to turn data into tactical information and knowledge by applying statistical, algorithmic, mining and visualization techniques. Data Strategy and Innovation plays a critical strategic role within Advancement, providing the analytical framework, data architecture, application development, and tools for data-driven decision making at all levels of the organization. The person in this role should be a creative thinker and propose innovative ways to look at problems that can be used to make sound organizational decisions. The Associate Director, Data Science will need to be able to present their findings and communicate data in ways that can be easily understood by...
