Careers

With more than 18,000 faculty and staff, UBC is one of British Columbia’s largest workforces. We are also one of the most progressive, consistently recognized as one of BC’s best employers.

Landing a job in high tech

Bowen Hui from the computer science department gives students an inside look at the process of landing a job in high tech.

 

Faculty and Staff Careers

We value our faculty and staff members and are always looking for talented people to join our thriving team. Excellent benefits, diverse career opportunities, and a true community spirit are just some of the reasons you should consider joining our team of talented, dynamic faculty and staff. For a full list of current openings, visit UBC’s Staff & Faculty Careers page.

SESSIONAL LECTURER POSTINGS

We also hire faculty into term appointments for a specified period of time for courses taught in the Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics. Sessional lecturers teach and/or perform related duties, including course coordination or lab supervision, for a period of less than 12 months.

CURRENT POSTINGS

Term 1 and 2

A capstone project requiring team software development for an actual client. Students must produce a comprehensive report and deliver a formal presentation.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Analytic geometry in two and three dimensions, partial and directional derivatives, chain rule, maxima and minima, second derivative test, Lagrange multipliers, multiple integrals with applications.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Systems of linear equations, operations on matrices, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of symmetric matrices, and vector geometry.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Term 1

Techniques for computation, analysis, and visualization of data using software. Manipulation of small and large data sets. Databases. Automation using scripting. Real-world applications from life sciences, physical sciences, economics, engineering, or psychology. No prior computing background is required. Cannot be used for credits toward a major in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, or Statistics.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Introduction to the design, implementation, and understanding of computer programs. Topics include problem solving, algorithm design, and data and procedural abstraction, with emphasis on the development of working programs.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Introduction to the design, implementation and analysis of data structures. Topics will include lists, stacks, queues, trees, and graphs.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Computer interaction design principles, advanced methodologies and theories; novel interfaces and platforms, conceptualization from ideation to implementation, advanced techniques for evaluation including controlled quantitative evaluation, field evaluation, quantitative analysis; introduction to HCI research. (Cross-listed with COSC 541)

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Derivatives of elementary functions, limits. Covers applications and modelling: graphing and optimization.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Mechanics primarily for students majoring in the life sciences (e.g. biochemistry, biology, microbiology, pharmacy, human kinetics, human geography or psychology). Particle kinematics and dynamics, work and energy, momentum, gravitation, rigid body motion, fluid statics and dynamics with applications to the biological sciences.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Term 2

Advanced programming in the application of software engineering techniques to the design and implementation of programs manipulating complex data structures.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Sets, logic, combinatorics, and graph theory, as applied in computing: sets and propositions, permutations and combinations, graphs and trees, Boolean algebra, algorithms, and applications.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

The five-layer Internet architecture using TCP/IP: application, transport, network, link, and physical. Topics include web protocols, network programming, routing, addressing, congestion control, error handling, Ethernet, wireless networks, security, multimedia transmission, and network management.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

History of human-computer interaction. Basic design principles, user-centered design, user task analysis, interaction models, input and output devices, graphical interface design, prototyping, and evaluation.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Definite integral, integration techniques, applications, modelling, linear ODE’s.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Physics primarily for students majoring in the life sciences. Simple harmonic motion, sound, physical and wave optics, electricity, electric circuits, and magnetism with biological applications. Experimental laboratory investigations in electricity, magnetism, waves and optics.

Applicants with a PhD in a relevant or related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred. Interested applicants should submit a Curriculum vitae (including but not limited to previous teaching experience), recent teaching evaluations (if available), and the name of three referees who have agreed to submit letters of reference on request.

Deadline for receipt of applications for the summer session is March 18, 2024. Please send application documents in electronic format using WORD or PDF files to the Head of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics: cmps.okanagan@ubc.ca or send documents to:

Dr. Sylvie Desjardins

University of British Columbia – Okanagan

Science 200C

1177 Research Road
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

Phone: 1-250-807-8032

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca. All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department $3093.57 equaling $9280.71 per 3 credit course.

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.

Student Positions

Teaching Assistants

Each academic year, we have openings for Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) and possibly Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) for courses in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Data Science and Astronomy in the summer session and the winter session. In both terms of the summer session (Term 1: May – June and Term 2: July – August) and both terms of the winter session (Term 1: September – December and Term 2: January – April).

The Teaching Assistant duties may include, but are not limited to:

  • Instruction in labs, tutorials and seminars
  • Marking assignments, labs, and exams
  • Lecture support
  • Invigilation duties
  • Academic assistance to students in office hours

The hours will not exceed an average of 12 hours per week. Wages are per the new BCGEU Collective Agreement.

UBC Okanagan hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from women, visible minority group members, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. However, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.

Applications open February 22, 2024
Deadline for S2024 applications: March 15, 2024
Deadline for W2024 applications: April 30, 2024

APPLY NOW

Please get in touch with cdavis.cmpsta@ubc.ca for inquiries.

UBC Okanagan hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from women, visible minority group members, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. However, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.