Current Career Opportunities
Our vision is to deliver the best technical leadership engineering education in and across the world, to Fung Fellows, Engineering Master’s candidates, doctoral students, and professional organizations.
As we scale this vision, we’re exploring new models of collaboration that reflect the innovation mindset of the nation’s #1 public engineering school. For those interested in partnering to shape the future of engineering leadership education, we’d welcome your application.
The Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) program invites graduate students from diverse disciplines to join our Spring 2027 teaching assistant (TA) team. We seek motivated individuals who are passionate about providing constructive feedback and mentorship to aspiring engineering leaders as they develop innovative technologies with commercial and societal impact. TAs play a key role in helping students strengthen their communication skills, particularly in writing and presentations, to prepare them for leadership in engineering and beyond.
We will begin reviewing applications on a rolling basis and start interviewing candidates after November 4, 2026.
(TA Positions available) ENGIN 295 Communication for Engineering Leaders (1 unit):
This MEng Technical Communications course focuses on developing students’ presentation and writing skills, as well as their ability to collaborate effectively in teams, using the technical capstone project as the foundation for course assignments. Teaching assistants will lead breakout sessions and provide in-class support for ENGIN 295: Communications for Engineering Leaders.
Responsibilities also include providing detailed, constructive feedback on students’ presentations, written work, and participation in discussions. TAs will work closely with the course lecturer(s) to develop and deliver instruction that strengthens students’ rhetorical skills and their ability to communicate technical ideas effectively to diverse audiences.
Required Qualifications:
- Available for a 50% commitment
- Able to model and teach effective verbal and written communication
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Desire to work with an internationally diverse groups of masters students
- Interest in management, leadership and teamwork topics
Preferred Qualifications:
- Past experience as a TA/GSI or Reader
- Technical or scientific background
- Formal education or experience in communications, rhetoric, or verbal leadership
- ABD (all but dissertation) PhD candidates with a flexible schedule; we also hire excellent masters students.
HOW TO APPLY:
- Learn more about the program at: meng.berkeley.edu
- Please apply by completing this online application form, which includes uploading a PDF of your resume: https://deptapps.berkeley.edu/ase/fung/apply/s2027
- We will begin reviewing candidates on a rolling basis starting November 4.
- Questions? Please contact funghiring@berkeley.edu
As staff of the Fung Institute, we are committed to:
- Serve students first. We prioritize improving, enhancing, and supporting the student experience.
- Help each other succeed. We go the extra mile, proactively share information, and support each other with a bias to action. The success of one is the success of all.
- Have a growth mindset. We question the status quo, are open to new ideas, and seek innovative ways of working.
- Speaking-up. We actively contribute, ask for help, and voice what’s on our minds. We communicate why and how decisions are made.
- Inclusion. We seek diversity, create opportunities, and make space for everyone to be idea generators, problem solvers, and decision-makers.
- Accountability. We hold ourselves and each other to the highest standards —as servants of students, the university, and the public.
