Executive Director

The Office of the Vice President for Research at Carnegie Mellon University is seeking a highly motivated, resourceful, and trustworthy individual to support our senior leadership team as Executive Director of the Carnegie Mellon AI-Enabled Automated Science Initiative. The Executive Director will play a central role in ensuring that Carnegie Mellon’s ambition to pioneer the future of automated science is reified across University stakeholders, draws in operational external public and private collaborations, and has a practical, immediate and durable operational grounding. Leadership by this individual will propel the University and its Colleges with a well-managed, cost-effective, high-performance asset in the CMU Cloud Lab that sustains high quality research, which in turn attracts high profile external investment for years to come.

This role requires significant operational roll-up-sleeves work, including taking responsibility for assuring that the CMU Cloud Lab director and operations managers complete the installation, verification and initial launch of the automated instruments and software platforms to operate the CMU Cloud Lab according to target specifications. This ...