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

2024W – TERM 2 (JANUARY 1 TO APRIL 30, 2025)

Knowledge and skills to navigate the digital society. Digital participation, digital access, skills and utilization. Digital literacy, computer applications, converging technologies, and online resources. This course does not assume students have any Computer Science background.


Applicants with a PhD in the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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 the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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.

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 the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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.

A hands-on introduction to programming and computer-based problem-solving and creativity. Experience with application development including storytelling, graphics, games, and networking.


Applicants with a PhD in the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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 the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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.

Design and implementation of parallel programs including theoretical computer models, parallel architectures (distributed, multicore, GPU), and standard parallel libraries.


Applicants with a PhD in the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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.

Interpretation of data. Argumentation: hypothesis, claim, evidence and inference. Model limitations: bias, validity, reliability, sensitive analysis. Communication of recommendations to decision-makers. Restricted to students in the MDS program.


Applicants with a PhD in the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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 Bayesian paradigm and tools for Data Science. Topics include Bayes theorem, prior, likelihood and posterior. A detailed analysis of the cases of binomial, normal samples, normal linear regression models. A significant focus will be on computational aspects of Bayesian problems using software packages. Restricted to students in the MDS program.


Applicants with a PhD in the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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.

Splines. Smoothing. Generalized linear models. Generalized additive models. An introduction to mixed models. Restricted to students in the MDS program.


Applicants with a PhD in the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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 the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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.

Covers analytic functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations, power series, Laurent series, elementary functions, contour integrals, and poles and residues. Introduction to conformal mapping and applications of analysis to problems in physics and engineering.


Applicants with a PhD in the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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.

Descriptive and inferential statistics, elementary probability, probability distributions, estimation of parameters, hypotheses testing, correlation, linear regression.


Applicants with a PhD in the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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 surveys and simple sampling strategies; descriptive methods for one and two variables; frequency distributions; correlation and regression; descriptive methods for time series and index numbers; and probability and relationship to statistical inference.


Applicants with a PhD in the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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.

2024/2025 W – TERM 1 to Term 2 (SEPTEMBER 1, 2024 TO APRIL 30, 2025)

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 the discipline, or a related discipline, and relevant research and post-secondary teaching experience are preferred.

Deadline for receipt of applications is midnight on Friday, July 19, 2024. 

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

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

All positions are subject to funding and enrolment. The compensation rate per credit per period for the department is $11000.00 – $12000.00 per 3-credit course.

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Dr. Sylvie Desjardins at cmps.depthead@ubc.ca.

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.