Remote STEM Education Research Faculty (Adjunct/NSF)

Alphahire; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Alphahire invites applicants to join the AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) as Adjunct / Affiliated Research Faculty in STEM education and workforce domains. This remote-first opportunity supports university and community-college partnerships on WIL-aligned sponsored projects, with travel as required for field work.

You will contribute research design, collaborate with PIs and partners, and help translate findings into K-14 classroom and workforce pathways, serving as content leads or

Qualifications

• Doctorate or equivalent credentials in engineering education, STEM education, CS education, learning sciences, or related field.
• Demonstrated STEM education research with publications, funded projects, or citeable roles.
• Ability to collaborate with university or community-college sponsored-research teams and K-14 partners.
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Contribute research design, methods, and scholarly framing for university-hosted sponsored projects.
• Collaborate with institutional PIs, school-district or community-college partners, and WIL research leads on research questions, curricula translation, and broader-impacts narratives.
• Support K-14 educator research-experience models, classroom/curriculum follow-on, and workforce pathway documentation when the project design calls for it.
• Produce high-quality written products — literature framing, methods sections, evaluation plans, progress reports, and past-performance narrative — suitable for NSF-style and related education packages.
• Contribute specialist qualifications and citeable past projects to WIL grant and sponsored-research packages when permissioned.

Education

PhD or equivalent in STEM education

Job description

Alphahire invites applicants to join the AlphaHire Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) as Adjunct / Affiliated Research Faculty in STEM education and workforce domains. This remote-first opportunity supports university and community-college partnerships on WIL-aligned sponsored projects, with travel as required for field work.

You will contribute research design, collaborate with PIs and partners, and help translate findings into K-14 classroom and workforce pathways, serving as content leads or