Job Opportunities
at SSPI
No ordinary summer job, the Summer Science Program is a unique opportunity to teach and mentor some of the most promising STEM students of their cohort in the world.
Since 1999, SSP International has operated as a fully remote organization with no central office. Our year-round staff work from home, collaborating across time zones to create exceptional educational experiences for students.
Faculty at SSPI’s Summer Science Program join a team leading 36 amazing young people on a college campus through an intense and fully immersive university-level research project.
Living and working together on a university campus, you will dive into hands-on science in a supportive and close-knit community. It’s an experience that can’t be thoroughly captured in a written job description. It’s gratifying and fulfilling, but as with other unusually rewarding experiences in life, also challenging… and sometimes exhausting.
Faculty compensation includes salary and all meals. For faculty not local to the assigned campus, we also provide housing and travel. (While we try to accommodate family members and pets, our ability to do so is limited.)
Faculty Positions (Summer Only)
Teaching Assistants/Residential Mentors
SSPI Staff Positions (Year-round)
Programs
Visit the program page to see 2025 dates and campuses.
Teaching at SSP
Since 1959, hundreds of scientists have been associated with SSP as a student, faculty, or both, including George Abell (UCLA), Edmund Bertschinger (MIT), Ronald Irving (Univ. of Washington), Ed Krupp (Griffith Observatory), Jerry Nelson (UC Santa Cruz), Douglas Richstone (Univ. of Michigan), Thomas Steiman-Cameron (Indiana Univ.), Elizabeth Simmons (UC San Diego), Nicholas Suntzeff (Texas A&M), Robert Tarjan (Princeton), Alma Zook (Pomona), and many more.
"There is a beautiful freedom in working with talented students in the absence of grades or other distractions. Not being expected to know all the answers makes them willing to guess creatively and question how we know what we know. It is a joy to work with young people who are so excited to find experts who can answer their questions!"
"One of the things that drew me to SSP was seeing firsthand how everyone involved cares enough about each other to listen to understand, rather than just listening to respond, and that means a lot."
"SSP has been a refreshing and satisfying teaching experience, working with some of the brightest young scientific minds out there! Their level of enthusiasm, curiosity, and engagement surpasses anything I have experienced teaching undergraduate college courses."
"My summers with SSP were some of the best of my life, and I'm incredibly thankful to have had the opportunity to be a part of such an amazing program not once, but twice."
“As an educator, it was my privilege to interact with such motivated, driven and capable participants. It is indeed the experience of a lifetime not just for the participants but also for the faculty.”