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.)
SSPI Staff Positions (Year-round)
Faculty Positions (Summer Only)
Academic Directors
Teaching Assistants/Residential Mentors
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.