School of STEM Employment

STEM Faculty Employment Opportunities

View the available Faculty Listings

Staff Employment Opportunities

View the available non-academic Staff Listings

STEM Student Employment Opportunities

All on-campus student jobs are advertised on HuskyHires on a quarterly basis.  Look for Biology, CSS, Engineering and Mathematics, and Physical Sciences listings.

Qualifications

Student employees must be current full-time students—enrolled at the University of Washington for at least 6 credits if they are an undergraduate or 4 credits if they are a graduate student during autumn quarter, unless they are in “on leave” status because they were enrolled for at least 6 (or 4 as a graduate student) academic credits during the previous quarter. International students who graduated the previous quarter are not eligible to be hired as student graders. 

Start date

Students are not allowed to begin grading/facilitating before their employment paperwork has been submitted and entered and they are notified by UWB Payroll that they are in the Workday system. This is a federal law that the School of STEM must follow.

Academic Student Employees Hourly Pay Rates

The following pay rates apply to hourly academic student employee positions in the School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The School of STEM and other schools may employ students with different job titles and at different pay rates.

Classification Job Duties

Undergraduate (UG) or Graduate (Grad) Student Employee

Job Code Hourly Rate (effective 7/1/18)

Hourly Rate (effective 1/1/2019)

Reader/Grader Non-teaching, non-research academic assistance UG 10886 $15.76 to $15.92 $16.00
Grad 10886 $16.98 $16.98
UG Teaching Assistant (peer facilitators and lab assistants) Assistance in teaching UG 10868 $15.76 to $15.92 $16.00
UG Research Assistant Assistance in research UG 10869 $15.76 to $17.00 $16.00 to $17.00
Grad Research Assistant Assistance in research Grad varies See Graduate School salary schedules
Grad Teaching Assistant Assistance in teaching Grad varies

Career Services

The UW Bothell Career Services center has a wealth of general information about resumes, interviewing, internships and off-campus student jobs.