For Job Seekers
Be part of a community that collaborates across every role and discipline to advance human health through exceptional care, education and research.
Faculty opportunities
Pursue your path. With outstanding infrastructure, robust research funding and a culture built for breakthroughs, WashU Medicine empowers you to move medicine forward while achieving your own career aspirations.
Staff opportunities
Unite in purpose. Every role at WashU Medicine — whether in research labs, clinical settings, facilities, classrooms or support offices — contributes to work that changes lives.
“If you want to leave your mark on the world, there is no better place.”
— David H. Perlmutter, MD
Executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean
WashU Medicine
Working at WashU Medicine
The Washington University Medical Campus is home to a dynamic community of students, faculty and staff dedicated to excellence in education, research and patient care. This community also includes patients, employees and visitors at nationally ranked Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Siteman Cancer Center and reaches across 130+ WashU Medicine clinical care sites in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois.
To support this robust community, WashU Medicine offers a wide range of fulfilling career opportunities for people who have a passion for helping others. Our staff is made up of IT experts, scientists, accountants, electricians, business administrators, nurses, communications specialists and more. Faculty and postdoc positions include abundant opportunities in education, leadership, research and medicine.
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Supported, resourced and valued
Success in medicine takes more than brilliance — it requires a supportive environment at every level. Here, you’ll find what you need to do your best work.
Time for you
Full-time employees — including new hires — have 30 combined days of vacation and holidays, in addition to sick leave. Faculty and staff are also encouraged to participate in wellness initiatives and take advantage of family care options.
Work-life-balance »
Benefits you can count on
Benefit packages for eligible employees include health, vision and dental coverage, tuition assistance, retirement savings, health savings account options and more.
Employee benefits »
Lifelong learning
In addition to intellectually stimulating work experiences and tuition reimbursement, employees develop their talents and skills through workplace training and other professional development opportunities.
Learning and development »
Inclusive and engaged
Our strength comes from bringing together people with varying perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. In intention, policy and action, we are deeply committed to building an equitable and inclusive community.
Diversity, equity and inclusion »
Transportation options
Access to expressways, bike routes and car-sharing programs make it easy for employees across the St. Louis region to get to work. (Some lucky employees even commute through Forest Park.) Employees receive free Metro passes, and the Central West End MetroLink light rail station stops right in the heart of the Medical Campus.
Transportation services »
Healthier planet
In addition to ambitious goals for greenhouse gas reduction and LEED building certification, the university encourages employees to adopt individual and office-wide measures to reduce their footprint.
Sustainability at WashU Medicine »
All the extras
Employee perks include access to home-buying assistance, staff discounts with select suppliers, annual Metro passes, discounts on St. Louis Cardinals, Blues, CITY SC, Black Rep, Fox, and Symphony tickets, and more. Employees are also part of a rich learning environment with a steady supply of talks, exhibits, performances and other events held on the Medical and Danforth campuses.
University perks »
Job search resources
It is the policy of the university to: (1) provide equal employment opportunity to all job applicants and employees; (2) administer recruiting, hiring, compensation and benefit practices, training, upgrading and promotion procedures, transfers and terminations of employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin (including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics), citizenship (where prohibited by federal law), age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, disability, or genetic information; (3) provide a workplace free from discrimination or harassment based on any of the foregoing classifications; and (4) encourage the hiring of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Inquiries about compliance should be addressed to the University’s Vice Chancellor for Human Resources, Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1184, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, 63130.