Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA

Salary
Posted
Jul 10, 2026
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

An entry-level role within a university's central IT department, focused on helping faculty and staff adopt AI tools through day-to-day user support, documentation, and training coordination. Core work involves answering support requests, producing how-to guides and knowledge base content, and assisting with workshops and events. Suited to early-career candidates with a background in technical support, instructional design, communications, or a related area.

Junior level · Pittsburgh, PA · Full-time

Nice to have (2)
AI toolsknowledge base authoring

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Why we read it this way (6)

This role sits at the boundary of technical and non-technical work. The job function is listed as 'Business Analysis and Process Improvement' and the day-to-day work is primarily user support, training coordination, documentation, and AI enablement — not systems analysis in the traditional IT sense. 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is the closest fit given the business-analysis framing and the IT department context, but non-technology is a genuine alternative given how much of the role is program coordination, communications, and training delivery.

No specific technologies are hard-required. The posting explicitly states candidates do not need to be AI experts and frames all technical experience as preferred or contextual. The three skills listed above all appear in preferred/contextual framing: AI tools familiarity is described as something to learn on the job; knowledge base and documentation experience is 'preferred'; instructional design appears only in the list of preferred degree fields.

A bachelor's degree is explicitly 'preferred' rather than required ('or an equivalent combination of education and experience'), so the degree requirement is set to None.

No compensation figures are provided in the posting.

The role is described as early-career ('AI Enablement Associate'), with scope limited to supporting senior colleagues — consistent with a Junior band despite no explicit level label in the title.

Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): instructional design.

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