Following a Junior Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, and a Warwick Research Fellowship at the University of Warwick, Steve Hindle was appointed Professor of History at Warwick in 2003. After sixteen years in the Warwick History Department, he assumed the W. M. Keck Foundation Directorship of Research at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California in 2011, where he spent eleven years (including two as Interim President). He was appointed to the Hirst Chair in Early Modern British History at Washington University in St. Louis in 2022.