In 1992 Soker has received the Alon Fellowship and returned to Israel to become an assistant professor at the Mathematics-Physics Department of the University of Haifa at Oranim. He was promoted to associate professor in 1994, and to full professor in 1998. From 1994 to 1998 he served as the chairman of the Mathematics-Physics Department. In 2003 he moved to the Department of Physics at the Technion, and served as the chair of the physics department for six years (2009–2015). Soker is presently the dean of science in the Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He is also appointed as the head of the Center for Pre-University Studies at the Technion.