"Post Doctoral Research Associate - College of Aeronautics"

The College of Aeronautics at Florida Institute of Technology invites applicants for a full-time Post Doctoral Research Associate. Position is located in Melbourne, Florida. This position is a temporary position, for up to three years. The position will be funded via a NASA University Leadership Initiative (ULI) to conduct research under the TRANSCEND Project, Trustworthy Resilient Autonomous Agents for Safe City transportation in the Evolving New Decade. TRANSCEND is a 3-year research effort to develop a framework and tools to ensure the trustworthiness of learning-enabled increasingly autonomous systems.

Job Responsibilities :

• Maintain a depth knowledge of knowledge in the specialized fields of study
• Exercise independent discretion and judgment in carrying out research activities within the predetermined research scope and methodology
• Manage and conduct simulation-based experimental research, including establishing theoretical foundations, research design, study implementation, analysis and write-up of findings
• Publish research findings in academic journals and present at academic conference
• Conduct user-centered design and evaluation of operational toolkits
• Manage a research team of undergraduate and graduate student researchers
• Collaborate with researchers at other universities and labs
• Plan and implement educational outreach events
• Support program reviews with NASA program management
• Support meetings with industry stakeholders and industry review board

Preferred Qualifications

Experience conducting theoretical and empirical research related to Advanced Air Mobility Experience with X-plane simulation test-bed Experience collecting and analyzing physiological data

Required Qualifications

Ph.D. degree in Aviation Sciences with a focus in Human Factors, or a related field Experience conducting theoretical and empirical research related to Human Agent/Autonomy Teaming Experience conducting simulation-based experimentation Experience leading research projects/teams