"Postdoctoral Fellow - Robotics Institute"

Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute is searching for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in an interesting and challenging work environment.

The Postdoctoral Research Associate is to carry out advanced independent and/or directed research to achieve the objectives of the research project. This position will require an in depth knowledge of a specialized field, process, or discipline and may involve organizing and implementing complex research plans, the development of methods of research, testing and data collection, analysis and evaluation, and writing reports which contain descriptive, analytical and evaluative content. The purpose of this role is to acquire the professional skills needed to pursue a career path of his or her choosing.

Responsibilities:

• Collect and analyze data, including periodical/literature search and utilizing specialized skills in related field to analyze the collected data.
• Conduct research experiments within the predetermined research scope and methodology of department and university.
• In addition, the applicant will be expected to have a set of independent exploratory projects whose purpose is to seek other avenues of advancing algorithmic foundations in robotics.
• Lab maintenance, including equipment maintenance and ordering of supplies may be required depending on area and specialty.
• Participate/assist in manuscript writing for publication in scientific journals and/or presentations. May also assist in grant writing.
• The applicant is expected to join and develop various ambitious projects whose goal is to advance intelligent robotic systems capable of accomplishing, and exceeding, human-level intelligence tasks and providing human-robot assistance. This would require that the applicant be involved in grant writing, developing project ideas both independently and within a group, and be expected to lead graduate students and research staff towards completion of project goals in the form of academic writing to top-tier conferences and journals.
• The applicant will conduct weekly meetings with the CMU group and any external collaborator.
• The candidate will also be expected to travel to conferences and give talks about the current work.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Doctorate Degree Required

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Job Function: Pre/Post-Doctoral Associates & Fellows

Position Type: Postdoctoral Associate / Fellow (Fixed Term)

Full Time/Part time: Full time

Pay Basis: Salary