"Postdoctoral Researcher"

The Environment, Biology, Nuclear Science & Nonproliferation Directorate conducts fundamental research and develops technology to enable the transition to a secure, sustainable and resilient net-zero society.

The postdoctoral position will conduct research on state-of-art AI models with the specific goal to improve geospatial imagery analysis.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct independent research
• Report on results of the research in form of presentations, publications
• Develop and test AI models
• Innovate on different AI architectures
• Integrate AI models with other software tools
• Develop, test and implement data pipelines

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Required PhD in geosciences, computer science, engineering or related field
• Proven research record in geospatial AI as evidenced by publications
• Expertise with development of AI models
• Hands-on programming expertise
• Explainable, ethical AI
• Knowledge about vision transformers, self-supervised learning
• Broad familiarity with geospatial programming libraries

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Non-LLM foundation model expertise
• Time Series Foundation Models
• Expertise with Graph transformers
• Knowledge with multi-modal masked auto encoders
• Expertise in developing larger-scale AI models (SLURM)

Other Information:

• Position is location onsite in Upton, NY
• BNL policy requires that after obtaining a PhD, eligible candidates for research associate appointments may not exceed a combined total of 5 years of relevant work experience as a post-doc and/or in an R&D position, excluding time associated with family planning, military service, illness or other life-changing events.
• Candidates must have completed all degree requirements by the commencement of the employment.
• Brookhaven National Laboratory is committed to providing fair, equitable and competitive compensation. The full salary range for this position is $74050 - $79500 / year. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate's qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.

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