Project Scientist - Robotics Institute

Project Scientist - Robotics Institute

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

We are seeking creative and energetic Project Scientist that is responsible for determining priorities for project area based on overall organizational goals. The incumbent will direct the work of project members to ensure goals are achieved. Frequently presents research findings to current or potential sponsors and at major national or international conferences.

Responsibilities:

• Acts as team leader, providing project management direction.
• Contribute to research dissemination by assisting with experiment design, data interpretation, figure generation, technical documentation, and preparation of conference and journal publications.
• Contributor in developing and documenting research findings and collaborator in writing scientific papers.
• Lead research efforts within main goals of project, and help coordinate interactions with other team members and universities.
• Process, clean, edit, and analyze experimental data from wearable sensors, video, physiological sensing systems, and motion capture pipelines to support machine learning and computer vision research.
• Propose and lead independent research goals within scope of projects.
• Support multimodal human behavior research by conducting motion capture sessions, collecting and organizing large-scale datasets, and assisting with user study execution across laboratory and real-world environments.
• Writing documentation, technical papers, progress reports and participating in meetings/committees.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Strong Analytical Skills
• Excellent Oral and Written Communication
• Excellent Project Management Skills
• 5-8 Years of Research Experience

Training:

• OSHA - Hazardous Materials Safety Training