"Research Assistant (LEAP-LA Project)"

Department:

International Engineering College

Vacancy ID:

038603

Closing Date:

10-Dec-2025

The Accelerating Research to Commercialisation (ARC) Hub Programme aims to establish a new model for regional innovation and entrepreneurial training, that will catalyse a step-change in the translation of cutting-edge publicly funded research toward impact at a regional level. The ARC Hubs will enhance and accelerate the commercialisation of research to create new products, processes and services. The ARC Hub for ICT Programme is co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union under two European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Regional Programmes - the Southern, Eastern and Midland Regional Programme 2021-2027 and the Northern and Western Regional Programme 2021-2027.

Funded by the ARC Hub for ICT Programme, the LEAP-LA team is seeking a passionate candidate to join as a research assistant. The successful candidate will contribute to frontier AI research while also engaging in an entrepreneurial journey in the field of Educational AI. This position is anticipated to be 12 months duration, with a possible extension for up to a total of 24 months.

LEAP-LA pioneers agentic AI solutions aimed at reframing Learning Experiences and Advancing Practices with Learning Agents. The team envisions an AI assessment platform that delivers activities that can seek students’ thinking in action during assessment. Particularly, LEAP-LA focuses on cultivating three essential skill domains: 1) storytelling and communication with debating agents; 2) reasoning and problem-solving with coding agents; 3) creativity and design with humanoid agents.

The goal of LEAP-LA is to develop and commercialize scalable, student-centered solutions for AI-Led assessment, where high-quality evaluation becomes both personalized and scalable through agentic AI technologies.

Salary Scale:

Research Assistant (Level 1): € 33,292 p.a (1 point)

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.

Closing Date:

23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Wednesday 10th of December 2025.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified above. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system.

Late applications will not be accepted.

Maynooth University is an equal opportunities employer

The position is subject to the Statutes of the University