Research Associate II - Robotics Institute

Responsibilities

• Collects, verifies and manages data. Performs data analysis in order to produce reports. Documents and processes results. Develops quantitative models.
• Contributes to overall project planning and acts as lead to coordinate portions of a large project or study. Ensures project deadlines are met.
• Contribute to open-source release of ARISTOS codebase, assist in preparing research publications, and support development of evaluation benchmarks for trainee competence assessment.
• Design and execute evaluation benchmarks for the ARISTOS prototype system, including metrics for trainee competence assessment, system accuracy on drone repair tasks, and generalization to unseen devices and failure modes.
• Develop few-shot multimodal reasoning and generative video models for the ARISTOS reskilling platform, including building pipelines for contextualized step-by-step instructional video synthesis for physical task training.
• Leverage spatial information, part segmentation, 3D reconstruction, and tactile inputs to physically ground vision-language model (VLM) agents, enabling them to reason about object pose, part affordances, and manipulation dynamics for mechatronic device diagnosis and repair.
• Maintains administrative records. Tracks and adheres to established budgets.
• May program software in support of job functions.
• With some supervision, designs experiments and research protocols.
• Writes and edits recommendations and reports.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• Strong Analytical Skills
• Strong Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Strong Problem-Solving and Reasoning Skills
• 3-5 Years of Research Experience
• 3-5 years of data collection and analysis experience
• 3-5 Years of Research Lab Experience
• 3-5 Years of Research Methodology Experience

Training

• OSHA Hazardous Materials Safety Training