TEMP-Engineering (Electrical & Computer Engr)

Job Details

Job Title: TEMP-Engineering (Electrical & Computer Engr)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Temporary
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 298241

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Summary

Provide engineering services in support of systems and equipment associated with research efforts within an academic or research unit or laboratory. Specific duties will be determined based on assignment and unit needs. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: unit management and staffThis position typically will advise and counsel: unit management and staffThis position will supervise: NA

Job Summary

Duties for this role include conducting research into sheaf-theoretic models of control and optimization, with an emphasis on asynchronous multi-agent coordination algorithms. The person filling this role is also expected to collaborate with existing lab personnel on research into related topics, and to collaborate on the dissemination of these findings through research publications at conferences and in journals.

Responsibilities

• Job Duty 1 -
  Participate in the design, installation and testing of systems and components.
• Job Duty 2 -
  Develop engineering project schedules, plans, and specifications for systems and components.
• Job Duty 3 -
  Conduct analyses of system performance; prescribe corrective action where required.
• Job Duty 4 -
  Troubleshoot systems; may involve calibration and repair work.
• Job Duty 5 -
  Prepare drawings, schematic diagrams and other documentation associated with components and systems.
• Job Duty 6 -
  Provide input to and administer project engineering budgets.
• Job Duty 7 -
  Interact with vendors regarding procurement and delivery issues.
• Job Duty 8 -
  Participate in project reviews for conformance to quality standards and compliance with applicable codes and regulations.
• Job Duty 9 -
  Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering field, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications
Valid Driver's license This is a temporary position, limited to 1300 hours or 12 consecutive months, and subject to ACA and GT guidelines for temporary employment.

Required Experience
Up to two years of job related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Professional Engineer (PE)

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS
This job requires application of engineering principles, processes and practices; application of regulations, codes and safety practices; utilization of basic and advanced computer applications including those specific to areas of responsibility; communication skills.