Postdoctoral Associate—Florida Digital Twin; FLDT

Overview

The Jax Lab program of the School of Architecture (SoA) at the University of Florida (UF) is hiring two Postdoctoral Associates as part of a coordinated team effort, each with a distinct focus but both contributing to the advancement of the FLDT mission.

The Florida Digital Twin (FLDT) is a flagship research initiative funded by the UF Office of Research that leverages high-performance computing, AI, and geospatial modeling to build AI-powered replicas of the built and natural environment. Jax Lab translates this statewide initiative into community-centered applications focused on Jacksonville and beyond.

Postdoctoral Associate – Software Engineering & Technical Development focuses on the technical development of FLDT and will help develop, build, and maintain a suite of geospatial tools and data infrastructure that support large-scale 3D modeling, spatial data integration, and public-facing decision-support applications. The position will teach AI, coding, or related courses.

Postdoctoral Associate – Community Engagement & Teaching focuses on community and urban design, hazard resilience, and/or stakeholder engagement. The postdoc will assist and/or teach related courses and work with community partners, faculty, and students to ensure FLDT reflects local priorities, values, and lived experiences—especially in Jacksonville and surrounding areas.

The position focuses on the technical development of FLDT. The postdoc will help develop, build, and maintain a suite of geospatial tools and data infrastructure that support large-scale 3D modeling, spatial data integration, and public-facing decision-support applications. The position will teach one course per year in Jax Lab.

• Design, implement, and maintain ETL pipelines, APIs, and geospatial data services using UF’s Hi Per Gator  supercomputing environment.
• Support integration of diverse datasets across partner systems (e.g., JTA, FDEP, UF Geo Plan).
• Co-develop resource description framework (RDF) and knowledge graph databases that support semantic query.
• Contribute to publications and white papers documenting system design, workflows, and findings.
• Develop technical documentation to support scalability and reproducibility.
• Assist with administrative development of the Jax Lab program as needed.
• Teach one course per year in Jax Lab.

This position focuses on community and urban design, hazard resilience, and/or stakeholder engagement. The postdoc will assist and/or teach related courses and work closely with community partners, faculty, and students to ensure that the Florida Digital Twin reflects local priorities, values, and lived experiences—especially within Jacksonville and surrounding areas.

• Lead community engagement activities including public forums, stakeholder interviews, and participatory mapping.
• Translate technical outcomes from FLDT into accessible materials and prepare high-quality content (document, image, case study) for FLDT’s landing webpage.
• Teach one course per year (studio or seminar) with themes such as urban design, hazard resilience, civic technology, or digital twins.
• Collaborate with researchers to incorporate community feedback into model development and decision workflows.
• Contribute to proposal writing and documentation that reflect community outcomes and impact.

• Collaborate with interdisciplinary faculty across the FLDT and Jax Lab programs.
• Deliver tangible outputs within their domain (e.g., a working prototype or public-facing workshop series).
• Support documentation and publication efforts.
• Help build sustainable, scalable processes that benefit UF and partner communities.

These positions are based in Jacksonville, Florida, with frequent interaction with UF’s main campus in Gainesville. Travel support, computing resources (including access to Hi Per Gator ), and collaborative workspace will be provided.

Commensurate with education and experience.

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