PhD Graduate - Post Doctoral in Robotics Researcher

Robotics Post-Doctoral Researcher

Are you passionate about pursuing groundbreaking research to solve today's greatest challenges in robotics?

Do you enjoy working on meaningful interdisciplinary problems?

Do you thrive in a collaborative and creative environment?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL.

If you are graduating with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics with a focus on Robotics, we'd love to have you join our team! The Robotics Group in the Research and Exploratory Development Department is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that is inventing the future across the broad spectrum of robotics, with applications that strengthen national defense, improve healthcare, advance space exploration, and address critical challenges facing the nation.

We are seeking a highly skilled, highly motivated robotics post-doctoral researchers to join us in taking intelligent robotic systems from concept to reality. We are a multidisciplinary team focused on groundbreaking impacts in the areas of robotics control, agentic AI, human-robot and robot-robot teaming, assured autonomy, and novel robot design. Our team is committed to excellence in research that has real-world impact.

We strive to foster an environment that aims to solve the hardest problems in robotics.

As a member of our team, you will work on a mix of your own proposed novel research and existing research programs. Current research areas include robot adaptive perception and reasoning, trajectory planning and advanced control, enhanced mobility, novel robotic systems, human-machine teaming, multi-agent coordination, and safe and assured autonomy behaviors. You will have the opportunity to publish your work and present the results of your efforts to the scientific community, external collaborators, and/or government sponsors.

Qualifications

You meet our minimum qualifications for the job if you...

• Have a Ph.D. in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Are able to obtain a DoD Secret-level security clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.
• Are a U.S. citizen.

You'll go above and beyond our minimum requirements if you...

• Have experience with technical writing and have previously published your work in the scientific literature.
• Have experience formulating original research for real-world application.
• Have experience developing software that integrates with hardware such as robotic platforms and sensors.
• Have experience designing, fabricating, and integrating robotics hardware.
• Have demonstrated proficiency in using ROS
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Minimum Rate $85,300 Annually Maximum Rate $155,500 Annually