Overview
This position within the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) focuses on scientific research and technology development in robotics and autonomous systems, with a preference for underwater robotics, to address defence and security needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the ANMW programme of work in the investigation and development of innovative scientific research ideas in naval mine warfare, seabed warfare and drone warfare.
- Develop and implement advanced and novel algorithms and models for autonomous systems.
- Develop rigorous mathematical understanding/interpretation of developed algorithms and assess their performance.
- Collaborate with researchers and domain experts to identify research questions, potential solutions and design experiments.
- Conduct and document theoretical and/or experimental investigations as part of a team working on maritime research problems.
- Stay up to date with the latest advancements in autonomy, robotics and related fields.
- Participate in interdisciplinary research teams and contribute to research proposals and publications.
- Present research findings at conferences, workshops, and internal meetings.
- Support the organization and execution of NATO workshops and conferences; the establishment of Multi-National Projects; the development of proposals for external funding.
Required Experience
- Strong experience in one of the following topics: autonomous navigation, mapping, perception, autonomous behaviors and/or AI-driven autonomy.
- Strong background in robotics and autonomous systems.
- Strong background in AI applied to autonomy.
- Proven track record of high quality scientific research in robotics with a significant publication record.
- Experience with robotics’ software middleware (e.g. ROS or ROS2).
- Strong scientific programming experience using standard software and operating systems such as Linux, MATLAB, Python.
- Experience relative to architectures and algorithms for collaborative robotics.
- Experience participating in scientific project work within a multi-disciplinary environment.
- Experience participating in the submission and execution of scientific projects, delivering the expected and required outputs to the satisfaction of the customer.
- MSc degree and at least 5 years post-MSc related experience as Scientist or Engineer with a specific focus on physics, acoustics or signal processing; OR PhD degree and at least 2 years post-PhD related experience as Scientist or Engineer with a specific focus and training on ocean acoustics.
Qualifications
- A degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or related field.
- MSc degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in scientific, engineering, or related field.
- PhD degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in physics, engineering, applied mathematics or related field.
