Autonomy Research Engineer

University of Dayton, Ohio • Dayton, OH

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About The Position

UDRI is looking for an Autonomy Research Engineer to join the SPIRE group. You will contribute to a growing team responsible for cutting-edge technology and enhancing AI, autonomy and data exploitation capabilities and effectiveness. An ideal candidate for this role will be excited at the prospect of technical research, development and implementation of state of the art AI/ML techniques. The candidate will also enjoy a focus on the execution of these capabilities in challenging, operationally relevant environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 8 years related work experience
• Active US SECRET (or higher) clearance
• Successful professional experience programming in Python or other similar language
• Understanding and professional experience with current Air Force R&D efforts in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy and Machine Learning with a focus on aerial combat
• Professional experience with Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms and the CoRL software environment
• Professional experience with autonomous control systems
• Professional experience with source code version control systems such as Git
• Due to the requirements of our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be a U.S. citizen

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
• Enthusiastic, motived, self-starting individual with a willingness to learn new skills. Examples of this include evaluating new AI/ML and autonomy capabilities; finding and fostering technical connections between projects and technologies
• Demonstrated, effective leadership and team management experience
• Demonstrated, effective ability to teach and mentor junior engineers
• Demonstrated, effective interpersonal skills

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level