Postdoctoral Fellow – Real-Time Graphics, Simulation, & Interactive Digital Twins Ubicquia Innovation Center for Intelligent Infrastructure (UICII)

Florida Atlantic University•Boca Raton, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Florida Atlantic University seeks a highly computational Postdoctoral Fellow to design and implement real-time, photorealistic digital twin environments within the Ubicquia Innovation Center for Intelligent Infrastructure (UICII). This Postdoctoral Fellow position is a 12-month appointment and has the potential for renewal contingent upon performance and funding. UICII advances production-scale intelligent infrastructure systems deployed across operational campus- and city-scale environments in partnership with municipal and industry collaborators. These deployments generate live data streams and provide a unique foundation for infrastructure-backed digital twins. This position emphasizes real-time rendering, engine-level architecture, and scalable interactive systems for urban-scale environments.

Requirements

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Visual Computing, Interactive Media, or related field
Strong C++ and/or C# programming expertise
Demonstrated experience building complex environments in Unreal or Unity
Deep understanding of real-time rendering architectures and performance optimization
Experience designing scalable interactive systems
Strong computational background

Nice To Haves

Experience with GPU programming, shaders, or advanced rendering techniques
Experience integrating external APIs or live data streams
Background in distributed systems or edge-to-cloud architectures
Experience deploying AI models within interactive engines

Responsibilities

Architect and implement large-scale, real-time digital twin environments
Design rendering pipelines for photorealistic urban scenes at campus and district scale
Develop interactive systems using Unreal Engine or Unity (final platform selection is open)
Integrate live infrastructure telemetry into real-time visualization environments
Optimize scene graphs, memory management, asset streaming, and runtime performance
Contribute to research proposals and peer-reviewed publications
Generative scene synthesis and procedural world-building
AI-assisted asset creation and semantic scene enrichment
Synthetic data generation for perception and simulation
Embedding real-time inference within rendering pipelines