Research Assistant Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Candidates must hold an earned research doctorate in physics, engineering, mathematics, applied physics, or other related disciplines.
• Evidence for the ability to obtain external research funding.
• Ability to travel (~10% of the time) to support field work and program reviews.
• Candidates must be a US citizen.

Nice To Haves

• Experience conducting acoustic field work at sea and analyzing data in the field.
• A demonstrated record of collaboration amongst academic, industry, and government partners.
• Active involvement in professional organizations.
• Skill in working with culturally diverse constituencies in the academic environment.
• Experience as a research mentor to undergraduate and graduate students in research and scholarship.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and validate models for acoustic propagation in complex ocean environments over a range of spatial scales and frequencies.
• Develop computationally efficient approaches for propagation modeling that allow their execution on embedded systems in undersea platforms.
• Investigate uncertainty in acoustic propagation and approaches to quantify it using in-situ acoustic observations.
• Develop strategies for making decisions based on acoustic propagation models in collaboration with researchers from other disciplines.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of researchers in academia and industry to advance specific project goals; Support the planning and execution of at-sea experiments, data collection, and data analysis; Communicate research results to sponsors and the scientific community through briefings, working groups, meetings, and publications.

Benefits

• USNH Employee Benefits