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11799 - Research Associate in Interactive Artificial Intelligence

Job details
Posting date: 13 December 2024
Salary: £40,247.00 to £47,874.00 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 10 January 2025
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Remote working: On-site only
Company: University of Edinburgh
Job type: Contract
Job reference: 11799

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Summary

UE07: £40,247.00 - £47,874.00 Per Annum.

CSE / School of Informatics.

Fixed Term Contract - 2 Years.

Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.

The School of Informatics is seeking a Research Associate in Interactive Artificial Intelligence. This post will be part of the Centre for AI for Assistive Autonomy, a mission-driven research centre established using a UKRI Turing AI World Leading Researcher Fellowship awarded to Prof Subramanian Ramamoorthy.

The Opportunity:

The post-holder will be part of a foundations team within the Centre, whose focus will be on fundamental investigations into generative modelling of the full stack of human behaviour, from sensorimotor control to higher level cognitive decision making, to enable the development of person-centred and teachable autonomous systems within domains including assistive technologies for activities of daily living, task level autonomy in surgical robotics and autonomous vehicles.

Your skills and attributes for success: (insert up to 5 top criteria)

A PhD (or near completion) in AI, with a focus on machine learning methods applicable to robotics and autonomous systems
An excellent track record of publications in top tier conferences and/or journals in AI, (e.g. IJCAI, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR), robotics (e.g. R:SS, CoRL, ICRA) or computer vision (e.g. CVPR, ICCV)
Excellent proven experience of developing machine learning systems using state of the art frameworks and tools for handling large datasets
Ability to work effectively as part of a team, to meet deadlines, and to report on project progress
Ability to communicate complex information clearly, orally and in writing.

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