Job at NASA Ames

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ROBOTICS RESEARCHER POSITION

The Intelligent Robotics Group at the NASA Ames Research Center has an immediate opening for a full-time researcher. Applicants should hold a M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Robotics and have experience in software architectures (especially robot controllers and interaction infrastructure). A strong background in UNIX-based development, including C++, Java, and software engineering (UML, object-oriented design, etc.) is required. In addition, knowledge in one, or more, of the following areas is greatly preferred:

- agent architectures and delegated computing
- computer vision (visual servoing, autonomous classification, and SLAM)
- human-robot interaction (dialogue, user modeling, and user interfaces)
- marine / underwater robotics
- mobile manipulation (especially non-prehensile)
- perceptual user interfaces (gaze following, visual gesturing, etc.)
- real-time and distributed computing

If you are interested in applying for this position, please send the following via email:

- a letter describing your background and motivation
- a detailed CV (preferably in text or PDF format)
- contact details of at least two references

to Dr. Terry Fong .

The NASA Ames Research Center is located at Moffett Field, California in the heart of Silicon Valley. NASA Ames is a leader in information technology research, with a focus on intelligent systems, supercomputing, and networking. More than 3,500 personnel are employed at Ames. In addition, approximately 300 graduate students, cooperative education students, post-doctoral fellows, and university faculty work at the Center.

Since 1998, the Intelligent Robotics Group has been building robots to help humans explore and understand extreme environments and uncharted worlds. IRG conducts cross-cutting research in a wide range of areas including: 3D user interfaces, outdoor computer vision, human-robot interaction, navigation, mobile manipulation, robot software architectures and field mobile robots. This research directly supports applications in education, planetary exploration, marine robotics, and urban search and rescue.