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• U. Edinburgh Computer Vision Postdoc
• Northwestern Mechatronics Lecturer
• SeeByte Software Engineer

SeeByte seeks strong software engineers for solutions based on SeeTrack, the mission-planning, monitoring, sensor-fusion and visualisation platform of choice for underwater remote systems. The post will be based at the SeeByte headquarters in Edinburgh.

SeeByte creates the world’s most advanced smart software for the latest generation of unmanned underwater vehicles, including autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) and remotely operated vehicles (ROV) for the military and offshore sectors. SeeByte also work in the Renewable Energy market providing autonomous diagnostic tools. Beyond visualisation and automation, SeeByte systems extract information to create awareness, which can be used to reason intuitively and autonomously. These technology and deployment capabilities make SeeByte-enabled remote machines more productive, safe and reliable; operational performance is significantly enhanced at a reduced cost.

SeeByte are looking to fill multiple engineer posts, based in Edinburgh to be filled immediately in Software Engineering. The successful candidate will be required to:

• Work as a member of a team of developers in the design, development and testing of software.
• Follow industry best practices, standards and complying with specifications provided.
• Follow processes and procedures as communicated by the Development Manager and/or Project Manager.

Qualifications:

• Good degree (1st /2.1 Hons) Electrical/Computer Science/Software Engineering or similar numerate discipline with strong software engineering emphasis. A higher degree or suitable experience in a relevant subject area for SeeByte would also be an advantage.
• Practical experience in programming on Linux and Windows systems.
• Demonstrable experience in: C/C++ and Java, Object Oriented Design, Experience in at least one of the following areas: Signal and Image Processing / Computer Vision, Navigation Systems, Robotics / Autonomous Systems / Control Systems.

Desirable Skills: Ideally the candidate would have knowledge and experience in some the following skills:

• Formal Testing
• Design Patterns and UML

General Skills:

• Excellent organisational skills.
• Good inter-personal/communications skills.
• Confident working in a small company environment.
• Comfortable working with external clients.
• Dependable when working under tight deadlines.
• Willingness to travel abroad and take part in tests and trials

To Apply: Send an e-mail to hr@seebyte.com with an up to date CV, including current salary details and notice period.

Because of the nature of the work associated with this post, it is subject to special nationality rules and is open only to British, US or European Citizens. All selected candidates will be subject to background checking.

Lead Sr Staff Engineer - Bioinspired Robotics

The mission of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University is to transform human healthcare and the environment by emulating the way nature builds. Developed as an alliance between Harvard and other premier academic and clinical partner institutions, Institute faculty and staff collaborate in high-risk, fundamental research and science-driven technology development. A major focus of the Institute is to translate the technologies developed by its faculty and staff into commercial products and therapies through collaborations with clinical investigators and establishment of corporate alliances.

We seek a talented, enthusiastic and experienced individual to work as a Lead Senior Staff Engineer in the area of bioinspired robotics. This person will report to the Operations Director and will assist and enable Wyss Institute faculty and researchers in their research and development efforts in robotics, while leading efforts within the Institute’s Bionspired Robotics Platform. Topics in bioinspired robotics include, but are not limited to, autonomous robots, collective operation, microrobots, and soft robots. He/she will initiate, direct, and perform independent research and work with Institute faculty in the creation and execution of research programs and projects in bioinspired robotics. The successful candidate will develop technology plans for Wyss robotics research programs, coordinate resources, and champion technology translation.

The Lead Senior Staff Engineer will take a leadership role in developing industrial relationships and outreach to generate feedback that will guide the research and development efforts at the Institute. The successful candidate will participate meaningfully in the academic community, helping to define and create the technology culture at Wyss and serving as a mentor for other senior and junior staff, fellows, postdocs, and students. He/she will participate in the development of strategic plans for Wyss research programs; and in writing research proposals, patent applications, presentations and publications. He/ she will provide guidance and management for prototype development in the bioinspired robotics area and guide applied research primarily focused on achieving commercial proof-of-concept and demonstration of commercial viability.

PhD in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with specific focus on a high risk area of robotics is required. Minimum 7 years of industrial experience in robotics is absolutely necessary. Strong foundation micro and macro fabrication, sensors and actuators, controls (theoretical and applied), materials, mechanics, fluids is required.

To Apply: See website.

Ogmento seeks a Computer Vision Engineer with industry experience and strong academic background in pose estimation. The CV engineer will be responsible for the tracking module of Ogmento’s core platform. This module is to be used in most of our games and as such the Computer Vision Engineer will work closely with most of the other Engineers. The tracking module should be planned as portable as possible and optimized for mobile devices.

The ideal candidate would have the following qualifications:

• Ph.D./M.Sc. in Computer Science with practical thesis related to pose estimatio
• 4+ years core development experience in C++ at the industry
• Experience in pose estimation: SLAM based and/or NFT methods

To Apply: Send your resume (PDF) to jobs@ogmento.com with the subject titles: “Computer Vision Engineer” and your name.

Boston Dynamics (Waltham, MA) seeks a talented, creative, and highly motivated control systems engineer. We are looking for someone who can work as a key member of our multi-disciplinary team to design, build, simulate and test advanced robot control systems. Desired skills and experience include:

• MS or PhD in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, aeronautical engineering or related discipline plus 3 or more years of relevant experience.
• Experience implementing high-bandwidth feedback control systems for multi-DOF systems both in simulation and on physical hardware in C and/or C++.
• Proven record of technical excellence, creativity, hands-on experience, and the ability to work well with others.
• Strong interpersonal, speaking and writing skills

To Apply: Please send your resume to jobs@BostonDynamics.com.

Boston Dynamics (Waltham, MA) seeks a talented, creative, and highly motivated mechanical engineer. We are looking for someone who can design high-performance, high strength-to-weight ratio, mechanisms that incorporate complex linkages, actuators and sensors. You will work as part of a mechanical design team to design, build, field-test and deliver advanced dynamic robots. Desired skills and experience include:

• BSME or MSME plus 2-5 years of relevant experience.
• Relevant industrial experience in the fields of robot, aircraft and aerospace, and/or automotive design.
• Advanced experience with SolidWorks, or and equivalent CAD system.
• Experience with hydraulic and/or electro-mechanical actuators and sensors.

To Apply: Please send your resume to jobs@BostonDynamics.com.

Meka Robotics (San Francisco, CA) is looking for a robot engineer to contribute to our humanoid robot projects. This position is ideal for someone who has a broad robotics background and a depth of experience at the hardware/software interface. We're looking for a candidate who has:

• Extensive experience with tuning, testing, and characterization of robot sensors and actuators
• Hands on experience troubleshooting digital and power electronics.
• Experience writing clean and modular C++ and Python code at the DSP and PC level.
• Familiarity with Linux command line tools, GCC, RTAI, re-compiling a kernel, etc

To Apply: Please submit your resume and any supporting material such as design portfolios to jobs@mekabot.com.

Hstar Technologies, Inc. has immediate openings for Robotics Control Engineers at its headquarters in Cambridge, MA, and at its research facility in San Francisco, CA.

Required qualifications:

• MS/PhD in Robotics Engineering
• Experience in dexterous manipulator programming, kinematic and dynamic control of high degree-of-freedom manipulation systems, robotic grasping.
• Familiar with force feedback control, trajectory tracking, impedance control, robotic actuation, human-robot interaction.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Matlab
• Experience in robotic system design, sensing, and system integration of robotic manipulators.
• Knowledge of robotic manipulation system design, development and control.

To Apply: Please contact Jeff Scott in Operations.

2d3 is seeking two computer vision scientists to join its expanding research team. Candidates with experience in any of the following areas would be considered:

• Image-based tracking (stabilization, SFM, SLAM, etc.)
• Object detection, recognition, & classification (with/without tracking, single/multi-view)
• Automatic mosaicing (using a range of matching methods)
• Photometric optimisation & matching
• Camera calibration & image rectification
• Novel view synthesis
• Super-resolution & compression artefact reduction
• Hyperspectral image fusion
• Terrain & townscape 3D modelling

Prototyping and development takes place in Matlab, and C++. Excellent C++ and software engineering skills are important.

2d3 Ltd researches, develops, and produces products for the capture, management, geolocation, enhancement, exploitation, and distribution of aerial imagery. With an original background in film and visual effects, 2d3 has a broad portfolio of technologies applicable to sensing, security and surveillance incorporating airborne ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) from both manned and unmanned (UAV) platforms. 2d3 has offices in Oxford, UK and Irvine, CA, USA. The role is based in Oxford.

To Apply: See website or contact Ms Lesley Butcher for an application form.

We have an opening for a hands on research position at Carnegie Mellon's National Robotics Engineering Center, Robotics Institute.

We are looking for a talented, hands on, researcher to lead the development of an autonomy system for an off road vehicle. The researcher will be expected to lead the design and implementation of a software system in C++ to control an autonomous robot moving in urban/off-road terrain. As the software is a deliverable for this project, strong software development and engineering skills will be essential in addition to hands on experience in developing working autonomy systems.

This work is part of a larger effort to develop mobile robot autonomy systems and simulation environments for rapid development of those systems.

To Apply: Please send all resumes and references to: Brett Browning.

Heartland Robotics in Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is looking for both Principal and Senior software people to help us build the intelligence of a new class of industrial robot.

We are looking for people who have experience in Behavior-Based Control for robots, experience in Lisp, C++, and Linux.

To Apply: jobs@heartlandrobotics.com

Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science is looking for a dynamic educator and practitioner in electromechanical design to further develop Northwestern's broad offerings in mechatronics. The ideal applicant will have an MS or PhD in electrical, mechanical, or computer engineering, or a related field; experience in, and enthusiasm for, working with undergraduates on design projects; and several years of experience in electromechanical design. Specifically, the applicant should be experienced in

• embedded computing with microcontrollers
• analog and digital circuit design, including PCB layout
• selection of sensors, actuators, and mechanical components
• CAD, mechanical design, and fabrication
• dynamics and system modeling
• real-time control

Job responsibilities include

• managing the Northwestern Mechatronics Design Lab, including coordinating use among several departments
• advising students on design projects for courses and independent projects, for both internal and external clients
• coordinating the annual robot Design Competition
• curriculum development and support of existing courses
• curriculum development and teaching for new courses and professional short courses
• overseeing the mechatronics wiki
• consulting with faculty on research projects

This will be a non-tenure track appointment for a three year term, renewable based on excellent performance and availability of funds. Compensation will be determined based on experience and qualifications.

To Apply: Send a single pdf file to Amy Masters. This file should contain a cover letter, CV, contact information for at least three references, and a portfolio of any significant electromechanical design projects you have undertaken. If cited projects were group projects, please indicate portions for which you were responsible. This portfolio may consist of one or more links to websites with more information about the design, or figures and/or text descriptions embedded in the pdf file. Apart from links to websites, the application must be fully self-contained in the single pdf file.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851. Northwestern has three campuses: the main campus in Evanston, the first suburb north of Chicago; a campus in downtown Chicago; and a campus in Doha, Qatar. The McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science is located on the main campus in Evanston.

Faculty Position in Intelligent Autonomous Systems Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

The Department of Computer Science at Technische Universitaet Darmstadt seeks applications from outstanding individuals for a faculty position (full professorship/W3, tenure) in the field of intelligent autonomous systems and invites candidates having a demonstrated excellent research record and expertise.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Learning methodologies in the areas of perception, motor skills and cognition,
• Integrated methods for navigation, exploration and perception,
• Bio-inspired robots and cognitive systems,
• Cooperating robots and networked autonomous systems,
• Human-robot interaction,
• Software and hardware architectures.

Candidates must have the ability to develop a leading research program with a focus on technology development and translation into concrete applications of autonomous robots and cognitive technical systems (e.g. service and assistance robots, humanoid robots, search and rescue robots).

Active contributions to the Research Training Group 1362 on cooperative, adaptive and responsive monitoring in mixed mode environments, the proposed focal research area environmental monitoring by cooperative autonomous systems and the focal research area computational engineering are expected as well as openness to cooperation with further research areas of the Department of Computer Science.

An enthusiasm for teaching is essential, and responsibilities will include both core undergraduate as well as graduate-level courses related to the Bachelor and Master programs in Computer Science, the new Master Program in Autonomous Systems as well as the Bachelor and Master programs in Computational Engineering. Teaching languages are German and English.

The position is tenured with a remuneration package commensurate with experience and qualification, following the German “W-Besoldung”.

Technische Universität Darmstadt intends to increase the number of female faculty members and encourages female candidates to apply.

In case of equal qualifications severely disabled applicants will be given preference.

To Apply: Email (and Ref. No. 108) the usual documents as letter of application, curriculum vitae, research and teaching plan, research and teaching records. The deadline for application is May 15, 2010.

The Cognitive Robotics team at ENSTA ParisTech in Paris is offering a permanent lecturer position in mechatronics and robotics. The candidates should speak French and have experience in several of the following areas: mechatronics design, control of mechatronics system, learning and planning for manipulation, mobile manipulation or humanoid robotics.

To Apply: Review detailed job description and application. Deadline: March 31, 2010.

Columbia University invites applications for a Senior Lecturer position. The position is sought in the fields of Mechatronics and Design. The expected start date is Fall 2009. Applicants must hold a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering or a related field and have excellent oral and written communication skills. Successful candidates must have demonstrated excellence in teaching. Courses to be taught include, but not limited to Mechatronics, Engineering Design, and Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. For further information about this position, please contact Sandra Morris.

To Apply: Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Create An Applicant Profile available here. Applicants must submit a curriculum vitae, cover letter, statement of teaching philosophy, and a list of three references with current telephone numbers and email addresses.

Applications are invited for one post-doctoral researcher to work in the School of Informatics on an EC funded project entitled “Fish4Knowledge: Supporting humans in knowledge gathering and question answering w.r.t. marine and environmental monitoring through analysis of multiple video streams”.

The consortium's project goal is to investigate: information abstraction and storage methods for reducing the massive amount of video data (from 10E+15 pixels to 10E+12 units of information), machine and human vocabularies for describing fish, recognising fish and retrieving examples from a massive image database, flexible process architectures to process the data and scientific queries and effective specialised user query interfaces. A combination of computer vision, database storage, workflow and human computer interaction methods will be used to achieve this.

To Apply:

See here for more details.

Applicants must have completed a PhD in an appropriate area, such as computer vision or image processing. The post requires good competence in the MATLAB and C/C++ programming languages. As the project is about image and video data analysis, we will be looking for applicants with experience in these areas. The post-doctoral position is on the Edinburgh UE07 scale (29853 - 35646 pounds/year). Placement for the post is according to experience and qualifications. The post is available from from October 1, 2010 until September 30, 2013.

Informal inquiries may be made to Bob Fisher. Send applications to: Irene Madison. Please quote reference number 3013275. Closing date for applications is September 17, 2010.

Center for Biorobotics, Tallinn University of Technology has a postdoc position opening in biomechanics with a specialization to soft body modelling and deformation registration, numerical methods for soft tissue modelling, mechanics of continuous environments, modelling and analysis of fluids and capillary flows. The applicant would participate in European Union financed FP7 Framework projects SAFROS and I-SUR dedicated to surgical automation.

Requirements: solid background in physics, biomechanics and numerical methods, finate element analysis, thorough understanding of experimental methodology, good communication skills and teamworking experience.

Research environment: TUT Center for Biorobotics is a recently established rapidly growing multidisciplinary internationally well connected research center involved in several international research projects. It is well equipped for theoretical and experimental work in mechanics, control, fluid dynamics, CFD and parallel computing. We value free academic spirit, novel ideas on the borderline of science and technology, teamwork and cooperation over various disciplines. Estonia is an EU member state with a rapid growth, modern infrastructure and thin bureaucracy.

To Apply: Please send your CV, publications list and references to Prof. Maarja Kruusmaa.

The Control Engineering Group at the University of Twente invites applications for a post doctoral position in the field of unmanned aerial vehicle. The ideal candidate should have theoretical and practical experience in avionics and mechanical design. More details of the project can be found here.

The position is limited to a period of 18 months, with subsequent project dependent extension possibility. This salary will be in scale 10 or 11 (Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities) and will depend on the relevant experience in this field of expertise.

To Apply: Interested candidates (before or after PhD defence) should contact Dr. Raffaella Carloni. Please send your CV, publications list and recommendation letter.

The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.) invites applications for a post doctoral position in the field of biped walking control. The ideal candidate should have theoretical and practical experience in robot walking using a full scale humanoid or a biped walking machine. The candidate will have the opportunity to work with a torque controlled legged robot which is currently under construction at DLR.

The position is limited to a period of three years, with subsequent project dependent extension possibility. The salary is fixed and follows the rules of the “TVöD” (German governmental salary system).

To Apply: Interested candidates (before or after PhD defence) should contact Christian Ott, Dr.-Ing. Please send your CV, along with representative publications to Dr. Ott or Dr. Alin Albu-Schaeffer.

PhD and MSc positions in the Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory at The University of Western Australia.

Our group comprises a multi-disciplinary research team with projects in the areas of surgical simulation, medical robotics, medical image registration and biomechanics. For more information contact Prof. Karol Miller.

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