Visiting Scholar

at  OTTO Motors by Rockwell Automation

Position: Visiting Scholar
Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Job Type: 1-3 Year Contract. Sabbaticals welcome.
Experience: 5+ Years of Relevant Experience
Education: Ph.D in Computer Science, Engineer, or Equivalent

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS:

• Ph.D in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Physics, Mathematics, or equivalent
• Substantial experience independently carrying out R&D as a postdoc, professor, or equivalent, including within a larger organization such as a corporate lab or academic institute
• Broad familiarity with navigation, planning, perception, mapping, deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and similar topics as applicable to autonomous robots
• Broad familiarity with key hardware technologies and modalities covering sensing, computation, communication, and actuation
• Specific familiarity with one or more of the above fields, with multiple papers published in notable journals or conferences
• Familiarity with software development and testing methodologies and tools
• Experience presenting and representing your work or organization in public
• Hands-on experience with developing and deploying software for physical robots
• Strong experience with C++, Python, and ideally more languages (Lua, Rust, etc)
• Strong experience with key libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Ceres, or OMPL
• Reasonable experience with ROS1, ROS 2, Gazebo, CUDA, and ideally more frameworks
• Highly proficient with experimental analysis and benchmarking
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• Conducting direct R&D in your area of interest
• Technical collaboration with and mentorship of R&D contributors
• Working as ‘internal PI’ with academic institutions, including technology transfer, dataset development and sharing, and joint publications
• Ensuring that OTTO Motors is well represented as a technology leader in your area of interest, including patents, publications, open-source contributions, and public presentations
• Understanding and communicating of technologies and developments in your area of interest which may be applicable to autonomous mobile robotics, including past work and future trends