Scientist (AI and Autonomy) - G11

This position is within the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), NATO's scientific research facility focused on maritime domain technology development. The role involves designing and implementing advanced autonomy algorithms for uncrewed underwater, surface, and air vehicles, contributing to autonomous mine hunting and seabed warfare research.

Responsibilities

• Support the Autonomous Naval Mine Warfare (ANMW) programme of work in innovative scientific research in naval mine warfare, seabed warfare and drone warfare.
• Develop and implement advanced and novel algorithms and models for autonomous systems.
• Develop rigorous mathematical understanding and assess performance of algorithms.
• Collaborate with researchers and domain experts to identify research questions, solutions and design experiments.
• Conduct and document theoretical and/or experimental investigations as part of maritime research projects.
• Stay updated with latest advancements in autonomy, robotics and related fields and apply methodologies to research projects.
• Participate in interdisciplinary research teams and contribute to research proposals and publications.
• Present research findings at conferences, workshops and internal meetings.
• Support organization and execution of NATO workshops and conferences and development of proposals for external funding.
• May perform duties onboard Centre or chartered vessels and undertake TDY assignments within and outside NATO boundaries.
• Must hold fit for sea certificate in line with IMO and ILO standards before taking up duty.

Requirements

• Strong experience in autonomous navigation, mapping, perception, autonomous behaviors and/or AI-driven autonomy.
• Degree in Robotics, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or related field.
• Strong background in robotics and autonomous systems.
• Strong background in AI applied to autonomy.
• Proven track record of high quality scientific research in robotics with significant publication record.
• Strong scientific programming experience using Linux, MATLAB, Python.
• Experience in scientific project work within a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Experience in submission and execution of scientific projects delivering expected outputs.
• MSc degree from a nationally recognised university in scientific, engineering or related field with at least 3 years post-MSc experience as Scientist or Engineer focused on physics, acoustics or signal processing; OR PhD degree in physics, engineering, applied mathematics or related field with focus on ocean acoustics.
• Thorough knowledge of one of the two NATO languages (English or French), both written and spoken; some knowledge of the other is desirable.
• Knowledge of autonomous maritime vehicles subjects such as robotics, perception, tracking, automatic target recognition, cooperative behaviours, human-machine interfaces, navigation, signal and image processing, modelling and simulation, acoustic sensors.
• Advanced programming skills in C++ or high performance embedded language with at least two years experience.
• Recent scientific publications as first author in underwater robotics and/or autonomy.
• Experience with robotics software middleware (e.g. ROS or ROS2).
• Experience with architectures and algorithms for collaborative robotics.
• Experience in control and systems theory.
• Experience in AI applied to robotics.
• Experience working in an international organization.
• Track record in personal motivations evidenced by publicly-evidenced projects.

Skills

• Autonomous Navigation
• Mapping
• Perception
• AI-driven Autonomy
• Robotics
• Autonomous Systems
• Scientific Research
• Linux Programming
• Matlab Programming
• Python Programming
• Scientific Research Project Management
• Ocean Acoustics
• Physics
• Signal Processing
• C/C++ Programming
• Embedded Programming
• Robotics Middleware
• ROS
• ROS2
• Collaborative Robotics
• Control Theory
• Systems Theory
• AI Applied to Robotics
• Underwater Robotics
• Algorithm Design
• Human-machine interfaces
• Automatic Target Recognition
• Cooperative Behaviours
• Navigation
• Image processing
• Modelling and Simulation
• Acoustic Sensors

Languages

English