Web Media Developer

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued. We are seeking an experienced Web Media Developer to work on this Research, Technology Development and Innovation (RTDI) project, DecaMap (formerly CoPilot-AI). This project won the overall prize in the recent Science Foundation Ireland-Defence Organisation Innovation Challenge competition and focuses on providing a comprehensive digital Common Operational Picture to support Responders in managing Emergency Events such as Wildfires.

DecaMap is a R&D project focused on developing next generation Earth Observation and AI technologies to support real-time response to Emergency Events such as Wildfires. Platforms include Satellite, Aircraft, Drones, Mobile Devices using Optical, LiDAR, Navigation sensors. Highly automated Machine Learning and Geo-AI workflows underpin an intuitive Common Operational Picture to transform real-time data streams into a suite of useful information services delivered directly to Emergency Response HQ or responders out in the field.

A suitably qualified candidate with an excellent primary degree and ideally postgraduate degree with significant Web Media development expertise is required to support the integration of Web based video and imagery streams within the DecaMap work-programme and supporting technical leadership.

This specific role within the team will apply the candidate’s knowledge of enterprise web applications and the development and integration of geospatial applications, coupled with the ability to integrate, process and analyse video and other sensor data streams. The geospatial applications will utilise a series of libraries and applications – open source and proprietary – to manage, process, and visualise data including geocoded panoramas and in-frame positioning i.e. positioning targets and points of interest in video-frames.  These applications will also leverage Esri and open source technologies to provide the overall web and geospatial application framework including spatial geodatabases, integrated map viewers, and mobile applications – accessible through a secure, robust Cloud-based web platform environment.

The candidate will work closely with the Principal Investigators & Management Team (T McCarthy, J McDonald & G O’Riain) and will be responsible for ensuring their aspects of the research work plan for this project, are adhered to in terms of outputs, deliverables and milestones. A high level of initiative and personal drive is required as this will be an environment where you will be joining the project at ground level, helping to lead the design and shape of technical solutions as well as implementing them. The candidate must have the ability to work independently under minimal direction and on their own initiative. Occasionally the work will involve travel in the field, flight testing and meeting with project partners, attending relevant conferences as well as collating/preparing material for research funding calls.

Salary

Senior Research Fellow (2023)*:                     €74,589 p.a. pro-rata (Point 1 )

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.