Technologist I - Teamed Autonomy

Updated: about 1 year ago
Location: College Station, TEXAS
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: The position may have been removed or expired!

Job Title

Technologist I - Teamed Autonomy

Agency

Texas A&M Engineering

Department

Bush Combat Development Complex

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

College Station, Texas

Job Type

Staff

Job Description

The George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex (BCDC) and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) invites applications for a full-time Technologist in the focus area of multi-agent teamed autonomy for air and ground vehicles. The successful applicant will work with subject matter experts, research engineers, and students in support of the applied research in teamed autonomy. Under general supervision, the Technologist I uses principles and theories of engineering, math and science to solve technical problems within mechanical, electrical, and other system-level elements of the teamed autonomy research. Project assignments require initiative and independent judgment.

 

Researchers at BCDC are investigating air-ground cooperative autonomy to extend the sensing capabilities and leverage heterogeneous fleet resources. The goal is to help facilitate effective intelligent vehicle interactions with service members to foster the trust essential to forming efficient teams. Successful, intelligent vehicles will increase unit capabilities, situational awareness, mobility, and speed of action. The research team regularly demonstrates the developing technologies that enable coordinated movement, via shared situational awareness with our heterogeneous multi-vehicle fleet in the diverse off-road terrain at the RELLIS campus.  

 

The BCDC - located on the 2,000-acre RELLIS Campus in Bryan, TX - is an ecosystem for agile technology development and service-member-inspired research. The BCDC is the result of a partnership between the U.S. Army Futures Command and The Texas A&M University System, TEES and the State of Texas. The $200 million complex is designed to bring together researchers from U.S. universities, the military and the private sector for collaboration, demonstrations, and high-tech testing of initiatives to help accelerate military innovation for our nation’s defense. 

Responsibilities:

  • Provides technical expertise and guidance in the identification, analysis and resolution of problems in area of expertise.
  • Utilizes established engineering principles in the design and evaluation of engineering components
  • Ensures accomplishment of business goals and objectives through effective planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling and monitoring of work activities.
  • Create and interpret technical drawings and schematics.
  • Maintain logistics of project inventory, organization, and ordering using 5S method
  • Prepares thorough and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations and sketches with some guidance.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Required Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in applicable field or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Experience:

  • No prior experience required.

Preferred Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in (Mechanical, Electrical, Computer) Engineering or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Preferred Experience:

  • Familiarity with ground and/or aerial vehicle robotics
  • Familiarity with hardware integration to compose complex systems-of-systems (SoS)  
  • Experience working in Linux operating systems environments 
  • Familiar with basic computer networking concepts 
  • Familiarity of autonomous vehicle subsystems (perception, localization, navigation, etc)
  • Experience in software development projects for applied research  

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Basic knowledge of computer-aided drafting techniques, and design.
  • Basic knowledge of mathematical formulas and computations and data gathering methods.
  • Ability to regularly track project logistics via custom spreadsheet and tools
  • Basic knowledge of engineering work planning and control methods.
  • Ability to effectively communicate engineering solutions both verbally and in writing to management, customers, and peers.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

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