Postdoctoral Researcher

Job Summary

The Commonwealth of Virginia's Assured Vehicle Autonomy (AVA) Lab at the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech is seeking a highly skilled postdoctoral researcher to join our interdisciplinary team. As a postdoctoral researcher, you will design, implement, and test new modeling, estimation, and detection methods for automated navigation systems using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), inertial sensors, LiDARs, vision, and radars.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement novel algorithms for navigation and sensor fusion
• Conduct research in navigation applications for robotic or automated transportation operations
• Collaborate with team members from multiple universities to address problems for government agencies and industry partners
• Evolve in an interdisciplinary team to address complex problems in navigation and sensor systems

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related discipline
• Expertise in navigation using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), inertial navigation systems (INS), LiDAR, or other navigation sensors
• Expertise with Kalman filtering (KF), extended KF, or other sequential model-based estimators
• Strong experience with MATLAB
• Ability to work effectively in a team and manage students
• Strong communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in carrier phase differential GNSS and LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
• Experience with testing multi-sensor integration schemes for real-time navigation using model-based recursive estimators
• Experience with fusion of data from INS/GNSS/LiDAR and possibly radar, familiarity with Opti-Track motion capture system
• Experience with collecting and analyzing radio-frequency (RF) front-end wideband data
• Experience with navigation accuracy, integrity, continuity, and availability performance metrics and requirements in multiple modes of transportation
• Experience with the receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) or fault detection methods
• Expertise with programming languages such as C/C++/Python or similar under Linux and ROS environments
• Experience with high-performance computing

About the Commonwealth of Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is a leader in innovation and research, with a strong focus on advancing the field of navigation and sensor systems. As a postdoctoral researcher, you will have the opportunity to work with a talented team of researchers and engineers to develop cutting-edge solutions for the transportation industry.