[socios-spr] Research Engineer position - CMU-Portugal project INSIDE

[Pedro U Lima]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

The Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), a unit of the Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems, located at
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), U. Lisboa, Portugal has currently available 1 (one) research engineer position. 

We are seeking highly motivated people with a MSc degree on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science
and related areas, to integrate the research team for the project
"INSIDE: Intelligent Networked Robot Systems for Symbiotic Interaction with Children with Impaired Development"
(http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/inside/).

The project is a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA), INESC-ID (Lisbon, Portugal), 
ISR/LARSyS/IST-ID (Lisbon, Portugal), and FCT / New University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal), also involving
Hospital Garcia da Orta and the companies IDMind; PLUX Biosignals; and VoiceInteraction.

The successful candidates are expected to have background and experience in one (or more) of the following areas:

* Networked robot systems;
* Decision-theoretic planning under uncertainty;
* Robot Navigation
* Human-Robot Interaction.

The selected grantee will be mainly responsible in the project for the activities concerning development and integration of software and hardware
for the networked robot system that interacts with autistic chidren in a hosoital, where the research results will be demonstrated.

The grant has a duration of 12 months, being renewable, and it is expected to start on April 2017.

The grantees will work at the Intelligent Robots and Systems group of ISR/IST (http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/irsgroup/), and will
also have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with all the other partners of the project, including more research engineers at ISR/IST.

Applications should be sent to Pedro U. Lima (pedro.lima  tecnico.ulisboa.pt) until 15 March 2017 by replying to this email and should include

* a detailed CV, including a list of publications;
* a brief statement about research interests and motivation to join the project, and 
* the name and contact of 2 references. 

Pedro U. Lima
Professor at Instituto Superior Tecnico
ISR, Torre Norte
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049-001 Lisboa
Portugal


http://www.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~pal