Principal Research Scientist - Autonomy

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** Date Posted:
**** Country:
** United States of America
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* Location:

** US-CT-EAST HARTFORD-RTRC A ~ 411 Silver Ln ~ RTRC A
** Position Role Type:
** Hybrid
* * U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
** U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
** Security Clearance Type:
** None/Not Required
** Security Clearance Status:
** Not Required

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity.

The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.The following position is to join our RTX Corporate, Enterprise Services, Research Center or BBN team:

RTX Technology Research Center (RTRC) has a newly created position of Research Scientist in Autonomous Collaborative Systems (ACS). In this role, you will join the ACS team under the Artificial Intelligence (AI) discipline  team is engaged in a wide variety of research areas including computer vision, decision making, trustworthy and explainable AI and human-machine symbiosis for a variety of high impact real world problems in the aerospace, manufacturing, and defense industries.

Examples of relevant problems include multi-agent coordination, self-functioning systems of systems, cybersecurity, automated visual inspection of parts, and robotic perception and manipulation.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong foundation in AI and Autonomy, demonstrated by a track record of innovation through patents, contributions to research, and/or publications in prestigious venues. Relevant conferences include NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems), CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference), ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation), IROS (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems), RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems), and AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), among other leading research forums.
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* What You Will Do:

*** We are looking for a candidate who is eager to apply and extend state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence approaches to a variety of application areas. Someone who is especially motivated to work towards enabling autonomous capabilities including sensing & perception, task & motion planning, reasoning & decision making, human-autonomy teaming, and robot learning.
* Designing and developing algorithms for perception, decision-making, human-machine collaboration, networked and teamed systems, and next generation autonomous platforms.
* Prototyping and simulating autonomous systems by writing code, developing software (simulation and visualization), creating algorithms, interfacing software/hardware, and supporting real-time demonstrations of autonomy in live, virtual, and simulation test environments.
* Leading and supporting externally and internally sponsored programs, writing external and internal research proposals.
* Building relationships to support partnership with leading, worldwide institutions (university, government agencies, national labs, and professional organizations) and meet organizational objectives.
* Disseminating research results through reports, conference proceedings, presentations, and technical papers for archival journals.
** Qualifications You Must Have:
*** Ph.D. in Robotics, Computational Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace, Mathematics, or a related field.
* 5+ years of hands-on experience in working with autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, deep/reinforcement/machine learning, robotics, dynamics and controls, flight test and evaluation, modeling & simulation, data science, and statistical analysis
* Experience applying AI based perception and/or Reinforcement Learning techniques to solve real world problems
* Broad awareness of advancements in intelligent autonomous systems
* Programming languages:
Python, C++, ROS; cloud computing, and configuration management
* U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access the financial management system due to government contractual requirements
** Qualifications We Prefer:
*** Experience using a modern software development environment including automated testing,…