Improving impact of healthcare robots

Organisation/Company Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)- Barcelona

TECH Research Field Engineering » Computer engineering Engineering » Control engineering Researcher Profile Established Researcher (R3) Positions PhD Positions Final date to receive applications 2 Mar 2026 - 23:00 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Part-time Hours Per Week 2 Offer Starting Date 9 Mar 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number  Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Mission:

Provide high-level scientific and technical advice for the line of research in Robot Personalization.

Functions to be developed:

• Supervision of experimental design.
• Identify high-impact research lines.
• Provide mentoring to researchers in training.
• Advice on personalized robotic technology.
• Programming and integration of machine learning algorithms, reinforcement learning and symbolic planning in real robotic platforms.
• User modeling techniques and learning from demonstrations.
• Design and execution of experimental studies with human participants:
  Development of experimental protocols, Data collection and analysis, Quantitative and qualitative evaluation, Interpretation of results in applied environments.

Specific Requirements

Knowledge:

• Artificial Intelligence: machine learning, reinforcement learning, demonstration learning and reinforcement inversion, knowledge representation and symbolic systems, and automatic planning.
• Explainability and transparency in AI systems.
• Computational Theory of Mind.
• Design and evaluation of interactions in real environments.
• It will be assessed:
  • Have completed a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and a degree in Computer Engineering.

Professional Experience:

• Have developed autonomous robotic systems with learning and adaptation capabilities.
• Coordination and supervision of tasks within competitive European projects in the field of AI.
• In the development and experimental validation of systems in real environments with users.
• Experience in functions similar to those described will be valued, specifically in the development of research activities, both in the university and industrial environment.

Other requirements to consider:

• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and international institutions.
• Supervision and mentoring of doctoral, master's and undergraduate students.

Languages CATALAN Level Basic

Languages ENGLISH Level Excellent

Languages SPANISH Level Basic

Research Field Engineering » Computer engineering

Engineering » Control engineering Years of Research Experience 4 - 10

Eligibility criteria

All the candidates who cannot prove the required academic degree will be immediately withdrawn from the selection process.

The CVs will be assessed according the following general criteria:

• The maximum score for the candidates who accomplish all the eligibility criteria stated in the job offer will be 10 points.
• Threshold: 5 points.
• The maximum score (10 points) will be distributed as follows:
• 1 point for required speciality.
• 2 points for required academic training.
• 2 points for technic competences.
• 1 point for organisational competences.
• 3 points for professional experience.
• 1 point for any aspect of the candidate’s professional profile to be determined as specially relevant by the Selection committee.

If the selection committee decide to include a personal interview as additional step of the selection process, only the candidates scored 5 or above for their CV will be retained for the interview step.

The interview will be assessed according the following criteria:

• Threshold: 3 points.
• The maximum score will be distributed according the following criteria:
• 2 points for adequacy to functional competences of the job.
• 2 points for adequacy of professional experience.
• 1 point for any aspect of the candidate’s professional profile to be determined as especially relevant by the Selection committee.

The eligible candidates will be ranked from highest to lowest score, being this the selection criteria.

Selection process

The planned selection process is as follows:

• The members of the selection committee will decide for each case what the selection process will be, if an assessment is made only for the curriculum vitae or any other procedure is planned: interview, tests, etc ...
• Each phase of the selection process will be reported on the website where the offer is published. If applicable, indicate your request.
• Finally, the name of the person selected will be published on the same website where the offer is published.

Number of offers available 1

Company/Institute Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics , CSIC-UPC Country Spain State/Province Barcelona City Barcelona Postal Code 08028 Street Pau Gargallo, 14 Geofield