Assistant Professor (Research Focussed) (109047-1124)

Location: University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Duration: Ending 29 July 2027

About the Role  

For informal enquiries, please contact Siddartha Khastgir (Professor - Research Focussed) at S.Khastgir.1@warwick.ac.uk. 

This role is part of our growing research portfolio on perception sensor testing, and will involve sensor modelling, sensor model interfacing, sensor data fusing, robustness testing and information extraction, working in collaboration with industry and academic partners.

Successful candidate will be exposed to a variety of academic and industrial partners through a number of our research projects like Horizon Europe funded SUNRISE, SYNERGIES, EVENTS, i4Driving etc., and Innovate UK / CCAV funded DriveSafeAI.

Learn more about Safe Autonomy Research Group’s projects here.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.  

About You  

The successful candidate will have a good understanding of existing sensor technologies, an understanding of scenarios, and scenario-based testing for CAV’s. The successful candidate will have experience with open-source simulation platform such as Carla, esmini, LG simulation along with experiences with robot operating systems (ROS) and/or Autoware AV stack and with sensor interfacing between ROS/Autoware and environment simulations.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 20 November 2024 at 11.55 pm

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

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