Are you an early-career researcher who wants to invent the future of artificial intelligence (AI)?

Are you looking for a supportive environment that empowers you to pursue your own vision?

Do you want your research to have a real-world impact on areas like national security, public health, or space exploration?

The AI Group in the Intelligent Systems Center (ISC) is currently looking for early-career scientists that are passionate about advancing intelligent systems with emerging AI research. Our research thrusts include multimodal perception, autonomous decision-making, safe/trustworthy AI, and adversarial vulnerabilities/defenses. If you are publishing in any of these areas, we want to talk to you!

As an AI researcher in the ISC, your primary responsibility will be contributing to and leading fundamental research and applying your ideas to real-world problems. You will begin by writing code, analyzing data, and running experiments in support of current projects. Within your first year, you will get many opportunities to propose your own ideas for internal seedling funding. Within the first five years, we expect you to work with our Program Managers to grow these seedlings into externally-funded projects. Along the way, you will continue to publish your work and engage the scientific community, external collaborators, and/or government sponsors.

Our team is committed to groundbreaking research with mission intent. Successful researchers tend to be creative problem solvers who have lots of initiative. Our culture welcomes a diversity of backgrounds and professional experience as we strive to solve hard, interdisciplinary problems.

You meet our minimum qualifications for the job if you:

• Have a PhD or equivalent degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Applied Mathematics with dissertation work in fundamental AI research.
• Have published your dissertation work in peer-reviewed journals and/or conferences.
• Are skilled in Python programming and are have working knowledge of PyTorch and the HuggingFace stack, including the Transformers library.
• Are eligible for a DoD Top Secret security clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a background investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.

You'll go above and beyond our minimum requirements if you have experience in any of these areas:

• Generative AI, including large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models.
• Single- or multi-agent deep reinforcement learning in constrained environments.
• Adversarial attacks and defenses in models pertaining to imagery, video, audio, or text.
• 3D neural rendering techniques such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF).
• Project management or leading small technical teams.
• Writing technical proposals, particularly to government research sponsors.

APL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, occupation, marital or familial status, political opinion, personal appearance, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

APL is committed to promoting an innovative environment that embraces diversity, encourages creativity, and supports inclusion of new ideas. In doing so, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals of all abilities, including those with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in any part of the hiring process, please contact Accommodations@jhuapl.edu. Only by ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard are we empowered to be bold, do great things, and make the world a better place.