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Brookhaven National Laboratory · 14 hours ago

Postdoctoral Researcher

Upton, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$74K/yr - $80K/yr

Brookhaven National Laboratory is dedicated to employee success and conducts fundamental research to support a sustainable and resilient net-zero society. The postdoctoral researcher will focus on improving geospatial imagery analysis through the development and testing of advanced AI models.

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Responsibilities

Conduct independent research

Report on results of the research in form of presentations, publications

Develop and test AI models

Innovate on different AI architectures

Integrate AI models with other software tools

Develop, test and implement data pipelines

Qualification

Geospatial AIAI model developmentProgramming expertiseData pipelinesVision transformersExplainable AISelf-supervised learningGeospatial programming librariesFoundation modelsGraph transformersMulti-modal masked auto encodersLarger-scale AI models

Required

Required PhD in geosciences, computer science, engineering or related field

Proven research record in geospatial AI as evidenced by publications

Expertise with development of AI models

Hands-on programming expertise

Explainable, ethical AI

Knowledge about vision transformers, self-supervised learning

Broad familiarity with geospatial programming libraries

Preferred

Non-LLM foundation model expertise

Time Series Foundation Models

Expertise with Graph transformers

Knowledge with multi-modal masked auto encoders

Expertise in developing larger-scale AI models (SLURM)

Company

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Brookhaven National Laboratory is a multi-purpose research institution focused on questions in basic and applied science.

Founded in 1947

Upton, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.bnl.gov/

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Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

unknown

Key Investors

US Department of Energy

2022-09-19Grant

Leadership Team

Thomas Schlagel

Advisor

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