Scientist/Engineer: Distributed Systems State Estimation

The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) opportunity focuses on distributed systems state estimation within the Electronics for Sense and Control division. This position seeks to enable revolutionary advances in three interconnected research spaces: navigation and localization, small scale autonomous systems, and human physiological state monitoring. The research involves developing novel distributed state estimation methodologies, linear and nonlinear controls integration, computer science and hardware engineering to realize a generalized framework for information acquisition and fusion in uncertain environments. The successful candidate will be expected to lead their own research efforts, publish first author papers in peer reviewed literature, contribute technically to peer reviewed literature in diverse areas, and develop experimental and transition efforts across the team. This opportunity involves a mix of skill sets including developing theories supporting distributed state estimation and validating those theories in hardware, with research conducted fluidly in Linux, ROS, Matlab, and C/C++.