Senior Research Scientist

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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

Company Overview

Teledyne Scientific Company (TSC) has a legacy of over 50 years of advanced research and technology development. Our customer base consists of DARPA, ONR, AFRL, ARL, and other government and proprietary customers. TSC’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory in North Carolina is a state-of-the-art research and development research facility, dedicated to R&D in the areas of computational neuroscience, deep learning, machine learning, persistent surveillance, autonomous systems, and computer vision. The laboratory currently is host to world-class scientists and engineers, with advanced degrees in computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering, neuroscience, chemistry, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering.

Position Summary and Responsibilities

Teledyne Scientific Company is seeking candidates for a Senior Research Scientist to support advanced research and development and program capture for machine learning, and other advanced technology applications. We are particularly interested in machine learning and signal processing for RF, RADAR, Communications, and SAR. This position is at our research laboratory in Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina.

Primary Responsibilities:

The position involves driving strategic direction, program capture, and research and development tasks related to mathematics, computer software and algorithm development, machine learning, laboratory experiments, and demonstrations. Specific duties include:

• Lead programs as a Principal Investigator

• Lead program capture and proposal writing efforts

• Organize and lead program execution to meet program deliverables and metrics

• Design, develop and test mathematical algorithms for various projects involving signal/image processing and machine learning

• Design, develop and test software related to signal/image processing and machine learning

• Work closely with team members to develop solutions to challenging problems

• Prepare and present results to customers, executives, and technical staff

Skills/Experience:

• Proven track record of writing winning proposals to DARPA, IARPA, and other DoD and IC organizations

• At least 5 years of experience with program capture and leading programs as PI

• Strong foundation in numerical techniques (FFT, Monte Carlo, finite elements, linear algebra, PDEs, ODEs, statistics, etc.) are required

• Expertise with specific computational domains, such as machine learning/artificial intelligence, image processing, signal processing is required, e.g.,

  • Signal Processing Expertise: Fourier analysis, noise modeling, and understanding of complex signal properties.

  • Radar Expertise: Pulse compression, Doppler processing, digital filter banks, synthetic aperture radar, and signal phenomenology.

  • Communications Expertise: ADC/DAC, digital modulation, wireless channel modeling, probability and random processes, and dispersive channels and MIMO.

  • Simulation experience: Matlab/Python/C++ experience modeling communications and/or radar hardware for performance analysis and signal generation.

• Experience with prototyping and analyzing algorithms

• Experience with CUDA and GPU programming strongly desired

• Experience with Rancher/Kubernetes is a plus

• Familiarity with scientific programming in Python is required

• Strong skills in successfully organizing and coordinating projects and activities

• Excellent interpersonal and communication (presentation & writing) skills

• Coursework in software development and computer architecture required

• Coursework in algorithms is strongly desired

Education:

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar technical discipline

Citizenship & Clearance:

• Candidates are required to be U.S. Citizens

• Ability to obtain a securit