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POSITION SPECIFICS​

We are seeking highly motivated Research and Development Engineers to join our Computational Intelligence and Visualization Application Department of the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State. You will assist in providing customers with state-of-the-art visualization and decision support. The primary focus will be researching and developing feasible algorithmic solutions to our sponsor’s complex problems given large sets of multivariate data.

ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply.

You will:

• Designing, developing, and researching machine learning systems, models, and schemes
• Studying, transforming, and applying state-of-the-art machine learning prototypes to sponsor specific domains
• Searching and selecting appropriate data sets before performing data collection and data modeling
• Visualizing data for deeper insights
• Generating and presenting technical research reports and briefings
• Performing statistical analysis in support of pattern of life and anomaly detection
• Performing data fusion and correlation
• Building high quality software prototypes integrated with our various research and pre-production software environments
• Collaborate with other ARL staff and sponsors
• Supervise the work of lower level staff and undergraduate student
• Perform tasks of a larger scope and lead specific tasks within the project scope

Required skills/knowledge includes: 

• Data science/algorithm development
• Data science / Machine Learning languages to include Python
• Research, development and implementation of machine learning models

Preferred skills/knowledge includes: 

• A Master’s degree
• Training and optimizing ML algorithms on GPU hardware architectures, specifically NVIDIA based
• Working with geo-spatial data
• Statistics, multivariable calculus, and linear algebra
• Exploratory data analysis and visualization
• Data science / Machine Learning tools to include Pandas, PyTorch/TensorFlow, NumPy, MatPlotLib, PostGreSQL, FastAPI
• Software Development tools to include Git, Docker, Kubernetes, SSH
• Active TS/SCI Clearance

Your work location will be on-site State College PA or Re