Research Fellow
Job No.: 670286
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: 2-year fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: $80,464 - $109,203 pa Level A (plus 17% employer superannuation)
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The Opportunity
Monash robotics has an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the team. Monash Robotics is Australia’s leading human-centred robot research facility, comprising 9 full-time faculty members and over 60 PhD students and postdoctoral research fellows.
This position will contribute to the research activities of the recently awarded ARC Linkage Grant titled “Intelligent Robotics for Pharmaceutical Experimental Development”, a collaboration between CSL Behring and Monash. The objectives of the project are to:
- develop a robotic lab assistant that can learn to perform experimental procedures to help with automating laborious experimental tasks,
- develop and implement an interactive task and motion planner to optimally schedule experimental procedures, and
- develop the necessary interfaces to enable successful collaboration between the proposed intelligent robotic system and biochemists.
Working closely with Prof. Kulic and Dr Burke, the research fellow will develop robot simulators and human-in-the-loop digital twin models of laboratory robots and experimental equipment, develop robot algorithms for task and motion planning, and deploy the developed algorithms in simulation, user studies and hardware, in collaboration with our industry partner.
To be successful in this role
you will hold a doctoral qualification in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field, with demonstrated hands-on research experience in an area of robotics, automation or software engineering and familiarity with robotics programming libraries and simulation environments.
About Monash University
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Together with our commitment to academic freedom, you will have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure, world-class teaching spaces, and international collaboration opportunities.
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To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Professor Dana Kulic, dana.kulic@monash.edu
Position Description: Research Fellow
Applications Close: Thursday 7 November 2024, 11:55pm AEDT
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