Postdoctoral Research Associate for AI and Computer Vision
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM0–5 yrs1h agovia LinkedIn
About the Role
The Computing and Artificial Intelligence (CAI) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to develop innovative artificial intelligence and computer vision methods for national security applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop methods for analyzing image data from sources such as scanning electron microscopy, optical microscopy, overhead imagery, and video.
- Develop multimodal and data-fusion approaches that integrate imagery, spectra, experimental measurements, natural language, and other heterogeneous data.
- Apply developed methods to nuclear forensics.
- Contribute to other research challenges across LANL's national security mission.
- Work as part of a collaborative, cross-disciplinary research team spanning computer vision, machine learning, statistics, materials science, and other scientific domains.
- Develop new methods, work with challenging real-world scientific data, and collaborate with experts across disciplines.
- Communicate research results through technical reports, presentations, and peer-reviewed publications.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Experience with algorithm development for artificial intelligence and computer vision.
- Proficiency in Python, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
- Experience scaling models in cloud or HPC environments.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. in a related field completed within the last 5 years or soon to be completed.
- Expertise in computer vision for scanning electron microscopy and optical microscopy.
- Experience developing predictive and multimodal ML models.
- Experience developing solutions for uncertainty quantification and/or out-of-distribution samples in limited, noisy, spare and/or high-dimensional data.
- Past research collaborations with experimentalists.
- Experience in multi-disciplinary research projects.
Work Location
- Onsite in Los Alamos, NM.
Clearance
- Q Clearance required.
- Q clearance requires US Citizenship, except in extremely rare circumstances.
- Selected applicants will be subject to a background investigation.
- New-employment drug test required.