Job Summary:
The University of Minnesota is a leading public research university seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Runck Lab as a Research Scientist. This role involves supporting ongoing research and development in areas such as machine learning, data analysis, and geospatial systems, with responsibilities tailored to the candidate's expertise.
Responsibilities:
โข Support research, development, prototyping, testing, and analysis activities across the lab's project portfolio, which may include hardware and firmware systems, software tools, data pipelines, modeling and machine learning workflows, geospatial analysis, or sensor deployment and monitoring.
โข Support the production of professional and policy outputs such as scientific documentation, tutorials, standard operating procedures, online content, journal articles, books, book chapters, and presentations.
โข Support data organization, processing, quality assurance, and visualization for active research projects.
โข Support the deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning of field-deployed systems as needed.
Qualifications:
Required:
โข Bachelor's degree (or higher) in a field relevant to the work, such as electrical, computer, or mechanical engineering; computer science; data science; statistics; geography or GIS; environmental, agricultural, or natural sciences; or a closely related field.
โข Demonstrated experience relevant to one or more of the lab's core areas: hardware/firmware development, software development, data analysis, modeling, machine learning, or geospatial analysis.
โข Good written and verbal communication skills.
โข Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment.
Preferred:
โข Experience with one or more programming or analysis tools commonly used in the lab (e.g., Python, R, C/C++, SQL, MATLAB).
โข Experience with environmental sensing systems, embedded systems, or Internet of Things (IoT) hardware.
โข Experience with data visualization, dashboarding, or database management
Company:
University of Minnesota is an educational institution that offers master's and doctoral degrees in medicine, law, and engineering fields. Founded in 1851, the company is headquartered in Minneapolis, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.