Research engineer at the LTH Robotics Lab - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Description of the workplace 
The robot lab is a lab facility with a large variety of robots, shared between the Deptartment of Automatic Control and the Deptartment of Computer Science. You will be hired at the Deptartment of Computer Science and be a member of the Robotics and Semantic Systems (RSS) research group. The robot lab has more than 20 scientists, PhD students and engineers that collaborate on various robotics projects.

The vision of the robot lab is to support research of highest international standard, to make autonomous and collaborative robotic systems productive and to provide expertise and robotic systems for collaboration with departments across the university and with companies. The mission of the robot lab is to develop autonomous robotic systems where all components of the robot are interacting with each other, with the environment and with robots and humans. We use an agile approach with verification and validation of research results on the running robotic system.

All work is supported by a strong software base that has been developed across multiple projects.

We offer 
Lund University is a public authority which means that employees get particular benefits, generous annual leave and an advantageous occupational pension scheme. 
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Work duties 
Work duties consists of working as research engineering including working with student and project supervision. The idea is to have you deeply involved in all the fun in the robot lab activities, e.g., master thesis projects and PhD project support. You are also expected to contribute as co-author on research papers.

You would be the one who knows details about the software running on our robots, incl. our new SPOT robot, the mobile manipulator (MIR-platform with UR-5 arm), KUKA IIWAs and ABB YuMis, and our big ABB robots.

In general, there is plenty of software developed in the lab by the PhD and master students. But as soon as the student vanishes, the software often gets lost. Your mission would be to assure some continuity, for example by suggesting solutions that help to maintain software long term or develop and enforce guidelines for the students on how to do proper documentation and how to leave software in a state so that others can use. With this you would help with building up a software repository for all to use.

As part of the work participation in relevant teaching is also an important part.

The work duties also include:

• to maintain our software system “SkiROS”, make it easily accessible and help novel researchers to get started with it.
• make the software resources easily available for supporting novel research ideas.
• provide the highly needed software resources towards the lab’s scientific vision.
• support the Lab’s strategic plan of offering expertise to companies, schools and across Lund University.
• embedded and hardware-close software development and close interaction with mechatronics development in the RobotLab.
• master thesis and project supervision.

Qualifications  
Required qualifications for the position are:

• PhD in Robotics, Machine Learning or similar.
• Very good oral and written proficiency in English.
• Very good knowledge of
  • Python, C++, ROS and SkiROS
  • Linux, incl. RT-Linux Kernel-programming, container-runtimes
  • Robotics, AI, Machine Learning
  • Computer network stacks
  • DevOps methods such as continuous integration, integration-tests, etc.
• Practical experience from working with robots.
• You have good ability to collaborate.
• You are independence and have a good ability to work structured.

Additional qualifications for the position are:

• Taking initiatives and curious to learn new things.
• Energetic and persistence to get things to work.
• Experience from research and student supervision.
• Experience from teaching.
• Completed courses on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.

Consideration will also be given to how the applicant’s experience and skills complement and strengthen ongoing research within the robot lab.

Further information 
The employment is for an indefinite term with a scope of 100 % of full time starting as soon as possible by agreement. A contract for probationary employment of a limited duration may also be entered into, provided that the probationary period does not exceed six months.

How to apply 
Applications are to be submitted via the University’s recruitment system. The application should include a CV and a personal letter justifying your interest in the position and how it matches your qualifications. The application should also include a degree certificates or equivalent and any other document to which you would like to draw attention (copies of grade transcripts, details of referees, letters of recommendation, etc.)

Welcome with your application!