Associate Research Scientist (PREP0004211)

Job description

Description PREP Research Associate: This position is part of the National Institute of Standards (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest and thus requires that such institutions be the recipients of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas. Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration. A candidate hired for this position will be through the university that is associated with the NIST PREP program and will be an employee of that University. For example, see Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) | Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) (umd.edu) Research Title: Robotics and Perception Engineer: Perception Performance of Robotic Systems Position Description: The Intelligent Systems Division at NIST is investigating the performance of 3D machine vision systems for various manufacturing applications. The research will focus on integrating 3D bin-picking visi...