Assistant Research Scientist (PREP0004173)

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, thus requires that such institutions must be the recipient 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. Research Title: Multi-Sensor Time Synchronization US Citizen Preferred: The work will entail: The Intelligent Systems Division is looking for an intern to design, construct, and document a hardware system for generating simultaneous time synchronization signals for multiple sensor systems. This system will generate and transmit signals that will be leveraged to temporally align multiple streams of data during human subject trials. The chosen candidate will work as part of a team to advance NIST’s human-robot interaction research. Task efforts will include the development of hardware and so...