Assistant Research Scientist

About the role

The University of Florida seeks an assistant research scientist (12-month, non-tenure track faculty appointment in the Anita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies) to work closely with project investigators to advance new and ongoing research enterprises within the vision of the Early Childhood Studies Advanced Technology Lab.

Responsibilities

• Establish and advance their own portfolio of extramurally-funded research in collaboration with Center faculty, staff, and students
• Support existing sensing technology grants and dissemination efforts

Requirements

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, OR a Ph.D. in or related to Education with equivalent experience with sensing technology
• Ability to conduct speech processing on recordings from natural language environments (home, school, community), with a focus on young children and caregivers
• Experience in sensing technology dataset building and merging data from multiple sensing tools
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills, ability, and experience authoring scientific journal publications and/or technical reports
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the writing of research proposals
• Experience developing and evaluating innovative technologies for behavioral assessment and/or intervention
• Experience with Python, Java, and other types of programming languages
• Interest, ability, and experience in the design and execution of collaborative multi-disciplinary research
• Experience with research development and management in settings for children aged birth to eight years

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, OR a Ph.D. in or related to Education with equivalent experience with sensing technology
• Ability to conduct speech processing on recordings from natural language environments (home, school, community), with a focus on young children and caregivers
• Experience in sensing technology dataset building and merging data from multiple sensing tools
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills, ability, and experience authoring scientific journal publications and/or technical reports
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the writing of research proposals
• Experience developing and evaluating innovative technologies for behavioral assessment and/or intervention
• Experience with Python, Java, and other types of programming languages
• Interest, ability, and experience in the design and execution of collaborative multi-disciplinary research
• Experience with research development and management in settings for children aged birth to eight years

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to conduct speech processing on recordings from natural language environments (home, school, community)
• Experience in sensing technology dataset building and merging data from multiple sensing tools
• Outstanding research proposal writing skills
• Experience developing and evaluating innovative technologies for behavioral assessment and/or intervention
• Experience with Python, Java, and other types of programming languages
• Interest, ability, and experience in the design and execution of collaborative multi-disciplinary research
• Experience with research development and management in settings for children aged birth to eight years

Benefits

Commensurate with education and experience

Pay

Commensurate with education and experience

Schedule

12-month, non-tenure track faculty appointment