Researcher 2 - Structures and Artificial Intelligence Lab (Finance)
Department: Civil Engineering Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
Description:
Provides expertise in support of research projects in engineering, biology, mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics, etc. Prepares and edits research papers, proposal, and reports. Performs advanced testing procedures and analyses of data. May prepare samples for testing. Performs advanced testing procedure and performs analyses of data. Makes uses of a variety of specialized equipment typical within area of specialization. May contribute to grant proposal development.
1. Ensures experiments are performed according to specifications.
2. May make recommendations to changes in procedure, processes, or experimental design.
3. Understands and applies broad theoretical concepts. Develops understanding of specialized scientific or engineering field.
4. Develops leadership and management skills.
5. Assignments are difficult and broad requiring originality and ingenuity.
6. May be assisted by lower-level personnel. Supervision: Receives minimal supervision conferring with higher levels only in usual situations.
Join a team building advanced computer vision systems that model and analyze real-world infrastructure through advances in 3D vision and AI. Our mission is to transform how physical infrastructure environments are documented, monitored, and maintained. You'll contribute to research and development efforts focused on creating accurate digital twins, improving anomaly detection models, and integrating visual data with spatial sensors like RGBD and LiDAR.
This Research Engineer (Researcher 2) role offers the opportunity to work across the full stack of data collection, model training, evaluation, software engineering, and deployment. The research engineer reports to Dr. Vedhus Hoskere in the College of Engineering/Civil and Environmental Engineering who may also be contacted for questions regarding the position (vhoskere@uh.edu)
Initial appointments will be for one year with the possibility of yearly renewal subject to funding availability.
Responsibilities
• Design and implement deep learning architectures, AI agent pipelines, and computer vision algorithms to achieve project goals (33%)
• Conduct full stack development efforts including UI/UX, code maintenance, and deployment pipelines (33%)
• Evaluate and refine AI models using annotated data and real-world image datasets (10%)
• Curate multimodal real and synthetic datasets, including photogrammetry, LiDAR, and depth cameras, to build scalable analysis pipelines (10%)
• Conduct data collection for validation of developed approaches (may involve occasional travel) (2%)
• Collaborate with graduate and undergraduate student researchers (5%)
• Perform other duties as assigned (7%)
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, or a related field
• Strong Python programming skills
• 3 years software engineering experience
• Practical experience with computer vision, ML, or 3D scene understanding
• Ability to work collaboratively across technical teams
• US Citizen or Permanent Resident
Preferred
• Master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, or a related field
• Experience with photogrammetry, LiDAR alignment, or large-scale 3D data, and deep learning-based 3D vision and graphics
• Familiarity with image annotation tools and dataset iteration workflows
• Contributions to open-source, research publications, or production ML systems
Education will be considered in lieu of experience.
MQ: Bachelor's Degree with 3 years experience.
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