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We are the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. For more than a century, NIST has helped to keep U.S. technology at the leading edge. Our measurements support the smallest of technologies to the largest and most complex of human-made creations.
NIST's mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. To learn more about us, visit this site!
The NIST Measurement Science For Manufacturing Robotics (MSMR) Programis looking for new members to join our robotics team. Multiple positions are available based on level of education and experience. Because NIST is an agency of the U.S. Federal Government, you must be a US citizen to apply. NIST is located in Gaithersburg, MD, approximately 20 miles north of Washington DC.
The goal of the MSMR Program is to develop and deploy measurement science, standards, and test methods that advance manufacturing robotic system performance, collaboration, agility, autonomy, safety, and ease of implementation to enhance U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness. To perform research in this area, we have an extensive set of laboratories and state-of-the-art robotics technologies. We are looking for candidates with some of the following knowledge and/or experience.
Desired Research Skills: Robot Performance Evaluation, Robotic Hand Grasping, Robot Planning, Robot Perception/Image Processing/Analysis, Systems Integration, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Robot Calibration, Standards Development, Algorithm Development for Various Robot Competencies, Exploratory data analysis and statistics
If interested, please email a copy of your resume to kamel.saidi [at] nist.gov (Kam Saidi)and Tony Downs.