Postdoctoral Fellow

The College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon is a world-class engineering college recognized for excellence, innovation, and the societal relevance and impact of its pursuits. We produce creative and technically strong engineers and research pioneering solutions to global challenges. We do this with an unprecedented commitment to integrating across engineering, sciences, arts, business, and other disciplines to yield transformative results.

We are currently inviting applications for the Carnegie Bosch Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Fall Semester of 2024 in the areas of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity/privacy and sustainability. Fellowships are sponsored by the Carnegie Bosch Institute (CBI), a world-class research center located within Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Applications are sought from candidates together with prospective faculty hosts.

Carnegie Bosch Fellowships are two-year awards supporting outstanding postdoctoral researchers conducting high-potential research within the excellence-driven environment of CMU. Offering benefits beyond 'traditional' postdoc roles, Fellows are provided with the resources, flexibility, and environment to address "grand challenge" style problems in line with their research vision together with their faculty host. Postdoctoral positions supported by CBI provide remarkable opportunities to not only shape the next generation of research, while offering. Fellows the chance to develop other skills necessary to advance their academic careers in exceptional directions. Fellowship recipients are expected to broadly with the international research community in their respective fields and will be provided resources to aid with these efforts, e.g. conference registration + travel, workshop/conference organization support, etc.

Carnegie Bosch Fellows are hosted within colleges at CMU and provided with mentorship and direction from world-class faculty as well as access to industry-grade resources from Bosch. Specifically, Fellows are paired with a faculty host working closely to inspire and guide their overall research efforts, and an additional distinguished member of the senior faculty offering unique mentorship support. In addition, Fellows will have the opportunity to be introduced to experts from the global Bosch Corporate Research organization, providing additional insight and counsel from an industrial perspective and sharing access to real-world challenges from domains such as mobility systems, advanced manufacturing and future IoT systems.

Application Requirements

To be considered, prospective candidates must apply through the CMU Career site, in addition to submitting the following material via the online application page by January 26, 2024.

• Cover Letter

• Curriculum Vitae

• Research Statement (maximum three pages), outlining a compelling long-term vision for a research program whose development would be supported by participation in the CBI Fellowship Program:

• How will you use the time and resources provided by your Fellowship to advance this vision?

• How will you take advantage of collaboration opportunities at CMU (and beyond)?

• What makes you the right candidate to pursue this vision?

• What will be the eventual impact of this research beyond the core technical results? How will it impact society in a transformative way (e.g. sustainability)?

• Professional References (maximum three)

• Letter of Support (maximum one page) from prospective faculty collaboration host at CMU

You should demonstrate:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to write results for publication in the scientific literature.

• Ability to plan and facilitate research related events

• Strong analytical skills.

• Ability to mentor students.

• Proficiency to conduct research in the areas specified by the host

Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree completion at the time of fellowship commencement

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Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Job Function

Pre/Post-Doctoral Associates & Fellows

Position Type

Postdoctoral Associate / Fellow (Fixed Term)

Full Time/Part time

Full time

Pay Basis

Salary

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