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A Dynamic Community

At APL, we are dedicated to pioneering new technologies to address some of the world’s most critical challenges. We encourage creativity and bold new ideas by creating a vibrant, welcoming atmosphere where you can bring your authentic self to work, continue to grow, and build strong connections with inspiring teammates. We offer generous benefits toward continuing education, retirement, and a healthy work/life balance. APL’s campus is located in the Baltimore-Washington metro area.

Robotic Control Researcher

Are you passionate about pursuing groundbreaking research to solve today's greatest challenges in robotics?

Do you enjoy working on meaningful interdisciplinary problems?

Do you thrive in a collaborative and creative environment?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL.

We are seeking a highly motivated roboticist to team with us in taking Intelligent Systems from concept to reality. We are a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers focused on groundbreaking impacts in the areas of robotics, machine learning, and assured autonomy. As a Robotic Control Researcher, you will support research and development across the broad spectrum of robotics, with applications that strengthen national defense and address other critical challenges facing our nation, from space exploration to climate change.

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Foundational AI Research Lead

Are you an established researcher currently pursuing ground-breaking innovations in artificial intelligence (AI)?

Do you have a vision for how to close the gaps preventing large language models and other forms of generative AI from being trusted in critical applications? 

Do you thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join the Artificial Intelligence Group within JHU/APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Department (REDD). We are one of four groups in the Intelligent Systems Center (ISC) with expertise in Neuroscience, Robotics, AI, and Complex Systems. The AI Group conducts pioneering AI research with mission intent; we aim for game-changing innovations that can broadly impact the role AI plays in national security, health, and space exploration missions. We are seeking an experienced researcher who is motivated to lead pioneering research in foundational AI and interdisciplinary efforts with these other fields.

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Robotics Engineer

Are you passionate about pursuing groundbreaking research to solve today's greatest challenges in robotics?

Do you enjoy working on meaningful interdisciplinary problems?

Do you thrive in a collaborative and creative environment?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL.

We are seeking a highly motivated robotics engineer to team with us in taking Intelligent Systems from concept to reality. We are a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers focused on groundbreaking impacts in the areas of robotics, machine learning, and autonomy. As a Robotics Engineer on our team, you will develop robotic systems and support research across the broad spectrum of robotics, with applications in national security, space exploration missions, and health.

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2024 Internship - Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems

Do you love to use artificial intelligence (AI) and data analysis to process, analyze, and interpret data?

Are you interested in exploring different complex systems domains, including earth, physical, and biological systems?

If you are pursuing a degree in an AI-related field and interested in working at the intersection of complex systems, we’d love to meet you!

We are seeking creative problem solvers with diverse capabilities and interests, as well as proven initiative, to join our team in taking on technical challenges in complex systems. The Complex Systems Group, within the Intelligent Systems Center (ISC), develops novel AI methods to transform climate intelligence and earth systems research, as well as to accelerate scientific discovery and design for materials, protein engineering, and other physical and biological systems.

As an intern on our research team, you will contribute to projects in a variety of ways, such as designing, training, and developing machine learning (ML) algorithms, collecting and preparing data, evaluating models, and programming. We are committed to developing exceptional talent and fostering a culture of innovation, and as part of our group you will have the chance to grow both within AI and data science, as well as in the complex systems we study.

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2024 PhD Graduate – Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems Researcher

Do you love to use artificial intelligence (AI) and data analysis to process, analyze, and interpret data?

Are you interested in exploring different complex systems domains such as climate science, earth systems, environmental resilience, materials science, and biology?

If you are studying an AI-related field and interested in working at the intersection of complex systems, we’d love to meet you!

We are seeking creative problem solvers with diverse capabilities and interests, as well as proven initiative, to join our team in taking on technical challenges in complex systems. The Complex Systems Group, within the Intelligent Systems Center (ISC), develops novel AI methods to transform climate intelligence and earth systems research, as well as accelerate scientific discovery and design for materials, protein engineering, and other physical and biological systems.

As a researcher in our group, your primary responsibility will be contributing to and leading AI projects for complex systems. As a member of our research team, you will contribute to projects in a variety of ways, such as designing, training, and developing machine learning (ML) algorithms, collecting and preparing data, evaluating models, and programming. You will establish collaborations with complex system domain experts and seek opportunities to propose your ideas for internal or external funding. You will also establish working relationships with our Program Managers to identify opportunities to grow our work in key areas. You will publish your research in impactful venues and engage with the external research community, external collaborators, and sponsors.

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2024 Graduate – Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems

Do you love to use artificial intelligence (AI) and data analysis to process, analyze, and interpret data?

Are you interested in exploring different complex systems domains such as climate science, earth systems, environmental resilience, materials science, and biology? 

If you are studying an AI-related field and interested in working at the intersection of complex systems, we’d love to meet you!

We are seeking creative problem solvers with diverse capabilities and interests, as well as proven initiative, to join our team in taking on technical challenges in complex systems. The Complex Systems Group, within the Intelligent Systems Center (ISC), develops novel AI methods to transform climate intelligence and earth systems research, as well as accelerate scientific discovery and design for materials, protein engineering, and other physical and biological systems.

As a member of our research team, you will contribute to projects in a variety of ways, such as designing, training, and developing machine learning (ML) algorithms, collecting and preparing data, evaluating models, and programming. We are committed to developing exceptional talent and fostering a culture of innovation, and as part of our group you will have the chance to grow both within AI and data science, as well as in the complex systems we study.

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Senior AI Researcher - Remote Sensing Applications

Are you an expert in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), or computer vision?

Are you excited by how these rapidly-evolving technologies are transforming the fields of remote sensing and Earth observation?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL!

We are seeking a Senior AI Researcher in Remote Sensing Applications to join the Complex Systems Group in the Research & Exploratory Development Department. Come help us invent the future of intelligent systems and solve real-world problems of national importance! We strive to foster an environment that welcomes a diversity of backgrounds and professional experience as we make advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

We want someone who is highly skilled and motivated to lead and support research projects to strengthen the intelligence gained from multimodal data, including images from Earth-observing satellites. We are particularly interested in improving our sponsors’ understanding of climate change, its effect on national and international security, and how it will impact the livelihood of current and future generations.

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2024 Internship - Robotics Intern

Are you passionate about solving today’s greatest challenges in robotics?

Do you enjoy working on meaningful interdisciplinary problems?

Do you thrive in a collaborative and creative environment?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL.

If you are an undergraduate or graduate student pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, we'd love to have you join our team!  The Robotics Group in the Research and Exploratory Development Department is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that is inventing the future across the broad spectrum of robotics, with applications that strengthen national defense, improve healthcare, advance space exploration, and address critical challenges facing the nation. 

We are seeking a highly skilled, highly motivated student intern to join us in taking intelligent robotic systems from concept to reality. We are a multidisciplinary team focused on groundbreaking impacts in the areas of robotics control, machine learning, human-robot and robot-robot teaming, assured autonomy, and novel robot design. Our team is committed to excellence in research that has real-world impact. Successful members of our team tend to be creative problem solvers who are comfortable working at the edge of their comfort zone. We strive to foster an environment that welcomes a diversity of backgrounds and academic experience as we aim to solve the hardest problems in robotics.  Current research areas include robot trajectory planning, robot perception, reinforcement learning, adaptive control, enhanced mobility, novel robotic systems, human-machine and machine-machine teaming, dexterous manipulation, and safe and assured autonomy behaviors.

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2024 Internship - AI/ML Research Intern

Are you interested in pursuing a career in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), or data science?

Do you love to code or analyze data?

Do you thrive in a fast-paced work environment?

If you are an undergraduate or graduate student in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or another field pertaining to AI, we'd love to have you intern with us! The AI Group in the Research and Exploratory Development Department is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that is inventing the future of AI for the nation.  As part of the Intelligent Systems Center (ISC), we often collaborate with roboticists and neuroscientists to take an interdisciplinary approach to these problems. 

Our team is committed to excellence in research and having a real-world impact. Successful interns tend to have strong programming and analytical skills with lots of initiative to explore new approaches to hard problems.  As a member of our team, your primary responsibility will be helping us develop and test state-of-the-art AI/ML algorithms on multiple projects. You will write code, analyze data, and run experiments. You will get the opportunity to work alongside and learn from world-class experts in AI/ML and their application domains, and potentially collaborate on papers being published in the scientific literature and presented at international conferences.

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2024 PhD Graduate - Cognitive and Neural Engineering Researcher

Are you passionate about designing systems or algorithms using what we know about the mind and brain?

Do you want to help invent the future of how people interact with intelligent systems?

If you are graduating with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cognitive Science, Mathematics or a related subject area, we'd love to have you join our team!

We are seeking a researcher to contribute to and lead pioneering work in neural interfaces, neurally-inspired AI and/or human-machine teaming. We are a large multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists engaged in groundbreaking research in applied neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and robotics. We are looking for a motivated and collaborative teammate to support research and development of intelligent systems as a strategic advantage for the nation.

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2024 PhD Graduate - Robotics Group

Are you passionate about pursuing groundbreaking research to solve today’s greatest challenges in robotics?

Do you enjoy working on meaningful interdisciplinary problems?

Do you thrive in a collaborative and creative environment?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL.

If you are graduating with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, we'd love to have you join our team!  The Robotics Group in the Research and Exploratory Development Department is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that is inventing the future across the broad spectrum of robotics, with applications that strengthen national defense, improve healthcare, advance space exploration, and address critical challenges facing the nation. 

We are seeking a highly skilled, highly motivated scientists and engineers to join us in taking intelligent robotic systems from concept to reality. We are a multidisciplinary team focused on groundbreaking impacts in the areas of robotics control, machine learning, human-robot and robot-robot teaming, assured autonomy, and novel robot design. Our team is committed to excellence in research that has real-world impact. Successful members of our team tend to be creative problem solvers who are comfortable working at the edge of their comfort zone. We strive to foster an environment that welcomes a diversity of backgrounds and professional experience as we aim to solve the hardest problems in robotics. 

 As a member of our team, your primary responsibility will be defining and developing novel robotic concepts, systems, and algorithmic solutions to address relevant challenges. Current research areas include robot trajectory planning, reinforcement learning, robot perception, adaptive control, enhanced mobility, novel robotic systems, human-machine and machine-machine teaming, dexterous manipulation, and safe and assured autonomy behaviors. Depending on your expertise, you will develop and implement control algorithms, machine learning techniques, and robot designs.  You will have the opportunity to publish your work, and present the results of your efforts to the scientific community, external collaborators, and/or government sponsors.  You will also have the opportunity to propose and work on their own research.

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2024 Graduate - Robotics Engineer

Are you passionate about pursuing groundbreaking research to solve today’s greatest challenges in robotics?

Do you enjoy working on meaningful interdisciplinary problems?

Do you thrive in a collaborative and creative environment?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our team at APL.

If you are graduating with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, we'd love to have you join our team!  The Robotics Group in the Research and Exploratory Development Department is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that is inventing the future across the broad spectrum of robotics, with applications that strengthen national defense, improve healthcare, advance space exploration, and address critical challenges facing the nation. 

We are seeking a highly skilled, highly motivated scientist or engineer to join us in taking intelligent robotic systems from concept to reality. We are a multidisciplinary team focused on groundbreaking impacts in the areas of robotics control, machine learning, human-robot and robot-robot teaming, assured autonomy, and novel robot design. Our team is committed to excellence in research that has real-world impact. Successful members of our team tend to be creative problem solvers who are comfortable working at the edge of their comfort zone. We strive to foster an environment that welcomes a diversity of backgrounds and professional experience as we aim to solve the hardest problems in robotics. 

As a member of our team, your primary responsibility will be defining and developing new robotic systems and algorithmic solutions to address relevant challenges. Current research areas include robot trajectory planning, robot perception, reinforcement learning, adaptive control, enhanced mobility, novel robotic systems, human-machine and machine-machine teaming, dexterous manipulation, and safe and assured autonomy behaviors. Depending on your expertise, you will write code, develop algorithms, implement machine learning techniques, design and fabricate hardware, integrate systems, and support field tests.  You will have the opportunity to publish your work, and present the results of your efforts to the scientific community, external collaborators, and/or government sponsors.  APL also has opportunities for staff at all experience levels to propose and work on their own research.

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2024 PhD Graduate – AI/ML Research Scientist

Are you an early-career expert in artificial intelligence (AI)?

Are you interested in developing new interdisciplinary research collaborations?

Do you want to make an impact on national security, public health, or space exploration?

The AI Group in the Intelligent Systems Center (ISC) is inventing the future of AI for JHU/APL and the nation. We are currently looking for new researchers with ideas for pioneering work in multimodal perception, autonomous decision-making, AI safety and assurance, large language models, or human-machine teaming. If you are a recent PhD graduate in an AI-related field, we want to meet you!

As a researcher in our group, your primary responsibility will be contributing to and leading fundamental research in AI/ML and applying your ideas to real-world problems. You will begin by writing code, analyzing data, and running experiments in support of current projects. Within your first year, you will get many opportunities to propose your own ideas for internal seedling funding. Within the first five years, we expect you to work with our Program Managers to grow these seedlings into externally-funded projects. Along the way, you will continue to publish your work and present your vision to the scientific community, external collaborators, and/or government sponsors.

Our team is committed to excellence in research with real-world mission intent. Successful researchers tend to be creative problem solvers who have lots of initiative. Our culture welcomes a diversity of backgrounds and professional experience as we aim to solve hard, interdisciplinary problems.

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2024 Graduate - AI/ML Research Engineer

Are you excited by current breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI)?

Do you love to code?

Do you want to make an impact on national security, public health, or space exploration?

If you are graduating with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics and hope to pursue a research career, we want to meet you! The AI Group in the Research and Exploratory Development Department is a team of researchers that is inventing the future of AI for the nation.  

As a member of our team, your primary responsibility will be writing code, analyzing data, and running experiments for multiple research projects. You will get opportunities to publish your work and present the results of your efforts to the scientific community, external collaborators, and/or government sponsors. We hire for a career, not for a specific project; within five years, we want to help you grow as a technical leader who can work independently and develops new ideas for us to pursue.

Our team is committed to excellence in research with real-world mission intent. Successful researchers tend to be creative problem solvers who have lots of initiative. Our culture welcomes a diversity of backgrounds and professional experience as we aim to solve hard, interdisciplinary problems.

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