BOEING Hiring for PhD Students – Software /Robotics Job at Brisbane Full Time

About you

These projects would suit someone interested in academic/industry-based research in the areas of Artificial intelligence, Computer Sciences, Digital twins, Virtual world modelling, Synthetic data creation software and system engineering, Mechatronics, Model-based systems engineering, Robotics, or other relevant fields.

Project description

As an industry sponsored PhD program, we aim to achieve not only academic excellence, but also significant advances to real-world products, for example, to extend manufacturing systems and modelling to include real-time evaluations, via computer vision, machine learning and wearable devices, with co-botics and novel automation systems to make a step change in workplace safety, quality, performance and health measurement, design, and operations.

These projects also envision networked-enabled people-robot-material-centric frameworks, in which machine, material, and human dexterity and kinematics, injury risk, and job sequencing between workers and machines are considered holistically and in a combined digital twin.

To achieve this vision, an interdisciplinary approach will be required combining research threads in:

• Artificial Intelligence,
• Machine learning,
• Software engineering, robotics and computer vision, and
• Human-material-machine system engineering.

The successful candidates will work in an industry/academic team and also individually to architect, develop and physically prototype a holistic system for industry use.

Advisory Team

Members of your advisory team may include

Prof Brian Lovell UQ, Dr Chelsea Dobbins UQ; Dr Mehmet Kizil UQ; Dr Phillip Crothers Boeing

About this scholarship

Innovative Boeing aerospace project seeks PhD candidates interested in Software / AI / Computer Vision / Robotics.

This is an opportunity to be part of an innovative PhD programme, working collaboratively with UQ and Boeing supervisors on research with commercial impact. There are three generous, fully funded PhD Scholarships available for truly outstanding candidates

Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defence, space and security systems. If you love modern flying and space machines and are inspired to build the next generation of air and space vehicles, you should consider joining us!

UQ is ranked #46 in the World according to 2021 QS World University Rankings, so your UQ PhD will be highly regarded wherever your career takes you.

Join the team working to advance Boeing Australia’s partnership with the Queensland Government to create an advanced manufacturing and new aerospace capability in Queensland. Announced in October 2020, the partnership could culminate in Queensland becoming the primary final assembly facility for the Boeing Airpower Teaming System. Imagine, your PhD work contributing towards a range of aerospace manufacturing programs, including one of most exciting aircraft projects in recent Australian aerospace history – the first military combat aircraft in 50 years to be designed, built and manufactured in Australia.

Working title: Design for AI and Human/cobotics task allocation

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must:

• be nominated by the Advisory team and enrolling school or institute at UQ
• be assessed by the Graduate School as meeting all conditions for admission to the higher degree by research program and be competitive for scholarship.
• obtain security clearance from Boeing as part of the application process

Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and may be eligible

We are committed to equity and diversity. Female applicants and people of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Island descent are encouraged to apply. Indigenous applicants may be eligible for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Scholarship base living stipend rate.

How to apply

Apply for this scholarship when you apply for a higher degree by research program at UQ. Ideally we are looking for students to start in Research Quarter 1 (January) 2022 (but you will have to apply for Research Quarter 2 as the system is closed for most RQ1 applications at this time)

Before submitting an application you should:

• check your eligibility
• prepare your documentation

When you apply, please ensure that under the scholarships and collaborative study section you:

• Select ‘My higher degree is not collaborative’
• Select ‘I am applying for, or have been awarded a scholarship or sponsorship’.
• Select ‘Boeing – UQ Research Alliance PhD Scholarship’.

Start your application

Selection criteria

Your application will be assessed on a competitive basis.

We take into account your:

• previous academic record
• publication record
• honours and awards
• employment history

Rules

Read the UQ Research Scholarships terms and conditions. If selected, you will also be required to sign an intellectual property and confidentiality deed poll.

The information you provide in your application is collected for the purposes of (1) assessing your eligibility for this scholarship, (2) selecting scholarship recipients, and (3) administration of the scholarship. The University of Queensland will disclose the information you provide to Boeing for the stated purposes. The University will not otherwise disclose the information to a third party without your consent, unless such disclosure is authorised or required by law. For further information, please refer to the University’s Privacy Management Policy.