University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Notre Dame, IN, United States · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$60k-$742kDetected 6 days ago
PythonMachine LearningData AnalysisData EngineeringData ScienceNLPLLMsStatisticsScientific WritingResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationRemote Sensing

About the role

  • The University of Notre Dame is more than a workplace!
  • Rooted in a tradition of excellence and inspired by our Catholic character, Notre Dame is committed to fostering an environment of care that nurtures the whole person-mind, body, and spirit.
  • Here, you will find a deep sense of belonging, a culture that prioritizes well-being, and the opportunity to grow your career while being a force for good in the world.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with faculty to design, implement, and support sustainability-related research projects requiring advanced data analytics.
  • Develop and maintain a centralized platform for the Pan-Amazon Evidence and Action Hub that hosts diverse and harmonized sustainability-related datasets, including environmental, socioeconomic, cultural, and geospatial data.
  • Build tools and interfaces (APIs, catalogs, dashboards, or reproducible workflows) that make Hub data discoverable and usable by faculty, students, and partner organizations with varying technical capacity.
  • Explore applications of AI methods, including large language models and natural language processing, for extracting structured information from unstructured sources(e.g. reports, policy documents, gray literature, or citizen science observations),
  • Co-author and support high-impact, interdisciplinary research publications in leading sustainability and environmental science journals.
  • The Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative is Notre Dame's University-wide effort to build a sustainable future where people and nature flourish together.
  • Strong data engineering skills in Python and/or R, preferably in building reusable data pipelines rather than one-off analysis scripts.
  • The University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration.

Requirements

  • Expertise in geospatial data, including working across raster and vector formats, coordinate reference systems, and spatial aggregation or interpolation across mismatched administrative and ecological units.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate technical infrastructure decisions for collaborators from a wide range of disciplines.

Compensation

  • $60k-$742k

Benefits

  • Apply advanced statistical, machine learning, and AI techniques to analyze complex datasets and uncover actionable insights.
  • An interest or experience in using machine learning or AI tools with environmental or socioeconomic data

Company info

  • We are a vibrant, mission-driven community where every employee is valued and supported.
  • Whether contributing to world-class research, shaping the student experience, or supporting the University's mission in other ways, you will be part of a dedicated team working to make a meaningful impact on campus and beyond.
  • At Notre Dame, your work matters, and so do you!
  • This posting is for visibility purposes only.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or age in employment.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • The hub will systematically synthesize and harmonize remote sensing, survey, census, and citizen science data to support analyses of issues for action in partnership with local communities and Indigenous Peoples in the A
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