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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Translational AI Center (TrAC)
Ames, IA · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
PythonCloud PlatformsMachine LearningData ScienceLLMsRAGAgentic AICybersecurityDetection EngineeringHRMechanical DesignResearchCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- The position will involve close collaboration with interdisciplinary teams spanning artificial intelligence, engineering, agriculture, plant and animal sciences, and cybersecurity.
- Expected activities include publishing high-impact research, mentoring graduate students, contributing to research proposals, and supporting the development of externally funded, multi-institutional projects.
Responsibilities
- The successful candidate will develop large-scale, trustworthy agentic AI frameworks for agricultural security applications, with an emphasis on detecting, understanding, and responding to biological threats.
Requirements
- Demonstrated research experience with large language models, generative AI, agentic AI, or related foundation model technologies.
Nice to have
- Research experience in uncertainty quantification, model calibration, confidence estimation, hallucination detection, or reliability assessment for large language models and agentic AI systems.
- Experience mentoring graduate or undergraduate students in research settings.
- Experience contributing to federal research proposals, sponsored research applications, and collaborative project reports.
- Familiarity with scalable computing environments, cloud platforms, high-performance computing, distributed AI systems, or large-scale data pipelines.
- Evidence of open-source software development, reproducible research practices, and successful interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Demonstrated record of scholarly productivity, including publications in reputable peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.
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Skills
- The center fosters collaborative, interdisciplinary research while emphasizing trustworthy, scalable, and socially responsible AI solutions.
Compensation
- Number of Months Employed Per Year:
Benefits
- Retirement benefits including defined benefit and defined contribution plans
- Generous vacation, holiday, and sick time and leave plans
- Life insurance and long-term disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Various voluntary benefits and discounts
- Wellbeing program
- The scholar will also contribute to TrAC's education and workforce development mission by developing and delivering AI workshops, tutorials, and microcredential programs.
Equal opportunity
- Iowa State University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, ethnicity, religion, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, sex, marital status, disability, or status as a U.S. Veteran.
- Inquiries regarding non-discrimination policies may be directed to Office of Equal Opportunity, 2680 Beardshear Hall, 515 Morrill Road, Ames, Iowa 50011, Tel.
- 515-294-7612, email eooffice@iastate.edu.
- General ISU compensation information can be found on the University Human Resources website.
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