Post-Doctoral Associate – Edge AI & Embodied AI Research

About the role

The eBRAIN Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi seeks a Post‑Doctoral Associate to lead research and development of next‑generation Edge‑AI and Embodied‑AI systems, focusing on tiny‑LLMs, tiny‑VLMs, agentic AI, and robust generative AI that address hallucination, safety, and security challenges.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, optimize, prototype and test innovative software and hardware solutions for high‑performance, energy‑efficient AI systems.
• Generate intellectual property through patents and publish high‑quality papers in top‑tier ML/AI, robotics and systems conferences.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers and students to develop full‑system prototypes for real‑world applications such as autonomous vehicles, healthcare, and smart environments.

Required profile

• PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong track record of practical AI/ML system development and publications at top venues.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving and communication skills with high motivation for world‑class research.

Required skills

• Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, Large Language Models, Vision‑Language Models, Retrieval‑Augmented Generation.
• Agentic AI frameworks, tinyML, robust/secure computing, privacy‑preserving ML, ML security.
• Proficiency with PyTorch, TensorFlow and MLOps tools.

What we offer

• Very competitive tax‑free salary with generous housing allowance and medical insurance.
• Annual home‑leave allowance, dependent private‑school fee support, and dedicated funds for travel, computing and publications.
• Access to world‑class research facilities and a collaborative international research environment.