Research Associate, Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory
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The Research Associate will carry out applied robotics research for extreme environments, with applications in defense, space, nuclear, and oil and gas industries. The work focuses on advancing autonomous systems in uncertain environments to reduce operator burden and improve task efficiency and safe operation. The role also involves obtaining research funding, maintaining laboratory equipment and software repositories, supervising and educating researchers, and supporting publications.
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Full job description
Carry out research in the area of applied robotics for use in extreme environments, particularly in the defense, space, nuclear, and oil and gas industries. Research areas of particular interest include autonomy, human-machine interfaces, mobile manipulation, control, and hardware/sensor integration. The high-level goals focus on advancing the systems autonomous capabilities in uncertain environments to reduce the burden on the operator and improve task efficiency and safe operation.Serve as co-principal investigator or senior research personnel to obtain research funding from federal agencies and industry.Help maintain laboratory equipment and groups software repositories.Supervise and educate graduate students and postdoctoral researchers as well as support publication efforts related to the programs research.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,052 open Research Associate jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$70–85K/yr272 salary ranges
- US median$26–32/hr175 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 189 open Research Associate jobs in Texas and 1,052 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)106 open
- Texas A&M University System29 open
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON13 open
- Experience
- Research Associate postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (275 postings).
- Education
- 580 of the 1,052 open Research Associate jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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