Postdoc: Climate-Resilient Power Systems & MARL

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 64,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional training

Mentoring from UVA faculty across disc

Research funds $5,000/year

Job summary

The University of Virginia’s Environmental Institute invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance a Climate and Power Systems project. You will collaborate with faculty mentors and researchers specializing in machine learning, resilient infrastructure, and optimization to study joint expansion, transition, and resilience planning of power systems under climate uncertainty.

The position provides two years of mentorship, professional training, and access to computational

Qualifications

• PhD in power systems, ML, optimization or related field.
• Experience with interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Strong written and oral communication; ability to engage industry partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop a robust multi-agent RL framework for climate-aware power system planning.
• Model power system resilience under non-stationary climate uncertainty.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and industry partners to incorporate real-world constraints.

Skills

Power systems

Machine learning

Optimization

Reinforcement learning

Multi-agent systems

Communication skills

Education

PhD in a related field

Job description

The University of Virginia’s Environmental Institute invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to advance a Climate and Power Systems project. You will collaborate with faculty mentors and researchers specializing in machine learning, resilient infrastructure, and optimization to study joint expansion, transition, and resilience planning of power systems under climate uncertainty.

The position provides two years of mentorship, professional training, and access to computational