Postdoc: Transportation Digital Twins & HPC

NLR; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 77,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Pension benefits

403(b) Savings Plan with employer

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

NLR invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Transportation Digital Twins and High-Performance Simulation. The role focuses on developing traffic digital twins, large-scale simulations, and scalable HPC workflows to study connected and automated vehicle operations and their mobility impacts.

The candidate will conduct independent research, collaborate with NLR scientists and external partners, and contribute to publications and reports while advancing energy and transportation

Qualifications

• Must be a recent PhD graduate within the last three years.
• Ph.D. in a relevant engineering, computing, or mathematical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Develop, calibrate, and validate traffic digital twin and co-simulation models.
• Design and evaluate vehicle and traffic signal control strategies using optimization or machine learning.
• Build and optimize scalable HPC workflows for large-scale simulation and scenario studies.
• Integrate traffic, vehicle, communication, and energy models into reproducible research tools.
• Analyze results and communicate findings through publications, reports, and presentations.

Skills

Independent research

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Communicating results

Education

PhD in engineering/computing/math

Tools

Python

C/C++

MATLAB

Job description

NLR invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Transportation Digital Twins and High-Performance Simulation. The role focuses on developing traffic digital twins, large-scale simulations, and scalable HPC workflows to study connected and automated vehicle operations and their mobility impacts.

The candidate will conduct independent research, collaborate with NLR scientists and external partners, and contribute to publications and reports while advancing energy and transportation