Postdoctoral Fellow: Real-Time Urban Digital Twin Visualization

Florida Atlantic University; Boca Raton (FL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Florida Atlantic University seeks a highly computational Postdoctoral Fellow to design and implement real-time, photorealistic digital twin environments within the Ubicquia Innovation Center for Intelligent Infrastructure (UICII) in Boca Raton.

This 12-month appointment may renew contingent on performance and funding; work focuses on real-time rendering, engine-level architecture, and scalable interactive systems for urban-scale environments using Unreal Engine or Unity.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Visual Computing, Interactive Media, or related field.
• Strong C++ and/or C# programming expertise.
• Demonstrated experience building complex environments in Unreal or Unity.
• Deep understanding of real-time rendering architectures and performance optimization.
• Experience designing scalable interactive systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement large-scale, real-time digital twin environments.
• Design rendering pipelines for photorealistic urban scenes at campus and district scale.
• Develop interactive systems using Unreal Engine or Unity (final platform selection is open).
• Integrate live infrastructure telemetry into real-time visualization environments.
• Optimize scene graphs, memory management, asset streaming, and runtime performance.
• Contribute to research proposals and peer-reviewed publications.

Skills

C++

C#

Unreal Engine

Unity

Real-time rendering

Distributed systems

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Unreal Engine

Unity

Job description

Florida Atlantic University seeks a highly computational Postdoctoral Fellow to design and implement real-time, photorealistic digital twin environments within the Ubicquia Innovation Center for Intelligent Infrastructure (UICII) in Boca Raton.

This 12-month appointment may renew contingent on performance and funding; work focuses on real-time rendering, engine-level architecture, and scalable interactive systems for urban-scale environments using Unreal Engine or Unity.