Research Scientist- Open Rank (Working Title: Research Assistant Professor inArtificial Intelligence)

Georgia Tech; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia Tech, located in Atlanta, GA, seeks a Research Scientist/Engineer to lead cutting-edge AI research and lab operations in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The role emphasizes foundation models, world models, and scalable AI systems, with mentorship of PhD students and collaboration with affiliates.

The candidate will drive research direction, manage compute infrastructure, and engage with industry partners, academia, and government partners to advance Georgia Tech's AI

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, or a closely related field with emphasis on AI or large-scale model development.
• Strong research record in foundation models, world models, representation learning, multimodal AI, distributed training, or agentic systems.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale model training using GPUs/TPUs, distributed systems, deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow), and data pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring students or leading technical AI teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute advanced research programs in large-scale AI, including foundation model architectures, multimodal learning, world models, agentic systems, and self-supervised learning at scale.
• Design and evaluate training algorithms, model architectures, and scalable pipelines for language, vision, audio, robotics, and multi-agent environments.
• Develop GPU-, TPU-, and cluster-optimized training frameworks and inference-time optimization pipelines; publish high-impact papers and release open-source tools.
• Oversee daily operations of the AI research lab, including GPU clusters, storage, distributed training stacks, data governance, and uptime.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Doctoral degree

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

Location

Atlanta, GA

Full/Part TimeFull-Time

Regular/TemporaryRegular

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:1. Students are our top priority.2. We strive for excellence.3. We thrive on diversity.4. We celebrate collaboration.5. We champion innovation.6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.7. We nurture the well-being of our community.8. We act ethically.9. We are responsible stewards.

Department Information

About the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the largest producers of electrical engineers and computer engineers in the United States. Almost 2,600 students are enrolled in the School's graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 801 degrees were awarded. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top five of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

In addition to the main campus in Atlanta, Georgia, ECE also has permanent operations at Georgia Tech-Lorraine in France. Graduate students who spend at least one semester each at of the Georgia Tech locations (Atlanta, Lorraine, on two continents, North America and Europe) can earn the Georgia Tech Global Engineering Immersion Program (GEIP) Certificate when they receive the Georgia Tech M.S. degree.

Over 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research and education: bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electrical energy, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, nanotechnology, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design: and the School is either home to or a key player in almost 20 research centers and consortia.

ECE is key to Georgia Tech's growing reputation as an internationally recognized educational and research and development university. ECE is firmly committed to sustaining excellence in traditional areas of strength and venturing into burgeoning areas of opportunity.

Job Summary

The Signal Lab in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech is seeking a Research Scientist to lead and advance cutting-edge research in Artificial Intelligence. The role will involve laboratory management, project oversight, and business development activities to name a few.

Responsibilities

1. Research Leadership in Foundation Models, World Models, and Frontier AI

• Lead and execute advanced research programs in large-scale AI, including foundation model architectures, multimodal representation learning, world models, agentic systems, and self-supervised learning at scale.
• Design and evaluate new training algorithms, model architectures, and scalable pipelines for language, vision, audio, robotics, simulation, and multi-agent environments.
• Develop GPU-, TPU-, and cluster-optimized training frameworks, distributed training systems, and inference-time optimization pipelines for next-generation AI models.
• Publish high-impact papers in top AI/ML venues, release open-source tools, and contribute to Georgia Tech's AI research leadership and national strategic priorities.

2. Lab Management and AI Compute Infrastructure Operations

• Oversee daily operations of the AI research lab, including GPU clusters, high-performance storage, distributed training stacks, and data governance frameworks.
• Manage, maintain, and expand high-performance compute infrastructure: multi-node GPU clusters, distributed data loaders, RL/simulation environments, and model evaluation frameworks.
• Ensure safety, compliance, documentation, model governance, data integrity, and continuous uptime of compute and AI assets.
• Build automated pipelines for model training, experiment reproducibility, dataset generation, benchmarking, and large-scale evaluation.

3. Affiliate Engagement, Business Development, and Partnerships

• Engage, onboard, and support affiliate companies participating in the AI and foundation model research program.
• Serve as a technical liaison for affiliates across AI labs, cloud providers, robotics companies, semiconductor partners, government agencies, and enterprise AI users.
• Define joint research thrusts, scoping documents, datasets, deliverables, evaluation protocols, and IP structures for partner organizations.
• Coordinate demos, campus visits, model showcases, and affiliate meetings to support collaboration and knowledge transfer.

4. Project Management and PhD Mentorship

• Mentor PhD students, postdocs, and research engineers working on foundation models, world models, agentic systems, and large-scale representation learning.
• Manage multi-PI, multi-institution, and affiliate-funded AI research efforts, ensuring timely execution, publications, deliverables, reporting, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Provide technical direction on model design, dataset creation, training strategies, evaluation, experiment planning, scheduling, milestones, and results dissemination.

Required Qualifications

Research Scientist/Engineer I

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related area.

Research Scientist/Engineer II

• A Master's degree and three (3) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of that degree,
• A Master's degree and five (5) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a Bachelor's degree, or
• A Doctoral degree.

Senior Research Scientist/Engineer

• A Master's degree and seven (7) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of that degree,
• A Master's degree and nine (9) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a Bachelor's degree, or
• A Doctoral degree and four (4) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, or a closely related field with emphasis on AI or large-scale model development.
• Strong research record in foundation models, world models, representation learning, multimodal AI, distributed training, or agentic systems.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale model training using GPUs/TPUs, distributed systems, deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow), and data pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring students or leading technical AI teams.
• Strong communication and presentation skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Contact Information

Linda Dillon, Lucretia Allen or Shalonda Williams at

USG Core Values

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at policymanual/section6/C2653.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

Other Information

This is not a supervisory position. This position does not have any financial responsibilities. This position will not be required to drive. This role is not considered a position of trust. This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card). This position will not travel. This position does not require security clearance.

Background Check

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