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Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
Onsite
The Opportunity
The Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach campus invites applications for a Research Scientist to support and lead research in autonomy, safe machine learning, and cyber-physical systems. The position will work closely with the principal investigator, graduate students, and collaborators on funded and proposed projects involving autonomous systems, advanced air mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles, modeling and simulation, verification and validation, cybersecurity, and decision-making under uncertainty.
This is an opportunity to contribute to the Flexible & Intelligent Complex Systems Research Group through research design, prototype development, simulation-based evaluation, scholarly publication, proposal development, and student mentoring. The successful candidate will deepen expertise in one or more areas relevant to the group while helping build research programs that create meaningful opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
Key Responsibilities
About us
For over 100 years, Embry-Riddle has been the world's leading aviation and aerospace university, educating more than 30,000 students across residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, as well as through a global network of Worldwide locations and online programs. With more than 165,000 alumni around the world, our impact reaches every corner of the aerospace, aviation, defense and technology industries.
Today, our faculty, researchers and professional staff are advancing innovation across aviation, space, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems and next-generation engineering. Working alongside industry leaders, government agencies and innovators, they are solving real-world challenges and shaping the technologies that will define tomorrow.
Whether you are an educator, researcher, administrator, technologist or industry professional, your work at Embry-Riddle will contribute to something bigger than a job. Join a community driven by discovery, purpose and excellence—and help shape the future of aerospace.
Perks Await You at Embry-Riddle!
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Application process/requirements
Review of applications will begin in November 2026 and will continue until the position is filled.
To submit your application for this opportunity, please visit the Embry-Riddle Career Site and search for requisition number R312246. Please attach all relevant materials to your application when you apply online. Complete submissions include:
Current Embry-Riddle employees: Please apply directly through the ERAU Employee Hub Central application within Workday.
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