Organisation/Company Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)- BarcelonaTECH Research Field Engineering » Electronic engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Research Support Positions Country Spain Application Deadline 10 Nov 2025 - 23:00 (Europe/Madrid) Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 17 Nov 2025 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? NextGenerationEU Reference Number Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description
Mission:
Develop, integrate and deploy robotic systems for healthcare applications in real environments.
Functions to be developed:
- Program and deploy interaction and perception models for context understanding on ROS-based platforms (ROS1 and ROS2), integrating perception, control and high‑level logic.
- Contribute to system‑level architecture as well as practical testing.
- Validate robots in the smart home environment of our laboratory.
- C/C++, Python, MatLab.
Specific Requirements
Educational Requirements:
- AI solutions focused on real‑time perception.
- AI models for robotic perception: object and anomaly detection.
- Machine Learning Workflow Optimization: ML.
- Computer vision algorithms.
Professional Experience:
- In teleexistence robots for collaboration in the retail sector.
- Managing uncertainty in the relationship between perception and action.
- Safe navigation in open and complex business environments.
- Experience in functions similar to those described will be valued, specifically in the development of research activities, both in the university and industrial environment.
Languages CATALAN Level Basic
Languages ENGLISH Level Good
Languages SPANISH Level Good
Research Field Engineering » Electronic engineering Years of Research Experience 1 - 4
Additional Information
Eligibility criteria
All the candidates who cannot prove the required academic degree will be immediately withdrawn from the selection process.
The CVs will be assessed according the following general criteria:
- The maximum score for the candidates who accomplish all the eligibility criteria stated in the job offer will be 10 points.
- Threshold: 5 points.
- The maximum score (10 points) will be distributed as follows:
- 1 point for required speciality.
- 2 points for required academic training.
- 2 points for technic competences.
- 1 point for organisational competences.
- 3 points for professional experience.
- 1 point for any aspect of the candidate’s professional profile to be determined as specially relevant by the Selection committee.
If the selection committee decide to include a personal interview as additional step of the selection process, only the candidates scored 5 or above for their CV will be retained for the interview step.
The interview will be assessed according the following criteria:
- Threshold: 3 points.
- The maximum score will be distributed according the following criteria:
- 2 points for adequacy to functional competences of the job.
- 2 points for adequacy of professional experience.
- 1 point for any aspect of the candidate’s professional profile to be determined as especially relevant by the Selection committee.
The eligible candidates will be ranked from highest to lowest score, being this the selection criteria.
Selection process
The planned selection process is as follows:
- The members of the selection committee will decide for each case what the selection process will be, if an assessment is made only for the curriculum vitae or any other procedure is planned: interview, tests, etc …
- Each phase of the selection process will be reported on the website where the offer is published. If applicable, indicate your request.
- Finally, the name of the person selected will be published on the same website where the offer is published.
Work Location(s)
Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics, CSIC-UPC Country Spain State/Province Barcelona City Barcelona Postal Code 08028 Street Pau Gargallo, 14 Geofield
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