PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Control Systems in United States

The University of Texas at Dallas is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for experimental power electronics and power conversion systems at the High Power Density Electronics Center in Richardson, Texas. The researcher will support existing projects and help develop new projects and proposals involving power electronics circuits and converters for data centers, electrical grids, and energy-storage applications. The work combines new hardware architectures with intelligent control strategies for hi...

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Flight Sciences Branch is seeking researchers to contribute to ongoing work in aeroballistics and the control of guided and unguided Army munitions. The opening is centered on flight dynamics and control, with emphasis on understanding how munitions respond to aerodynamic forces and moments and how those responses can be shaped to improve range, accuracy, and survivability in flight. The research scope spans both unguided and guided flight. On the unguided sid...

This opportunity is centered on limbed robotics and the development of dynamic whole-body mobility and manipulation for autonomous robot platforms. The work aims to improve robust autonomous behaviors for agile traversal and manipulation in complex environments, with emphasis on how robots move, balance, and interact with their surroundings. The project uses physics-based, multi-body simulation to support the design of robot behaviors and to build understanding of the dynamics governing the syst...

This research opportunity at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory focuses on the control of structurally adaptive small unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The project is centered on enabling unusual and highly maneuverable flight behaviors for Army-relevant small aircraft operating in congested, low-altitude environments. The work addresses the control challenges created by compliant and adaptive structures designed for complex behaviors such as high-speed object avoidance, perching, and soaring. A m...

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory is recruiting a scientist/engineer for research in distributed systems state estimation within the Electronics for Sense and Control effort. The project sits at the intersection of navigation and localization , small-scale autonomous systems , and human physiological state monitoring , with the expectation that the researcher will contribute across this interconnected research space. The work emphasizes the development of novel methods for distributed state es...

The Lehigh University Plasma Control Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to advance control systems, artificial intelligence, and scientific machine learning for fusion energy . The role sits within the Lehigh University Plasma Control Group (LU-PCG) , directed by Professors Eugenio Schuster and Tariq Rafiq , and centers on research for magnetically confined fusion plasmas in tokamaks. The postdoc will contribute to a program that combines theory-based modeling, predictive simulation...

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Mississippi is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Robotics and AI to join Dr. Xiaopeng Zhao’s research group. The position centers on robotics and autonomous systems with a strong emphasis on turning AI-enabled robots into systems that can be deployed and trusted in the real world. The research scope is broad and includes manipulation, mobile and legged robots, autonomous navigation, perception and computer vision, motion...

This postdoctoral fellowship at DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory focuses on machine learning for state estimation and decision propagation in highly heterogeneous environments where humans are coupled to machine decision agents. The project is framed around a Network of Networks research program and aims to develop novel theories, validation experiments, and hardware implementations for human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning , transfer learning , and the transfer of learned behavior across hete...

California Institute of Technology’s Computing + Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Department offers an interdisciplinary postdoctoral environment spanning Computer Science , Applied Mathematics , Communication & Networks , and Control & Systems . The program typically hosts more than 20 postdoctoral scholars and is supported through individual faculty, research groups, and cross-cutting research centers. The posting brings together applications for several CMS postdoctoral fellowship programs, includ...