PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Robotics in United States

Arizona State University, in partnership with Kepler College in Rwanda, is offering 50 fully funded master's opportunities through the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program. The programmes focus on technology and innovation, including Business Analytics, Computer Science, Sustainable Engineering, Global Technology and Development, Information Technology, and User Experience. The ASU Online degrees are completed while living in Kigali, Rwanda. The scholarship is designed for African citizens age...

Mateo Daniel Roig Greidanus, Assistant Professor at Kansas State University, is recruiting two PhD students to join the REACT (Resilient Energy and Advanced Converter Technologies) Power Electronics Laboratory. The preferred start is Summer or Fall 2027. The research focuses on two directions: physics-based modeling and Edge AI for cyber-resilient power electronics, and advanced control and optimization of power-electronic systems. Projects may involve converter-level digital twins, physics-info...

The University of Texas at Austin is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in mRNA lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and mechanical engineering within the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering. Based in Austin, Texas, the fellow will lead research connecting the internal structure of mRNA lipid nanoparticles with biological performance and will establish design principles for improved therapeutic delivery. Research activities include LNP assembly and characterizat...

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, United States, is hiring a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The project investigates agentic marketplaces, where autonomous AI agents negotiate, transact, and coordinate with people and other agents on behalf of users and businesses. The researcher will develop theoretical and empirical methods to study emergent strategic behavior, collusion, information leakage, manipulation, market effi...

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate for a collaborative, co-mentored program in the Vaziri-Bowser laboratories. The postdoctoral researcher will investigate fundamental mechanisms of the DNA damage response, cell-cycle regulation, genome maintenance, and genome stability , with implications for cancer biology, carcinogenesis, and therapeutic response. The role offers dual ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), United States , is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Learning Systems Group within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division. The project focuses on Generative AI, large language models (LLMs), multi-agent systems, and human-in-the-loop AI for laboratory operations and safety. The researcher will develop and evaluate generative AI architectures, agentic workflows, instruction-tuned LLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) s...

Baylor University’s Minich Lab in the Department of Biology is recruiting 2–3 fully funded PhD students in microbial ecology and genomics. Potential thesis projects include the gut microbiome and childhood undernutrition , built environment microbiomes , and fish mucosal ecology . These projects offer opportunities to work across biology, microbial genomics, public health, environmental science, and computational science. Applicants should have a background in biology, computational science, pub...

The University of Utah is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Neuromechanics & Applied Locomotion Laboratory in the Department of Health & Kinesiology in Salt Lake City, United States. The position focuses on balance control, wearable sensors, mobility monitoring, physical therapy rehabilitation, neurological disorders, and locomotor control. The proposed research will use wearable sensors for continuous monitoring of mobility, with opportunities to collaborate on stu...

The National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Vision Machine Learning for its Golden, Colorado location. The researcher will work at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, large-scale data analytics, remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and photovoltaic (PV) system performance. The project focuses on understanding how the U.S. photovoltaic fleet changes over time. Responsibilities include developing and validating computer-vision and machine-...