The Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security ARLIS based at the University of Maryland College Park was established in 2018 under the auspices of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence USDI to be a strategic asset for research and development in social systems autonomy and augmentation and advanced computing One of only 14 designated Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Centers UARCs in the nation and the only UARC focused on supporting the intelligence community ARLIS conducts both unclassified and classified research spanning from basic to applied system development and works to serve the US Government as an independent and objective trusted agent ARLIS research is driven by a cadre of research scientists and engineers faculty research specialists and project engineers further supported by senior University of Maryland faculty and a consortium of university partners Research is typically conducted through teams of eg social scientists computer scientists psychologists linguists cognitive neuroscientists applied mathematicians political scientists policy analysts and systems engineers Our Research Scientists are primarily involved in research with a focus on creating knowledge and carry the title of Assistant Associate or Full Research Scientist The research part of promotionpackage resembles that of tenure track faculty in publications securing funding etc albeit at a somewhat reduced scale Career experience in industry andor governmentmilitary may be an important component in the appointment package ARLIS seeks research scientists in the Assistant Associate and full ranks to commit effort on its projects Exceptional candidates in all areas related to the ARLISs current research trajectories will be given serious consideration particularly those with experience in multiple areas These include the following Psychological and brain sciences including neuroscience human cognition individual differences and social psychology Social influence and disinformation detection and mitigation of insider threat industrialorganizational psychology and teamwork and group dynamics Computational social science including agent based modeling and simulation social media analysis behavioral economics game theory predictive modeling Human machine interface to include augmented and virtual reality ARVR human systems integration and augmenting human performance Artificial intelligence including computer vision natural language processing human language technologies multimodal sense making and other AIML based systems Data science data creationcuration data fusion visualization analytics and decision support Industrial security including supply chain illumination and risk assessment Software engineering staticdynamic software analysis formal methods applied mathematics trusted AI metric development testbed design and systems verification and validation This position represents a pipeline to support emerging and future work at ARLIS Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis If you are looking for more immediate employment please review our other job postings at ARLIS that align to your skills and capabilities and support current needs that we are seeking to fill immediately