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Post-Doc Rail Center for Research Enhancing Short-line Transportation (Rail CREST)

Penn State Altoona💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-04 → 2026-07-30

Core

Lead research in rail infrastructure sensing, structural health monitoring, and intelligent transportation systems for short-line railroads.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist / Post-Doc

Builds

Rail infrastructure monitoring solutions, sensing technologies, and data analytics platforms

Domain

Transportation / Civil Engineering / Structural Health Monitoring

Deliverable

production ML models | research | infrastructure

Required skills

rail infrastructure expertise, structural health monitoring, sensor networks, machine learning, AI applications, multi-institutional project coordination, field instrumentation management

Preferred skills

railroad operations experience, federal research program experience, technology transfer

Technologies

sensor networks, machine learning, AI, instrumentation systems

Responsibilities

Coordinate research across partner universities, lead projects on rail sensing and data analytics, manage field deployments and lab testing, supervise research staff and students, assist with research proposals and technology transfer

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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