Senior Technical Assistant

🇺🇸 Houston, TX

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Operations

🗓️ May 27th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

University of Houston is hiring a Senior Technical Assistant. The role involves performing research on robotics and maintaining robots under the guidance of a PhD student or Postdoc, focusing on building and testing robotic drones. The candidate will assist with preparing research results for presentations, monitoring test subjects, data entry, and ensuring adherence to procedures.

Highlights

Main responsibilities include research on robotics and maintenance of robotic drones.
Proficiency in programming, CAD design, and 3D prototyping required.
Offers a salary commensurate with experience and education.
Bachelor's Degree with no required experience accepted; experience can substitute for education.
Experience working on robot publications and in a research lab is beneficial.

Senior Technical Assistant Full Description

| Department: Electrical Engineering
| Salary: Commensurate with Experience/Education
| Description: Provides assistance and expertise in various areas of research such as preparation of results for presentation, monitoring test subjects, gathering and entering data, ensuring adherence to procedures, and basic analyses of data.

1. Ensures experiments are performed according to specifications.
2. May make practical recommendations to changes in procedures as appropriate.
3. Applies advanced skills.
4. Varied and Non standardized duties.
5. Performs advanced functions and copes independently with new or complex situations.
6. Receives minimal supervision. May orient, guide and/or train employees.

Experience will be considered in lieu of education.

MQ: Bachelor's Degree with 0 years of experience.
| All positions at the University of Houston-System are security sensitive and will require a criminal history check. The University of Houston System and its universities are an Equal Opportunity Institution.