Spatial Computing and Artificial Intelligence Engineer (KTP Associate)

Duties & Responsibilities

The duties of the post will include:

• Using 3D spatial cameras for modelling railway station infrastructures / facilities to visualise passenger routes and identify objects, assets and areas posing accessibility issues for customers.
• Develop digital 3D mapping tools for capturing passenger routes based on captured video, dense point cloud, spatial and localisation data/processes for generating interactive 3D video guides / walkthrough of railway stations
• Develop and optimise realistic 3D Gaussian Splat models of railway stations / assets from captured 2D photos and videos, ensuring visual quality, spatial accuracy, performance across diverse computationally constraint hardware platforms and interfaces
• Apply state of the art machine learning models for object detection, scene segmentation with the integration of sensor data on operational / usage patterns to identify accessibility issues and risks to customers
• Integrate conversational AI into assistive digital applications for generating personalised, location aware interactive immersive visual walk throughs and accessible route suggestions based on customers’ needs and circumstances.
• Building 3D visualisations for augmented / virtual reality-based interfaces
• Working both independently and as part of a team as both a project manager and a lead researcher
• Balancing innovation with practical implementation
• Working collaboratively with operational staff, senior management, software teams and external rail stakeholders
• Embedding technology and upskilling company staff
• Participating in academic and/or industrial conferences and other events to disseminate research outcomes
• Preparation of academic papers and patent applications

These duties are a guide to the work that the post holder will initially be required to undertake. They may be changed from time to time to meet changing circumstances.

Benefits

As a KTP Associate, the post will offer the following benefits:

• A personal development budget of £5,500 (exclusive of salary).
• Management training and mentoring by an Innovate UK KTP Adviser.
• An interesting and challenging role, with exposure to a variety of stakeholders.
• Full access to university resources to complete the project.
• World-leading Academic and Company project supervision, with project support by a dedicated, sector leading KTP Office.

For the ‘Person Specification’ (qualifications / training, experience / knowledge, skills / abilities, other) details please refer to the Job Pack REQ10223.

The University of Essex in partnership with Railscape Limited offers an exciting opportunity to a graduate with the relevant skills and knowledge to develop an intelligent 3D visualisation platform that provides personalised, accessibility-aware 3D walkthroughs of rail stations and other major infrastructure sites using advanced spatial computing and AI.