Job Description / Summary of Duties
Title: Research Psychologist
The ideal candidate will have a background in cognitive science, linguistics, speech perception, and/or a related field, and will draw from this knowledge to contribute to, and expand upon, a program of research focused on human communication. The candidate will help to identify the gaps in our understanding of human communication, particularly as it occurs within the context of the natural stressors inherent in complex operational environments (e.g., noise, time constraints, high workload, and degraded communication signals). The candidate will develop behavioral research projects to address these knowledge gaps, informed by a strong knowledge of the relevant literature and an acquired understanding of real-world, U.S. Air Force relevant, communication task environments. Of particular interest will be research focusing on the characteristics of effective communication, the identification of processes employed for overcoming the barriers to effective communication, and the identification of indices of communication breakdown. Further research will focus on how humans can manage multiple streams of communication simultaneously. The candidate will be expected to design critical experiments, as well as collect, analyze, and report results to the scientific community in general, and to relevant DoD communities, in particular. Importantly, the candidate will use results from these research efforts to inform the design of displays, and communication management systems, and to develop interfaces supporting natural human-machine communication.
Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain a Secret clearance
Citizenship requirement: Must be U.S. citizen
Specific Job Qualifications
Experiences in the following preferred:
- The development of spoken language technologies for dialog system development supporting multi-modal communication.
- Experimental design and s/w development for data collection, analysis, speech interface and persistent auditory display development
Salary Range
DR-II
Educational Requirement
PhD in any of the following: cognitive science, linguistics (sociolinguistics, dialectology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, historical-comparative linguistics, or applied linguistics), speech perception, or a related field with an emphasis on human-human and/or human-machine communication.
Skills (both required and desirable)