About the Position:

The Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) is looking for an Adaptive Building Systems Post-Doctoral Fellow to join its Building Energy Technology Group. We see numerous opportunities to take advantage of long-term trends toward pervasive in-home sensing, computing, and communications to reduce building energy consumption while enhancing peoples’ lives. In particular, this position will focus on developing, implementing, and evaluating the effectiveness of different combinations of sensors, data, and controls to enable new energy efficiency and demand-response capabilities in buildings. We expect that this work will leverage Fraunhofer’s prior development of the FRESH platform – see http://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/2014/data/papers/11-763.pdf .

We are seeking a creative systems-level engineer or scientist with the confidence to envision the future and the hands-on technical chops to develop and prototype real-world solutions. You'll be an important contributor to a dynamic, interdisciplinary Energy Management & Behavior team that includes electronics, behavioral science, data acquisition, data analytics, and energy systems experts with a shared commitment to excellence, combined with a passion for sustainable energy technology. You will also closely collaborate with researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with similar technical interests.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Implement and enhance state-of-the-art and emerging sensing and control technologies in the built environment
• Acquire data from deployments in the built environment and evaluate the real-world effectiveness of the controls, diagnostics, and analytics approaches implemented
• Collaborate on the development novel data analytics to infer key energy-related variables in buildings, i.e., occupancy, activities, energy efficiency and demand-response potentials, etc.
• Work with the team on industry- and government-funded research projects
• Work with the team to expand the research vision and develop new interdisciplinary projects to develop and evaluate innovative, human-centric energy-saving technologies and systems
• Present research at conferences and industry events
• Compose technical papers and final reports

Background and Education:

The ideal candidate will have the following experience and education:

• Demonstrated hands-on excellence in performing systems-level experimental research and development in a relevant field, such as responsive environments, adaptive buildings, context-aware control, in-home 
• Superior expertise in developing, deploying, and testing prototype control, sensing, data acquisition, and/or feedback systems in the built environment
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills 
• Publication track record in a relevant field
• Willingness to work concurrently on multiple research projects
• Ph.D. in a relevant field, such as Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Controls, etc.

Fraunhofer USA, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer of Individuals with disabilities, protected veterans and is a federal contractor.

About the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE)

The Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit applied research and development laboratory dedicated to fostering economic development through the commercialization of clean energy technologies for the benefit of society. With a focus in building energy technologies, solar photovoltaics, distributed electrical energy systems, start-up assistance, and technical validation, Fraunhofer CSE engages in collaborative research with private companies, government entities, and academic institutions. Fraunhofer CSE is a subsidiary of Fraunhofer USA and affiliated with Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest contract R&D organization.