AI and Geospatial Developer for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) at the University of Chicago invites applications for a one-year funded position focused on developing Geospatial AI applications for archaeology, history, and cultural heritage.

Requirements

• Set up and configure geospatial AI/MLOps pipelines using existing libraries and frameworks, ensuring reproducibility and smooth deployment.
• Build and manage the infrastructure ecosystem (cloud and/or on-prem) to support geospatial remote sensing data processing.
• Implement and maintain remote sensing workflows, including data handling, processing, and basic results visualization and monitoring with standard open source tools.
• Effectively collaborate in a cross-disciplinary environment with archaeologists, geographers, historians, data scientists and computational engineers.
• Maintain excellent documentation to ensure reproducibility of workflows.
• Evaluates past and present technologies to help develop new tools.
• Ensures all the new tools have been through quality control reviews.
• Participates in the product development life cycle, providing professional assistance to the design of front-end applications and database systems back-end schema.
• Analyzes high-level system specifications and makes sure that all application development standards are met.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off