Bring a rigorous academic perspective to a real personal-computing problem while retaining a clearly defined university role.
Not open yet: Research program
This work starts when that stage arrives, so there is no application to submit today and we will not pretend otherwise. What is written below is what the role is for and what would make somebody right for it, published early on purpose so you can decide whether it is worth watching.
The work
Co-design a bounded research agenda with an internal technical owner. Mentor researchers, review experiments and help create publishable findings. Agree time commitments, institutional permissions, conflicts, IP, data access and publication arrangements before the appointment begins.
The milestone
Within the first 90 days of the agreed appointment, produce a research plan, a baseline and one substantive technical review.
Evidence
Bring an active research program relevant to systems, architecture, security, AI or human-computer interaction. Show interest in both scientific contribution and what a working system teaches us.
Evidence, not credentials. We are describing work you can point at, in whatever form it exists.
The exercise
Propose a question your laboratory could investigate that produces a useful result even if the original hypothesis is disproved.