Research Fellow in AI-Enabled Flight Deck Systems Integration and Validation

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description Organisation: Cranfield University. Faculty or Department: Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Based at: Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire. Hours of work: 37 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday. Flexible working will be considered. Contract type: Fixed term contract. Fixed Term Period: For 37 months or until 30 April 2030, whichever is sooner. Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £38,655 to £46,492 per annum, with potential progression up to £53,108 per annum. Apply by: 22/11/2026. Role Description . Help us bring four strands of AI research together into one working flight-deck assistant, and test it with airline pilots in our research flight simulator. About the Role . TRUST-IA is a research project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme and coordinated by Cranfield, with university partners in Germany and France, and Rolls-Royce. It is developing an intelligent assistant to help airline pilots manage the engines, both in normal flight and when an engine fails. The assistant has four parts, each developed by a different partner: software that decides how the assistant should behave; monitoring of aircraft and engine condition; monitoring of the pilots; workload and trust from physiological and behavioural measures; and interaction through voice, gesture and mixed reality. You will bring these parts together in