Junior Research Fellow in Reliability and Remaining Useful Life of Underwater Vehicles at IIT Kharagpur
Job Description
The Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability at IIT Kharagpur is recruiting a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) for a project led by Prof. Indranil Hazra. The project is building a reliability-based framework to estimate the remaining useful life (RUL) of autonomous underwater vehicles with many components. The last date to apply is 26 September 2026.
At a glance
- Position: Junior Research Fellow (1 post), Ref. IIT/SRIC/R/SRU/2026/102
- Project: Development of an advanced reliability-based remaining useful life (RUL) estimation framework for multi-component autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems
- PI: Prof. Indranil Hazra, Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability
- Upper age limit: 28
- Apply by: 26 September 2026 (online, no fee)
An autonomous underwater vehicle is a system of many parts, including thrusters, batteries, seals and sensors, that degrade at different rates. Estimating how long the whole vehicle can keep operating safely means combining component reliability models with condition-monitoring data, which is the core of prognostics and health management (PHM).
What the role involves
- Research on reliability-based RUL estimation for multi-component AUV systems
- Stochastic and simulation-based modelling of degradation and failure
- Data-driven and machine-learning methods for fault diagnosis, condition monitoring or RUL prediction
Eligibility
- A postgraduate degree in basic science, or a graduate or postgraduate degree in a professional course, with selection through a national test (CSIR-UGC NET including lectureship, or GATE) or a national-level exam run by bodies such as DST, DBT, DAE, DOS, DRDO, MoE, ICAR, ICMR, IIT, IISc, IISER or NISER
- Preferred: exposure to reliability engineering, predictive maintenance, PHM, and stochastic or simulation-based modelling
- Desirable: machine learning or deep learning for fault diagnosis, condition monitoring or RUL prediction; Python or MATLAB; familiarity with reliability or simulation tools
- Upper age limit: 28
The advertisement gives no separate details on tenure or the interview process.
Pay and duration
- The pay field in the online advertisement is blank; confirm the fellowship amount with the PI
- Project-linked post
How to apply
Apply online through IIT Kharagpur’s SRIC staff recruitment portal, using the Apply Online button on the official advertisement. The advertisement lists no application fee. Apply before 26 September 2026. Other current SRIC project openings are on the SRIC recruitment page.
Key dates
- Last date to apply: 26 September 2026
Please read the official IIT Kharagpur SRIC advertisement before applying, and browse more JRF positions on ResearchJobs.in.
Hiring institution: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Official advertisement: erp.iitkgp.ac.in
How to prepare for this application
- Show PHM or reliability work: a thesis or project on degradation modelling, Weibull analysis, Markov models or RUL prediction (for example on the NASA C-MAPSS data) is directly relevant.
- List your ML tools: say which models you have trained for fault diagnosis or prognostics and in which language, Python or MATLAB.
- Fill the portal form carefully: SRIC screens applications on what you enter, so give exact marks, CGPA and dates, and upload the documents it asks for.
- Check the age limit and relaxations: the upper age limit is stated in the advertisement, and relaxation for reserved categories follows institute norms.
- Contact the PI's group if unsure: faculty email addresses are on IIT Kharagpur's department pages; keep any query short and specific.
About IIT Kharagpur and SRIC
IIT Kharagpur, founded in 1951, was the first of the Indian Institutes of Technology. Its Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC) unit manages externally funded research projects and recruits the temporary staff, such as JRFs, SRFs, project associates and project assistants, who work on them. These are project-linked posts: they last for the tenure the advertisement gives, or until the project ends.