Description review

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Design

University of Manchester · Manchester, United Kingdom · back to the listing

HR standards

34/100

poor

Title ↔ description

79/100

solid

Reads as

Unclear

no confident match

What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

The University of Manchester is inviting applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate to lead the design of next-generation vision processor hardware. This role focuses on near-sensor integration of novel computer architectures for advanced edge computing scenarios. The research involves design space exploration and the implementation of digital systems using FPGAs, with potential for future ASIC implementation. You will carry out system…

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 16 points (from 50 before penalties). Reviewed 29 Sep 2026.