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Tactile Sensing Research Engineer
Advance fingertip pressure and thermal sensing toward human-level performance. The role spans end-to-end sensor research: design, fabrication, characterization, and integration onto the production glove.
What you'll do
- Design, fabricate, and iterate tactile sensing hardware across multiple generations of the glove.
- Develop sensor structures, materials interfaces, and transduction mechanisms that survive real wear.
- Build experimental setups that characterize sensors under realistic loading, motion, and contact conditions.
- Quantitatively evaluate performance limits and identify dominant failure modes.
- Partner with the glove platform and ML teams so tactile signal meaningfully improves the dataset.
What we're looking for
- PhD in robotics, EE, ME, materials science, bioengineering, or related field.
- Demonstrated contributions to tactile or related sensing through publications, patents, or shipped hardware.
- Experience taking a sensor from early prototype through multiple iterated hardware generations.
- Hands-on fabrication, assembly, and characterization of physical sensing systems.
- Track record of pushing past fundamental limits rather than working around them.
Nice to have
- Soft or compliant materials in sensing applications.
- Prior work on tactile sensing.