About the job
As a Senior Applied Scientist in Sensing, you will develop innovative and complex sensing systems for our emerging robotic solutions and improve existing on-robot sensing to optimize performance and enhance customer experience. The ideal candidate has demonstrated experience designing and troubleshooting custom sensor systems from the ground up. They enjoy analytical problem solving and possess practical knowledge of robotic design, fabrication, assembly, and rapid prototyping. They thrive in an interdisciplinary environment and have led the development of complex sensing systems.
Responsibilities
Design and adapt holistic on-robot sensing solutions for ambiguous problems with fluid requirements
Mentor and develop junior engineers
Work with an interdisciplinary team to execute product designs from concept to production including specification, design, prototyping, validation and testing
Own the detailed design and performance of a sensing system design
Work with the Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Quality organizations as well as vendors to ensure a smooth transition of concept to product
Write functional specifications, design verification plans, and functional test procedures
Exhibit role model behaviors of applied science best practices, thorough and predictive analysis and cradle to grave ownership
Qualifications
Minimum
Ph.D. in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or related fields
Experience working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing operations environment
Technical leadership in conceptualization, design and development of sensing systems
Deep knowledge of sensing and signal processing, estimation, computer vision, or machine learning
Knowledge of optics, camera modeling, and real-time imaging technologies
Hands-on experience crafting proof-of-concept models and prototypes
Thorough understanding and use of principles, theories and concepts of perceptual analysis, as well as ability to apply them to system design
Organizational skills and the ability to work well with teams
Experience communicating concepts to leadership and writing technical documents
Experience evaluating design, performance and tradeoffs of perceptual computing systems
Preferred
Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production
Experience launching a product at scale
Demonstrated experience collaborating with Mechanical, Electrical and Controls engineers
Experience with safety certification of sensing systems
Experience with using sensing modalities in control loops