Job Title: Research Engineer - Sensor Modeling

Location: Redmond, WA

Duration: 12 Months

We are looking for a motivated Research Engineer to join our client's team, whose mission is to create and apply scientific knowledge about the cognitive system to improve human experiences. Our client is specifically looking for candidates with experience in supporting machine learning / deep learning applications. Our client's team of researchers is identifying cognitively-inspired solutions for human-computer interaction. The chosen candidates will work with a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers and have access to cutting-edge technology, resources, and testing facilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement protocols & pipelines for automated sensor evaluation.
• Process and analyze the sensor signal for SOP sensor performance evaluation.
• Develop GUIs and tools for sensor data visualization and exploration.
• Implement machine learning models for wearable sensor signals.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, applied math, sensing & control, robotics, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience with sensor data modeling, analysis, and visualization.
• 3+ years of experience coding with Python and software engineering best practices (version control, code reviews). Knowledge of MATLAB is a plus.
• Solid understanding of digital signal processing (DSP) and sensor characterization.
• Experience developing GUIs, data visualization & exploration tools using QT, HTML5 (Plotly, Chart.js, D3.js, etc) or other toolkits
• Experience implementing, debugging, and fine-tuning machine learning models.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree and 1+ years of industry experience.
• Experience bringing up and debugging prototype/scientific software-hardware systems (e.g., wearable sensing systems, multi-camera sensing/tracking solutions like OptiTrack, etc.).
• Experience with sensor fusion, human-computer interaction (HCI), human–machine collaboration, machine learning, deep learning, or related fields.
• Experience with C or C++ programming and virtual reality application development.