R & D Engineer II

JOB TITLE: R & D Engineer II
LOCATION: Onsite in Redmond, WA
DURATION: 12 month contract
PAY RANGE: $60-70/hour
TOP 3 SKILLS:

• 3 years of academic or industry experience with OptiTrack (preferred) Vicon or other systems and accompanying software
• Familiarity with motion capture technology and systems for both skeleton and rigid-body tracking
• Interest in audio signal processing, audio hardware systems, and acoustics would be a plus – motion-tracking as it relates to audio

COMPANY:
Our client is a Fortune 500 multi-national technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Job Description:
This team at our client brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers, and engineers to create the future of virtual and augmented reality, which together will become as universal and essential as smartphones and personal computers are today. In particular, the Reality Labs Research Audio team is focused on two goals; creating virtual sounds that are perceptually indistinguishable from reality, and redefining human hearing. These two initiatives will allow us to connect people by allowing them to feel together despite being physically apart and allow them to converse in even the most difficult listening environments.

Overview
We are looking for a contract Tracking / Motion-Capture Engineer to work with motion-capture systems to support various tracking-related tasks (e.g. head or full-body tracking) in support of audio/acoustic data collection, experimentation, and demo design. Interest in audio signal processing, audio hardware systems, and acoustics would be a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, optimize, build, and maintain robust optical tracking systems for motion capture within larger experimental setups, including marker-based and non-marker-based tracking
• Troubleshoot and repair tracking systems (optical and other) as needed to maintain experiment throughput
• Determine/develop methods of storing and assessing tracking data, while iterating on system design and configuration to improve data quality and capacity
• Other systems-related engineering and lab setup work as required

Minimum Requirements

• 3 years of academic or industry experience with OptiTrack or Vicon systems and accompanying software
• Familiarity with motion capture technology and systems for both skeleton and rigid-body tracking

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field, e.g. electrical engineering or computer science
• 3 years of programming experience in Python, MATLAB, and/or C/C
• Understanding and experience in audio signal processing
• Experience in designing and performing audio/acoustic experiments in controlled laboratory settings
• Understanding of camera/optical systems and tradeoffs (sensor size, aperture, back focus, FOV, exposure, etc.)
• Experience with ego-centric video
• Experience with SLAM
• Experience with RGBD tracking
• Experience with synchronizing multimodal sensor data
• Experience with writing software for receiving, parsing, and utilizing streaming motion-capture data
• Experience with rigid-body marker design (active and passive) for simultaneous tracking of large numbers of rigid bodies
• Experience with full-body tracking methods

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