Engineering Associate
The Ash Group
Everett, WA, United States
Full-time
- W2 Contract only - no 3rd parties
- Local Candidates only
What You'll Be Doing :
You will 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.
- 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
What We Are Looking For :
- 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
- 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
- Interest in audio signal processing, audio hardware systems, and acoustics would be a plus motion tracking as it relates to audio
Education : Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field (Electrical engineering or computer science preferred)
5 days ago