Job Description
Job Description
FocusKPI is seeking a Data Collection Technician to join one of our clients, a high-tech SaaS company. This position is for the Robot Intelligence department within the client's company.
Work Location: Mountain View, CA (Onsite role, 5 days/week onsite)
Duration: 4-month contract with high potential to extend for next year, depending on the candidate's performance
Pay Range: $30 - 36/hr
Responsibilities:
- Collect robot teleoperation and navigation data using predefined experimental protocols.
- Operate robots, grippers, and teleoperation devices.
- Set up and calibrate cameras, sensors, and data acquisition systems.
- Help set up a computer vision annotation pipeline.
- Ensure synchronization of vision, robot state, and sensor data.
- Document experimental conditions, maintain accurate records, and verify data quality.
- Organize, label, upload, and maintain detailed records about collected datasets.
- Perform routine hardware inspections and report equipment issues.
- Assist with basic troubleshooting of robotics software and hardware.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of prior experience working with robots (manipulators and humanoids) and 1+ years of experience working with teleoperation systems are required.
- Overall, 3-4 years of professional experience is preferred
- Bachelor's degree in any field or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree
- Bachelor's degree in engineering (preferred)
- Hands-on experience working with Robots & teleoperation devices (mandatory)
- Prior experience with Mechatronics and working with sensor systems is preferred.
- Required skills: Robot demonstration (like observing how robots are working), TeleOperation devices, Data collection, Data labeling (labeling good or bad data)
- Experience working in a Linux environment
- Basic awareness of Python (no scripting/programming is required)
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organizational and documentation skills.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Thank you!
FocusKPI Hiring Team
Founded in 2010, FocusKPI, Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with an East Coast office in Boston, Massachusetts.