Lab Automation Engineer

Q ANALYSTS LLC; Zürich; On-site; CHF 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Q Analysts is seeking a Lab Test Automation Engineer to join our Client's Core Technologies team in Zürich. You will operate and maintain robotic measurement and motion capture systems to capture high-quality datasets for evaluating tracking systems.

Collaborate with engineers and researchers to apply techniques for VR system evaluation, data processing, and results documentation. Strong Python and some C++ skills are valued, with Linux experience and exposure to motion capture a plus.

Qualifications

• Comfortable with productivity software (Word, Excel, Email).
• Familiar with executing simple scripts and data transfer on Linux devices.
• Comfortable with DMM and hand tools; basic debugging of battery-powered devices.
• Optional: familiarity with operating motion capture systems or industrial robots.
• Knowledge of computer vision or camera calibration is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Organize lab rooms and prepare equipment; set up/calibrate OptiTrack for ground-truth data collection.
• Read/write Python scripts; C++ knowledge is useful as we use C++ packages in the pipeline.
• Initialize test fixtures and motion capture systems; organize and upload datasets to file servers.
• Occasionally pack/transport/setup portable measurement systems.
• Analyze results and share insights with the requesting team; adapt tools for statistical analysis.

Skills

Python scripting

C++

Linux

Data analysis

VR systems

Tools

OptiTrack

Job description

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Job Description

Q Analysts is seeking a Lab Test Automation Engineer to join our Client's Core Technologies team. Our Client's team applies a range of software, computer vision and robotics techniques to build systems and tools that enable accurate quality evaluation and regression testing of tracking systems and algorithms.

You will be responsible for operating and maintaining robotic measurement and motion capture systems. You will use these tools to capture high quality datasets. Collaborating with engineers and research scientist, you will learn and execute techniques for evaluating prototype VR systems, processing test data and documenting results.

Tasks include:

• Organizing the lab rooms, preparing the equipment and also setup/calibrate OptiTrack system for ground truth data collection
• Being able to read/use and write mainly python scripts but also c++ code experience is very useful since we use many c++ packages in the pipeline
• Execute specific step-by-step initialization of test fixtures and motion capture systems and organize and upload excel and other datasets to file servers
• Occasionally organize, pack, transport, unpack, setup and operate portable measurement system
• Analyze and share results of tests them with the team that requested them. The analysis is highly dependent on the project and either we use the existing tools or we write our own for statistical analysis or whatever else is needed.

The data collection includes VR devices and mobile phones as well and data collection is focused on cameras as well as sensors.

Qualifications

• Comfortable with productivity software (Word, Excel, Email)
• Familiar with executing simple scripts, data transfer on Linux devices
• Comfortable with DMM, hand tools, simple debug of battery-powered devices

(optional) Familiar with operating motion capture systems or industrial robots

Computer vision experience (a big plus would be camera calibration experience),

Additional Information

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