Sensor R&D Engineer: Real-World Sensing

Mecka; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mecka is hiring a sensor-focused engineer to design and integrate physical sensors for a global data-capture network supporting robotics and embodied AI. You will run controlled experiments, build and test sensor fixtures, calibrate signals, and ensure robustness across real-world hardware deployments.

You will collaborate with hardware teams to optimize sensing physics, readout electronics, and data acquisition pipelines, while documenting reproducible methods for production use.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience developing or integrating physical sensors.
• Hands-on experience with tactile, force, or other physical sensors and sensing physics.
• Practical skills in laboratory instrumentation and data acquisition; depth in sensor fabrication or readout electronics and system integration.
• Ability to design controlled experiments and distinguish signals from noise.
• Proficiency in Python for signal processing, analysis, and visualization.
• Knowledge of calibration, measurement uncertainty, and packaging effects on performance.

Responsibilities

• Develop new sensors or integrate commercial ones, using controlled experiments to select and validate the right sensing approach.
• Build test fixtures and characterize sensitivity, noise, hysteresis, drift, and variation between samples.
• Develop calibration and signal-processing methods that turn raw signals into reliable measurements.
• Integrate sensors with electronics and synchronized recording systems.
• Validate performance after packaging and repeated use, so sensors hold up outside the lab.
• Document methods the hardware team can reproduce.

Skills

Sensor development

Laboratory instrumentation

Data acquisition

Python

Experiment design

Signal processing

Calibration knowledge

Job description

Mecka is hiring a sensor-focused engineer to design and integrate physical sensors for a global data-capture network supporting robotics and embodied AI. You will run controlled experiments, build and test sensor fixtures, calibrate signals, and ensure robustness across real-world hardware deployments.

You will collaborate with hardware teams to optimize sensing physics, readout electronics, and data acquisition pipelines, while documenting reproducible methods for production use.