Tactile Sensing Hardware Engineer

Proception Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental coverage

Equity

Competitive salary

Job summary

Proception Inc. is seeking a hardware engineer to advance wearable tactile sensing systems for human hand interaction with robots.

You will own sensing, electronics, and manufacturing end-to-end, building a glove-like interface that captures high-resolution tactile data for robotics research and product development. You will design flexible electronics and embedded front-end, develop manufacturing processes, and integrate sensing with data pipelines for robot learning.

Qualifications

• Experience with flexible, stretchable, or printed electronics.
• Experience with force/pressure or capacitive sensing.
• Strong analog front-end design and embedded systems background.
• Experience with signal processing for high‑resolution sensor data.
• Experience with wearable devices and sensor manufacturing.
• Bonus: robotics, human‑computer interaction, ML for sensing, consumer electronics, or high‑volume manufacturing.
• Ability to build things that don’t exist yet and maintain engineering quality.
• Experience moving fast in a small team and deploying on real robots.

Responsibilities

• Design flexible tactile sensing systems for the human hand.
• Develop pressure and force sensing technologies.
• Build wearable electronic systems from the ground up.
• PCB design and embedded electronics.
• Sensor characterization and calibration.
• Develop manufacturing processes for wearable products.
• Integrate tactile sensing with robotic data collection pipelines.
• Own problems end to end across sensing, electronics, manufacturing, and system integration.
• Contribute to data collection pipelines for robotics foundation models.
• Ship real products deployed to robotics companies and labs worldwide.

Skills

Flexible electronics

Stretchable electronics

Printed electronics

Force sensing

Pressure sensing

Capacitive sensing

Analog front-end

Embedded systems

Signal processing

Wearable devices

Sensor manufacturing

Tools

PCB design

Electronics manufacturing

Job description

At Proception we're building the hardware layer for Physical AI. Our products, ProHand and ProGlove, let robots manipulate the world with human-like dexterity while collecting high-quality human demonstration data for next-generation robot foundation models. We're backed by First Round Capital, Y Combinator, and other leading investors, and are already shipping to robotics companies and research labs worldwide.We're looking for an exceptional hardware engineer to build the next generation of wearable tactile sensing systems. This is not another VR glove. You'll help develop a glove capable of capturing high-resolution tactile information from the human hand—creating one of the world's most advanced interfaces for teaching robots—and own problems spanning sensing, electronics, manufacturing, and system integration.Instead of making robots imitate people through teleoperation, we're creating the sensing interface that lets robots learn directly from natural human manipulation. If successful, your work could become part of the data collection pipeline behind the next generation of robotics foundation models. This is a role for someone who enjoys building things that don't exist yet, cares deeply about engineering quality, likes moving fast with a small team, and wants their work deployed on real robots—not left in a research paper.

Requirements

• 01 Flexible or stretchable electronics, textile-integrated electronics, or printed electronics
• 02 Force, pressure, or capacitive sensing
• 03 Analog front-end design and embedded systems
• 04 Signal processing for high-resolution sensor data
• 05 Wearable devices and sensor manufacturing
• 07 Bonus: robotics, human-computer interaction, machine learning for sensing, consumer electronics, or high-volume manufacturing
• 08 You enjoy building things that don't exist yet and hold a high bar for engineering quality
• 09 You like moving fast with a small team, and want your work deployed on real robots—not left in a research paper

Details & responsibilities

• 01 Design flexible tactile sensing systems for the human hand
• 02 Develop pressure and force sensing technologies
• 03 Build wearable electronic systems from the ground up
• 04 PCB design and embedded electronics
• 05 Sensor characterization and calibration
• 06 Develop manufacturing processes for wearable products
• 07 Integrate tactile sensing with robotic data collection pipelines
• 08 Own problems end to end across sensing, electronics, manufacturing, and system integration
• 01 Help build technology that could fundamentally change how robots learn from humans
• 02 Your work could become part of the data collection pipeline behind the next generation of robotics foundation models
• 03 Be part of a startup backed by First Round Capital and Y Combinator, redefining physical AI
• 04 Ship real products—already deployed to robotics companies and research labs worldwide
• 05 Comprehensive health and dental coverage
• 06 Competitive salary with equity