Wearable Tactile Sensing Hardware Engineer — Equity

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

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.