Highlights
Assemble, debug and verify capture systems with predefined needs and specifications by collaborating with hardware engineers, motion capture vendors and internal engineering/research teams. The ideal candidate has experience with multi-camera capture systems, capable of quickly learning how to work with new custom devices, including hardware setup, capture, calibration, system upgrades, and data transfer.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Sausalito, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $42–$46 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Job Title: Capture System Engineer
Location: Sausalito, CA
Duration: 8 months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Summary:
- Client brings together a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers to create the future of wearable experiences.
- We are currently seeking systems engineers with a passion for technology to develop the next generation of smart, AI-powered wearable devices.
- In this role, you will partner with research scientists, hardware engineers, software engineers, and various cross-functional teams to build and run state-of-the-art capture systems.
- These systems fuel AI research focused on understanding and modeling the physical world. They require researching, implementation and upgrading of new and existing capture systems while running at high volumes and throughputs.
- The ideal candidate has experience with multi-camera capture systems, capable of quickly learning how to work with new custom devices, including hardware setup, capture, calibration, system upgrades, and data transfer.
- A qualified candidate will work with software engineers and external partners, suppliers, and researchers to ensure all aspects of the project are covered.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Conduct data capture sessions, data annotations, data processing and QA using commercial and proprietary software and hardware.
- Support and help maintain capture labs.
- Assemble, debug and verify capture systems with predefined needs and specifications by collaborating with hardware engineers, motion capture vendors and internal engineering/research teams.
- Test existing capture systems end to end for accuracy and correctness. Find sources of error and isolate them to specific components.
- Provide technical feedback for quality, stability and system output by monitoring system and infrastructure effectiveness.
- Provide milestones and timelines for project management.
- Identify and escalate blockers and slowdowns in processes, work with researchers and lab managers to resolve and unblock projects.
- Produce technical documentations for capture systems.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
- Proficient in working with both Linux and Windows operating systems and using command line.
- Experience working in a production capture setting.
- Experience with setting up, maintaining, and working with multi-camera systems, depth sensors, IMUs, and putting these together to collect data in a unified capture system.
- Experience in debugging, profiling, and troubleshooting both software and hardware issues.
- Experience working on applied research and/or product development involving joint hardware/software design, development, and integration.
- Hands-on, resourceful, and creative in problem-solving with a can-do attitude.
- Curious in learning new and experimental technologies and quick to apply them in day-to-day work.
- Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences by adapting to their background.
- Experience in working with cross-functional teams on building systems that involve Engineering, Research, Product Design, and external clients.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years experience working with capture systems.
- Experience working in a production capture setting.
- Experience working with distributed systems and/or cloud services.
- Proficient and/or familiarity with scripting and automation, such as Python and shell scripts (eg. bash, zsh etc.).
- Experience with multi-camera systems.
- Experience working with or using open source software.
- Experience in fault analysis or failure mode analysis.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.