Research Engineer, Human Biomechanics
Relari, San Francisco, California
About the job
About the role
You will bring a deep understanding of human movement and physical interaction into the same research loop as our robot-learning engineers. You will design experiments and computational representations spanning muscle activity, force, pressure, tactile contact, motion, and touch feedback. The goal is to determine which structure can be measured reliably and transferred across people, tasks, sensors, and robot embodiments. This is an engineering role: ideas should become code, datasets, models, and robot experiments.
What you’ll do
- Develop signal-processing and learning methods for synchronized EMG, force, tactile, pressure, motion, and visual data.
- Design experiments and sensor configurations that capture how humans regulate contact, stability, coordination, and effort during manipulation.
- Build multimodal representations that connect neuromuscular activity with external forces and touch feedback.
- Develop calibration and domain-adaptation methods that remain reliable across people, sessions, tasks, and sensor configurations.
- Create data-collection protocols grounded in biomechanics and downstream robot-learning needs.