Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
Responsibilities Own the tactile sensor stack electrically — from transducer interface and analog front-end through signal conditioning, digitization, and delivery of clean, time-stamped data to downstream compute. Desig…
Skills: Analog Front-End Design, Mixed-Signal Design, PCB Layout, Altium, Tactile Sensing
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$180k–$240k/yr
Who We Are We are a stealth‑mode startup building foundational technology to address performance, scalability, and resiliency challenges in large‑scale AI data center clusters. We are backed by top‑tier VC firms and nota…
Skills: Multi-die IC Packaging, Substrate Design, UCIe Integration, TSMC/OSAT Management, SI/PI Concepts
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
$190k–$260k/yr
The Mission At Vinci, we are building the operator intelligence infrastructure that modern hardware programs rely on daily. We have already proven that a single foundation model works out of the box across physics on rea…
Skills: Physics Simulation, Machine Learning, PyTorch, Numpy, Cuda
Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid
About Us DELFI Diagnostics, Inc. (DELFI Diagnostics) is developing next-generation, blood-based tests that are reliable, accessible and deliver a new way to help detect cancer. Employing advanced machine-learning methods…
Skills: Clinical Study Development, Clinical Operations, Oncology, IVD Diagnostics Development, Regulatory Submissions
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
Overview Who We Are MoFo is a destination law firm for talented, ambitious practitioners who value collaboration, teamwork, and commitment to excellence. We are known around the world not only for delivering innovative y…
Skills: Patent prosecution, Chemistry, Technical writing, Analytical skills, Patent strategy
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$54/hr–$67/hr
Company Description At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, we know world-renowned care begins with world-class caring. That's why we combine advanced technologies and breakthrough discoveries with family-centere…
Skills: Genetic Counseling, Prenatal Diagnosis, Patient Education, Psychosocial Support, Risk Assessment
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
We’re looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our Engineering team to design, build, evaluate, and deploy intelligent AI systems that power enterprise workflows, autonomous assistants, and machine-assisted task automa…
Skills: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLMs, Embeddings
Irvine, California, United States · On-site
$143k–$222k/yr
The Amazon Search team creates customer-focused search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, Amazon Product Search ser…
Skills: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Java, C++
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$81/hr–$92/hr
Company Description At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, we know world-renowned care begins with world-class caring. That's why we combine advanced technologies and breakthrough discoveries with family-centere…
Skills: Ultrasound Diagnostic Equipment, Doppler Scans, Obstetric Ultrasounds, Patient Care, PACS
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$87/hr–$109/hr
Company Description We are proud to inform you that this position is eligible for our Student Loan Assistance Program. You may receive up to $9,600 which will be applied directly to your student loan account*. *This bene…
Skills: Pediatric Cardiac Care, Critical Care, Intubation, Extubation, Line Placement
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$73/hr–$82/hr
Company Description At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, we know world-renowned care begins with world-class caring. That's why we combine advanced technologies and breakthrough discoveries with family-centere…
Skills: MRI Imaging, Patient Screening, Radiographic Procedures, PACS System, Patient Positioning
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$56/hr–$70/hr
Company Description At Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, we know world-renowned care begins with world-class caring. That's why we combine advanced technologies and breakthrough discoveries with family-centere…
Skills: Audiological Screening, Diagnostic Audiometry, Hearing Instrument Dispensing, Auditory Rehabilitation, Patient Counseling
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$70k–$85k/yr
At Centrillion, we are at the forefront of multiple cutting-edge fields in genetics and biotechnology, including spatial genomics, ultra long DNA sequencing, rapid on-chip sequencing, viral sequencing, genotyping, and sy…
Skills: Process development, Manufacturing engineering, Chemistry, Materials science, Wafer manufacturing
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
About Rivian Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. As a company, we con…
Skills: C++, C, SLAM, Sensor fusion, Stochastic estimation
Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$200k–$300k/yr
About Subsense Subsense is a deep-tech company developing the world’s first non-surgical, bidirectional brain-computer interface powered by plasmonic and magnetoelectric nanoparticles. Our mission is to unlock direct com…
Skills: Capital Strategy, Fundraising, Financial Modeling, Valuation Strategy, Investor Relations
Ansible Government SolutionsPalo Alto, California, United States · On-site
$85/hr–$90/hr
Overview Ansible Government Solutions, LLC (Ansible) is currently seeking Nuclear Medicine Technologists (NMT) to support operations at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System located at 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94…
Skills: Nuclear Medicine Imaging, Data Acquisition, Patient Care, Equipment Calibration, Diagnostic Imaging
Palo Alto, California, United States • On-site
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Own the electrical design of the tactile sensor stack, from analog front-end and signal conditioning to digitization and data delivery. Design high-density PCBs and ensure EMI/ESD robustness for sensors integrated into robotic assemblies.
Requires 5+ years of experience in sensor electronics or high-channel-count data acquisition with strong analog and mixed-signal intuition. Proficiency in Altium for high-density flex PCBs and fluency in embedded systems for board bring-up is essential.
Own the tactile sensor stack electrically — from transducer interface and analog front-end through signal conditioning, digitization, and delivery of clean, time-stamped data to downstream compute.
Design low-noise analog front-ends for high-channel-count tactile arrays across one or more modalities (capacitive, resistive/piezoresistive, magnetic, optical, piezoelectric, MEMS/barometric), including amplification, filtering, ADC selection, and calibration strategy.
Architect multiplexing and scanning schemes for dense taxel arrays, including crosstalk mitigation, drive/sense electrode design, and trade-offs between spatial resolution, sample rate, and power.
Design high-density flex, rigid-flex, and ultra-compact PCBs for volume-constrained, cable-routed assemblies — fingertips, palms, gripper surfaces, and data collection gloves.
Deliver deterministic, tightly synchronized sampling: design clocking, triggering, and timestamping architectures that meet sub-millisecond synchronization requirements with the robot's real-time actuator bus and ML data collection pipelines.
Ensure EMI/ESD robustness — shielding, grounding, and filtering strategies for sensors operating millimeters from motors and power electronics in factory environments.
Characterize sensor electrical performance — noise floor, SNR, bandwidth, drift, hysteresis, temperature sensitivity — and build the electrical side of characterization rigs alongside mechanical ground-truth fixtures.
Bring up boards hands-on: schematic capture, layout review, first-article debug, firmware-adjacent driver and calibration work in collaboration with the firmware team.
Contribute to DFM/DFA so sensor electronics scale from low-volume prototypes to high-volume production; work with PCB fabricators, assembly houses, and contract manufacturers to keep parts on spec and on time.
Collaborate cross-functionally with mechanical, firmware, controls, and ML teams to translate raw transducer signals into calibrated, usable manipulation feedback.
Exceptional analog and mixed-signal intuition. You understand noise sources, parasitics, and signal integrity instinctively.
5+ years of experience (or equivalent "hard tech" projects) designing sensor electronics, analog front-ends, or high-channel-count data acquisition systems.
Direct experience with the readout electronics of at least one tactile or contact sensing modality — capacitive, resistive, optical/vision-based, magnetic, piezoelectric, MEMS, or barometric.
Strong low-noise analog design skills: instrumentation amplifiers, precision references, filter design, ADC architectures, and calibration techniques.
High proficiency in schematic capture and PCB layout (Altium or similar), including high-density flex and rigid-flex design.
Solid embedded systems fluency: SPI/I2C/UART and high-speed serial interfaces, MCU selection and bring-up, and enough firmware capability to debug your own boards.
Strong bench skills — oscilloscopes, LCR meters, spectrum/network analyzers — and a hands-on debugging approach with the ability to iterate quickly.
Experience designing for volume manufacturing and working with PCB fabs, assembly houses, and contract manufacturers.
You are comfortable with ambiguity, move fast, and have an "engineering curiosity" that drives you to understand how the entire system works, not just your part.
PhD or research experience in tactile sensing, electronic skin, neuromorphic/event-based sensing, or contact-rich manipulation.
Experience with real-time industrial communication buses (EtherCAT, CAN-FD) and time synchronization protocols.
Prior work instrumenting wearables or data collection gloves, including tethered high-bandwidth acquisition systems.
DSP or ML-adjacent experience processing high-rate sensor streams into features or training data.
Prior work on humanoid hands, dexterous grippers, haptic devices, or prosthetics.
Mind Robotics is building the generalized physical intelligence required to solve the world’s most demanding industrial challenges. We believe the path to general-purpose robotics begins where the need is most acute and the environment is most structured: the factory floor.
Offices: Palo Alto, CA 94306, US
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