Tactile Sensing Researcher / Engineer

Your role is to push tactile sensing toward human-level performance by developing sensing systems that capture the structure and dynamics of physical contact, not just detecting touch. You will take a promising tactile sensing technology and drive it forward through repeated cycles of design, fabrication, and testing. This is not a sensor-integration role. You are expected to extend the underlying technology itself—by understanding its physical limits, removing bottlenecks, and systematically improving performance. Biological touch serves as the reference system. You study it to extract concrete performance targets—spatial and temporal resolution, dynamic range, compliance coupling, robustness—and use those targets to guide engineering decisions. The goal is not biological imitation, but convergence at the level of functional performance. You operate end-to-end: from materials and structures at the contact interface, through transduction mechanisms and electronics, to full sensor prototypes tested under realistic contact conditions. Progress is measured in what the system can now sense, resolve, and withstand compared to before