Robotic drywall finishing is a hard, unsolved problem — and you’ll be in the thick of solving it.
This role sits at the intersection of three things: building the physical setups we experiment on, running the experiments that tell us what actually works, and automating those experiments so we can run far more of them. You’ll stand up test rigs and instrumentation, design and execute DOEs on the robotic finishing process, and then write the ROS 2 and Python tooling that turns a manual trial into a repeatable, scripted protocol.
It is deliberately interdisciplinary — mechanical assembly, embedded systems and sensors, robot software, and experimental method all in the same week. We’re looking for someone whose experience is broad rather than narrow: two years spent solving a variety of problems across several projects teaches you more of what this role needs than two years spent deep inside a single one.
If you think like an experimentalist, are comfortable with a wrench in one hand and a terminal in the other, and want your work to visibly move the system forward, this role is for you.