Senior/Research Assistant

Job Description & Requirements

We have a job opening for a Research Assistant position at the Bio-inspired Robotics and Design Laboratory (https://brd.sutd.edu.sg) at SUTD.

The role:

The Research Assistant (RA) will support fundamental and applied research in dexterous manipulation and grasping by developing novel soft and hybrid mechanisms, actuation, and sensing technologies for next-generation applications in both harsh and delicate environments. We are looking for researchers with a passion for design, innovation, addvanced fabrication approaches and keen to work with a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities:

• Mechanism design and prototyping for a variety of industrial grasping applications

• Design and run manipulation and grasping experiments in both laboratory environments and real application environments

Key requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineer, Robotics, or related fields
• Experience with Mechanism Design 
• Experience in Additive Manufacturing
• Experience with SolidWorks, Rhino, Grasshopper
• Experience with Embedded systems, Nvidia Jetson, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP32
• Experience with Machine Learning Libraries and Tools: PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, YOLO