Optical Sensing Intern - Robot Perception

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Rhoda AI Optical Sensing Intern at Rhoda AI will design and conduct experiments to evaluate sensor performance in real-world conditions. The role involves working with perception and hardware engineers to optimize sensor settings and improve detection algorithms.

Responsibilities

Design experiments that answer real engineering questions, such as which sensor settings work best for each job, and whether a sensor still sees a person in direct sunlight
Explain why a sensor fails, from the physics up: ambient light, dynamic range, multipath, reflectance, angle of incidence, heat
Propose and test what to do about each failure: a different setting, a filter, a mounting change, or a check the software can run
Build the scenes, targets and scenarios that reproduce real-world conditions in the lab, and in the field when the lab isn’t enough
Use sensor SDKs and firmware to sweep and tune settings such as exposure, gain, frame rate, range modes and filtering
Write Python to process images and point clouds and turn raw data into clear numbers: range, accuracy, noise, dropout
Present findings and recommendations to engineers who will act on them

Qualification

Pursuing an MS in OpticsStrong grasp of optical sensing physicsHands-on with camerasComfortable with sensor SDKsExplains results clearlyCamera or sensor calibrationThermal or infrared imagingOptical modeling or sensor simulationROS 2 and recorded-data tools

Required

Pursuing an MS in Optics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Vision or Robotics, with research or lab experience designing experiments
Strong grasp of optical sensing physics: image formation, noise, dynamic range, time-of-flight and LiDAR principles
Hands-on with cameras, LiDAR, time-of-flight or other optical sensors in a lab or on a robot
Comfortable with sensor SDKs, drivers and configuration
Python for numerical analysis and image or point-cloud processing (NumPy, OpenCV, Open3D or similar)
Curiosity to dig past “it doesn’t work” to the cause, and creativity in finding fixes
Explains results clearly, in writing and with plots, to people outside your specialty

Preferred

Camera or sensor calibration
Thermal or infrared imaging
Optical modeling or sensor simulation
ROS 2 and recorded-data tools

Benefits

Vision

Company

Rhoda AI

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