Motion Capture Engineer
Job#: 2044689
Job Description:
Apex is hiring a Motion Capture Engineer for a 1 yar contract on site in Redmond, WA. There is potential to extend up to 2 yearsRate: $60 - $65/hr DOE
Overview
We are looking for a contract Tracking / Motion-Capture Engineer to work with motion-capture systems to support various tracking-related tasks (e.g. head or full-body tracking) in support of audio/acoustic data collection, experimentation, and demo design. Interest in audio signal processing, audio hardware systems, and acoustics would be a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design, optimize, build, and maintain robust optical tracking systems for motion capture within larger experimental setups, including marker-based and non-marker-based tracking
- Troubleshoot and repair tracking systems (optical and other) as needed to maintain experiment throughput
- Determine/develop methods of storing and assessing tracking data, while iterating on system design and configuration to improve data quality and capacity
- Other systems-related engineering and lab setup work as required
Minimum Requirements
- 3+ years of academic or industry experience with OptiTrack or Vicon systems and accompanying software
- Familiarity with motion capture technology and systems for both skeleton and rigid-body tracking
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field, e.g. electrical engineering or computer science
- 3+ years of programming experience in Python, MATLAB, and/or C/C++
- Understanding and experience in audio signal processing
- Experience in designing and performing audio/acoustic experiments in controlled laboratory settings
- Understanding of camera/optical systems and tradeoffs (sensor size, aperture, back focus, FOV, exposure, etc.)
- Experience with ego-centric video
- Experience with SLAM
- Experience with RGBD tracking
- Experience with synchronizing multimodal sensor data
- Experience with writing software for receiving, parsing, and utilizing streaming motion-capture data
- Experience with rigid-body marker design (active and passive) for simultaneous tracking of large numbers of rigid bodies
- Experience with full-body tracking methods
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