🖐️ Tactile Sensing Hardware Engineer

About the role

At Proception we're building the hardware layer for Physical AI. Our products, ProHand and ProGlove, let robots manipulate the world with human-like dexterity while collecting high-quality human demonstration data for next-generation robot foundation models. We're backed by First Round Capital, Y Combinator, and other leading investors, and are already shipping to robotics companies and research labs worldwide. We're looking for an exceptional hardware engineer to build the next generation of wearable tactile sensing systems. This is not another VR glove. You'll help develop a glove capable of capturing high-resolution tactile information from the human hand—creating one of the world's most advanced interfaces for teaching robots—and own problems spanning sensing, electronics, manufacturing, and system integration. Instead of making robots imitate people through teleoperation, we're creating the sensing interface that lets robots learn directly from natural human manipulation. If successful, your work could become part of the data collection pipeline behind the next generation of robotics foundation models. This is a role for someone who enjoys building things that don't exist yet, cares deeply about engineering quality, likes moving fast with a small team, and wants their work deployed on real robots—not left in a research paper.

Requirements

• 01Flexible or stretchable electronics, textile-integrated electronics, or printed electronics
• 02Force, pressure, or capacitive sensing
• 03Analog front-end design and embedded systems
• 04Signal processing for high-resolution sensor data
• 05Wearable devices and sensor manufacturing
• 06MEMS or sensor development
• 07Bonus: robotics, human-computer interaction, machine learning for sensing, consumer electronics, or high-volume manufacturing
• 08You enjoy building things that don't exist yet and hold a high bar for engineering quality
• 09You like moving fast with a small team, and want your work deployed on real robots—not left in a research paper

Details & responsibilities

• 01Design flexible tactile sensing systems for the human hand
• 02Develop pressure and force sensing technologies
• 03Build wearable electronic systems from the ground up
• 04PCB design and embedded electronics
• 05Sensor characterization and calibration
• 06Develop manufacturing processes for wearable products
• 07Integrate tactile sensing with robotic data collection pipelines
• 08Own problems end to end across sensing, electronics, manufacturing, and system integration

Compensation & benefits

• 01Help build technology that could fundamentally change how robots learn from humans
• 02Your work could become part of the data collection pipeline behind the next generation of robotics foundation models
• 03Be part of a startup backed by First Round Capital and Y Combinator, redefining physical AI
• 04Ship real products—already deployed to robotics companies and research labs worldwide
• 05Comprehensive health and dental coverage
• 06Competitive salary with equity