# Experimentation Engineer, Robotics

**Company:** [Origin](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/origin-tech)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Embedded Engineering
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Ros 2, Python, Embedded Systems, Microcontrollers, Uart, I2C, Spi, Can, Design Of Experiments, Statistical Analysis, Control Systems, Robot Arms, Computer Vision, Git, Solidworks
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Build and instrument robotic drywall-finishing test rigs, design controlled experiments, and automate robot trials and data collection with ROS 2 and Python. The role requires broad hands-on robotics experience, embedded and electromechanical integration skills, and strong experimental analysis and documentation abilities.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Build and maintain experimental setups
- Design, build, instrument, and maintain test rigs, fixtures, and experimental setups for robotic drywall-finishing trials.
- Integrate sensors, end-of-arm tooling, actuators, and data-acquisition hardware, including wiring, mounting, calibration, and upkeep.
- Debug systems across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software layers, keeping setups repeatable and in a known-good state.
- Improve setup designs to make experiments faster, cleaner, and easier to reproduce.

### Design and run experiments
- Design and run controlled experiments using hypothesis-driven and design-of-experiments approaches.
- Identify independent, dependent, controlled, and confounding variables.
- Maintain repeatability and reproducibility in measurement workflows and distinguish real effects from setup noise.
- Analyze interactions across robot arms, end effectors, sensors, surface materials, and motion parameters.
- Document observations in experiment logs, test reports, and result summaries that support engineering decisions.

### Automate test protocols
- Automate test and measurement protocols using ROS 2 and Python.
- Script robot motion sequences, parameter sweeps, and data capture with minimal manual intervention.
- Build tooling for automated data collection, logging, and first-pass analysis.
- Support data collection from end-of-arm systems with advanced sensors, from wiring and drivers through to structured datasets.

## Requirements
- B.E., B.Tech, M.E., or M.Tech in Mechanical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Electrical/Electronics, Instrumentation, Industrial, Aerospace, or Systems Engineering; candidates from Applied Sciences or Experimental Physics with strong hands-on engineering experience may also be considered.
- Approximately 2 years of hands-on robotics and automation experience across varied projects.
- Experimentation experience in a lab, R&D, or test-engineering environment.
- Working knowledge of ROS 2, including nodes, topics, launch files, and basic packages.
- Ability to write production-quality-enough Python for automation, data capture, and analysis.
- Basic embedded-systems knowledge, including microcontrollers, sensor interfacing, UART, I2C, SPI, and CAN.
- Ability to read datasheets and interface sensors.
- Hands-on competence with electromechanical assemblies, sensors, instrumentation, wiring, and calibration.
- Understanding of experimental methods, statistics, design of experiments, control systems, and system design.
- Ability to perform statistical analysis and interpretation of engineering data from physical trials.
- Strong documentation skills.
- Comfort working across disciplines and on unsolved problems.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with industrial or collaborative robot arms such as UR, KUKA, ABB, or Fanuc, including motion programming and integration.
- Imaging-based experimentation, computer vision, machine vision, optical measurement, or laser-based measurement.
- Designing test setups, instrumentation chains, or validation workflows from scratch.
- Force/torque sensors, IMUs, depth cameras, encoders, or other advanced sensing integrated into a data pipeline.
- Data-acquisition systems, real-time logging, or time-synchronized multi-sensor capture.
- Excel, Google Sheets, NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, or MATLAB for experiment logging, analysis, and plotting.
- CAD tools such as SolidWorks, Fusion 360, or Onshape.
- Git and documentation tools such as Notion, Confluence, Jira, or Google Docs.
- Simulation environments such as Gazebo or Isaac Sim.
- Coatings, surface finishing, or abrasives.

## Compensation and benefits
- No compensation or benefits information was provided.

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