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Job Requirements
What You’ll Research, Build & Prove
- Robotics, Motion & Coordinate Systems
- Kinematics & Geometry: Develop forward/inverse kinematics, rigid-body transformations, coordinate-frame architectures, calibration methods, and geometric error models for precision equipment.
- Motion & Control: Design and evaluate motion strategies, servo behavior, trajectory generation, active alignment, and closed-loop control for precision positioning tasks.
- Calibration & Registration: Create robust methods for hand-eye calibration, sensor-to-machine registration, multi-axis alignment, and recovery from drift or reconfiguration.
- Machine Vision, Sensing & Measurement
- Machine Vision: Develop 2D/3D vision methods for feature detection, pose estimation, inspection, alignment, and process feedback; select and optimize cameras, lenses, illumination, and acquisition strategies.
- Sensing Architecture: Integrate cameras, position sensors, force/other sensors, and process signals into coherent measurement systems; use sensor fusion and estimation where it adds value.
- Precision Metrology: Develop methods for repeatability, reproducibility, uncertainty, drift, calibration, correlation, and machine-to-external-metrology validation. Treat measurement as an engineered system, not just a sensor choice.
- Difficult Process-Control & Equipment Problems
- Closed-Loop Process Control: Attack hard problems in precision alignment, fiber handling, stripping/cleaving, laser joining/welding, inspection, and other processes where motion, sensing, timing, and process physics interact.
- Next-Generation Equipment Concepts: Take new equipment ideas from first principles through benchtop prototype, algorithm development, hardware selection, integration, and technical proof-of-concept.
- Prototype to Scale: Partner with equipment, manufacturing-process, optics, mechanical, controls, and software engineers to turn successful prototypes into robust, maintainable production capability.
- Software, Experiments & Technical Rigor
- Algorithms & Code: Develop research and prototype software in Python, C++, MATLAB, or similar environments; move critical algorithms into production software in partnership with the software team.
- Experimental Science: Design experiments that separate mechanism from noise, build error budgets, quantify uncertainty, and use data to challenge assumptions before they harden into equipment architecture.
- Technical Communication & IP: Document methods and design decisions clearly; contribute to invention disclosures, patents, internal technical standards, and external technical communication where appropriate.
What your background should look like
- Education: PhD completed by the start date in Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering Science, Applied Physics, or a closely related field.
- Research Depth: Doctoral research demonstrating depth in at least two of the following: robot kinematics/dynamics/control; machine/computer vision; calibration/metrology; robotic manipulation; sensing/state estimation; precision automation; process control.
- Real Hardware: Hands-on experience building, integrating, calibrating, or debugging physical robotic, mechatronic, imaging, or automated systems. We are looking for someone who enjoys making hardware work.
- Programming: Strong technical programming ability in Python, C++, MATLAB, or equivalent, with the ability to turn mathematical methods into reliable experimental code.
- Fundamentals: Strong command of linear algebra, geometry, optimization/estimation, experimental design, and quantitative problem solving.
- Experience Level: Industry experience is not required. This role is intentionally designed for a new PhD, postdoctoral researcher, or early-career researcher/engineer ready to move from academic research into high-impact industrial R&D.
- Especially Relevant Experience
- Robotics & Control: Visual servoing, robot calibration, precision manipulation, motion planning, servo control, system identification, or manipulation under uncertainty.
- Vision & Perception: Camera calibration, geometric vision, 2D/3D perception, pose estimation, image processing, active sensing, OpenCV/PCL/HALCON, ROS/ROS2, or similar tools.
- Precision Systems: Micro-assembly, semiconductor equipment, medical robotics, microscopy/instrumentation, aerospace mechanisms, automated test, or other systems where micron-scale accuracy and repeatability matter.
- Measurement Science: Uncertainty analysis, Gauge R&R/MSA, error budgeting, correlation, drift compensation, traceability, or high-precision calibration.
- Optics: Optics or photonics experience is useful but not required. Strong robotics, vision, controls, and measurement fundamentals are more important; you can learn the optical domain here.
Why TE Connectivity / Why Rochester
You will get a combination that is difficult to find in a single early-career role: a small advanced-engineering environment where your technical decisions matter, direct mentorship from senior technical leaders, hands-on access to real machines and laboratories, and the scale of a global technology company capable of turning successful ideas into manufacturing systems used across sites and products. Own the Full Loop: Work from first principles and algorithms through physical hardware, experiments, and production translation — rather than being confined to one narrow subsystem. High-Quality Mentorship: Learn directly from experienced technical authorities while being expected to develop your own point of view and technical ownership quickly. Work on AI Infrastructure: Apply robotics, sensing, and precision engineering to optical connectivity technologies serving rapidly evolving AI and hyperscale-computing architectures. Rochester Engineering Ecosystem: Build your career in one of North America’s deepest optics, photonics, imaging, and precision-engineering communities, with extensive academic and industrial expertise in the region. Relocation Support: This role is based in Rochester, NY because the work is hands-on with equipment and laboratories. TE will provide relocation assistance for the selected candidate.
Career Development
- Apprenticeship to Ownership: Start with close technical mentorship, then expand into independent ownership of new measurement, vision, robotics, and equipment capabilities as you demonstrate readiness.
- Broad Technical Range: Build depth across robotics, machine vision, metrology, software, precision mechanics, optics, and manufacturing rather than being locked into a single academic specialty.
- Technical Career Path: Develop toward senior technical roles in robotics, automation, sensing/metrology, advanced equipment development, or broader system architecture.
- Innovation Visibility: Opportunities to create intellectual property and contribute to technical communities, conferences, and standards where appropriate to the work.
Competencies
SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.
Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
COMPENSATION
- Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $103,900 - $155,900 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
- Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
- Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits
BENEFITS
A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
EOE, Including Disability/Vets
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Job Locations
780 Salt Road
Webster, New York 14580-9709
United States
Posting City
Webster
Job Country
United States
Travel Required
Less than 10%
Requisition ID
159921
Workplace Type
Onsite
External Careers Page
Engineering & Technology
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