TEMP-Lab/Research Support
Georgia Institute of Technology
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- Who can apply
- New grads and up to 2 years · Diploma
- Must know
- Operations
- Work
- On-site in Atlanta Metropolitan Area
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
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- Listed
- Nov 5, 2026 · still open
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About the Role
Provide support services in the operation and maintenance of an academic or research laboratory.
Key Responsibilities
- Setup, operate, and maintain instruments and other equipment used in performing lab tests and experiments.
- Order supplies and materials as required; maintain records.
- Setup laboratory media/equipment for demonstrations.
- May clean instruments, glassware, and other lab equipment.
- Prepare and process laboratory samples for use in assigned tests.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Additional Responsibilities
- Fine-tuning vision-language-action models in both simulation and on the physical Franka robot arm with additional encoders for tactile feedback from the Robotiq tactile gripper.
- Gathering tactile gripper data on the Franka robot via teleoperation across various tasks and tabletop environment setups.
- Formatting and normalizing tactile data in collaboration with other data-collecting teams.
- Assist lab PhD students with implementations of haptic rendering models and data collection for haptic devices related to connecting human language to haptic signals.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Working knowledge in the use of instrumentation and other lab equipment.
- Working knowledge of laboratory processes and procedures specific to the assigned lab.
- Skills in inventory management.
- Use of specialized computer applications.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma, GED Certificate, or Vocational School Diploma.
- Up to two years of job-related experience.
Required Skills
- Experience with setting up, debugging, maintaining, and teleoperating the Franka Panda 3 robot arm.
- Experience cataloging and storing large-scale robot rollout data.
- Experience fine-tuning deep neural VLA models for robot control, including the addition of novel components such as the research intervention tactile encoder.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in computer science.
- Previous experience working in a research lab setting.
- Previous experience working with the Franka Panda 3 robot arm.