Prototyper, Lab Manager, Level 3

Responsibilities

• Support the Vision Science team by managing day‑to‑day lab operations.
• Moderate human‑subject research studies.
• Build rapid prototypes to enable experimental design, validation, and prototyping.
• Manage daily lab operations, including equipment setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Prepare labs for experimental sessions, ensuring protocols, hardware, and software are ready.
• Coordinate study logistics: scheduling participants, managing consent forms, and maintaining study documentation.
• Moderate in‑lab vision science studies, following established research protocols.
• Ensure participant safety, comfort, and data integrity during studies.
• Maintain organized records of study sessions, datasets, and lab inventories.
• Provide hands‑on support to vision scientists during experiment design, setup, and execution.
• Assist in piloting experiments and debugging experimental flows.
• Collaborate closely with researchers, engineers, and designers to translate research needs into practical implementations.
• Support data collection workflows and coordinate handoff of data to researchers for analysis.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of lab processes, tools, and documentation.
• Build rapid prototypes to support vision science experiments and demos, using tools such as Lens Studio, Unity, or similar real‑time/AR platforms.
• Communicate technical constraints and possibilities clearly to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Support internal demos, reviews, and knowledge sharing related to lab capabilities and prototypes.

• Earned Bachelor’s Degree (MA/PHD preferred) in a related field such as vision science, perception psychology, cognitive psychology, psychophysics, computer science, or human‑computer interaction.
• Experience with programming for VR/AR using applications like Lens Studio or Unity.
• Experience with object‑oriented programming.
• Experience running experimental studies.
• Experience with experiment development packages such as Psychtoolbox or Psycho Py.
• Experience with image‑processing software such as Matlab or Python.
• Experience with data analysis and statistical software such as JMP, R, Matlab, or Python.

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• MA.
• PhD.