Essential Duties and Responsibilities: * Develop and implement vision-guided real-time robotic manipulation methods for crystal harvesting * Design and deploy closed-loop perception and control pipelines using visual feedback * Contribute to vision-based servoing approaches for precise, real-time positioning * Integrate perception outputs with motion planning and execution using ROS2 and MoveIt2 * Perform system calibration (e.g., hand-eye calibration, camera calibration) to ensure accurate 3D spatial alignment * Evaluate and improve system robustness, including perception uncertainty and failure modes * Collaborate closely with domain experts across crystallography, controls, and engineering * Participate in system testing, tuning, and performance evaluation * Document methods and results; contribute to reports, publications, and presentations Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: * B.S. in Robotics, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field * Demonstrated experience developing and implementing robotics systems. * Calibration methods Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: * M.S. in Robotics, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field * Experience developing robotic systems that integrate vision-guided control in real-world settings * Experience working with ROS2-based ecosystems * Experience with camera calibration, hand-eye calibration, and coordinate frame registration * Experience integrating machine learning models into robotics * Familiarity with: * Micro-Manipulation * Sensor fusion or state estimation * Real-time system debugging and performance tuning What Success Looks Like: * Development of a system capable of reliably detecting and localizing protein crystals * Implementation of closed-loop robotic manipulation using visual feedback * Improved robustness and reliability of the crystal harvesting process under real-world conditions Additional Information: * This is an on-site position based at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.