Lead Robotics Technician

Genesis•San Carlos, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Genesis is a full-stack general-purpose robot company with a mission to make general-purpose robots a reality, unlocking infinite physical labor for the world and freeing people for creativity, exploration, and the pursuits they love for their own sake. The company is backed by partners who share its vision and its people work across the Bay Area and Europe, building the engine that will teach robots to do real work in the real world. The company recently unveiled Eno, its wheeled, dexterous robot powered by its GENE foundation model, and is starting to put it to work with real customers. This role is for the first lead technician for both the data collection floor and Eno production. The technician will keep the collection floor running today, and will build Enos from scratch as production starts, and grow the technician team that follows. When a robot arm stops, a hand loses tracking, a camera drifts out of calibration or a cable fails, data stops, and the technician is responsible for getting it running again, finding out why, and making sure it does not come back. When a new station or a new site has to be set up, the technician will build it. When a task needs a fixture that does not exist, the technician will design it. The role involves working with operators every day, with the engineers who design the hardware, and with the reliability team when they test on the floor.

Requirements

Five or more years as an electromechanical, robotics or test technician in a lab, pilot line or production environment. Robots, automation, vehicles, medical devices or lab instruments all count.
Read assembly drawings, schematics and wiring diagrams and build from them.
Build cables and fixtures: crimping, soldering, connector assembly, strain relief, basic fabrication, and you can design a simple fixture when none exists.
Troubleshoot with instruments: multimeter, oscilloscope basics, continuity and power checks, and you are comfortable at a Linux command line to read logs, restart services and run scripts.
Run calibration or alignment procedures on robots, cameras or sensors and know why cadence and documentation matter.
Think in root cause, not symptoms, and write it down.
Be organized about parts, tools and records, and notice when something is off.
Have trained or led other technicians, or be ready to.

Nice To Haves

Robot arms or dexterous hands
3D printing and basic machining
Electrical safety training
Time on a manufacturing or NPI line

Responsibilities

Keep the collection floor running: diagnose, repair and maintain robot arms, hands, wheeled bases, station computers and cameras, and the wearable collection kits (head-mounted cameras, gloves, wireless hubs); swap, repair, verify, return to service.
Assemble and bring up Eno units as production starts: build from assembly drawings and work instructions, run the end-of-line checks, and maintain the fleet once it is running.
Set up stations and sites: build new stations from the station BOM, reconfigure them when the layout changes, and set up stations for deployments at partner and customer sites so they run the same way they run here.
Design and build mini fixtures, jigs, brackets and cable harnesses: crimped and soldered connectors to a workmanship standard, built to drawing or to your own sketch when the drawing does not exist yet.
Run calibration and readiness: arm, hand and camera calibration on cadence and after any repair; daily station checks; the tests that say a station is ready for collection or evaluation.
Find the root cause: every failure gets a tag from our failure list and a short write-up; repeat failures get a real investigation with the engineers and a fix that sticks.
Keep the records: unit, serial, what failed, what was done, parts used, in our fleet and maintenance system; spares and consumables stocked and reordered before they run out.
Support the engineers: real-robot testing with the reliability team, retrofits and hardware changes on the floor, feedback on what breaks and why.
Write it down: repair procedures, calibration SOPs, station build instructions with photos, so the next technician does it the same way.
Grow the team: train the technicians who join after you and set the standard for how work is done.