Robotics Manufacturing Technician

Medra•San Francisco, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform: 🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity. 🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously. This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things. We’re a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We’re collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting! As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other. Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don’t mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically. We are looking for a Manufacturing Technician to help scale our production. As one of our first hires manufacturing team you will work very closely our hardware team to make our bring our automated lab to life. You will be responsible for building, testing and and providing feedback on the hardware that our robots need to fully automate customer protocols. A love for operating in an experimental and fast paced environment is a must.

Requirements

Strong mechanical intuition and hardware debugging and assembly skills
Strong attention to detail and ability to thoroughly follow written instructions
Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
Experience building, testing, and scaling hardware
A hacker’s mindset and are a quick learner
Willingness to cross discipline boundaries to solve a problem
Know your way around rapid prototyping technology
A willingness to wear many hats / a flexible attitude towards responsibilities and scope
High school diploma or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Ability to read, interpret and work from technical drawings
Experience with CAD and PLM packages
Knowledge of robotics, motion control, camera, force/torque sensors
Experience or familiarity with robot arm manipulators
Experience working in a laboratory or research environment

Responsibilities

Help build, test, maintain and ship our robotic systems
Follow detailed work instructions and provide feedback to help improve our product and processes
Maintain inventory of our components and finished assemblies
Maintain a clean and organized workspace