Role: Engineering Technician
Location: Redwood City, CA
Type: Full-Time
Reports To: Head of Mechanical Engineering
Job Overview:
We are searching for a driven, detail-orientated engineering technician to join our growing organization. The engineering technician's responsibilities include building prototypes, inspecting parts, ensuring the site/lab is safe and clean, and providing customer support. You should be able to troubleshoot equipment, communicate effectively under pressure, and provide effective suggestions for improvement.
To be successful as an engineering technician, you should demonstrate a sound understanding of engineering terminology, and be able to work well in a team. Outstanding engineering technicians are self-starters with an insatiable curiosity, a superb work ethic, and strong interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Work with hardware and software engineering teams to define and conduct product validation testing
- Assemble and build mechanical and electrical systems using hand and power tools
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical problems during a product build or test
- Suggest ideas for design and assembly improvement
- Write reports and documents for testing results
- Manage equipment, tools, and inventory
- Calibrate test equipment
- Build electrical wiring harnesses with various connectors
- Lift and move heavy objects
- Purchase supplies for shop/lab
Qualifications:
- Team player who is able to juggle multiple high priority tasks at once
- Hands-on mechanical/electrical assembly build experience
- Communicates clearly and effectively
- Demonstrates intellectual curiosity
- A willingness to learn and work overtime when required
- 5S experience
- Experience with reading mechanical drawings and assemblies as well as wiring schematics
- Linux experience preferred
- Experience with Solidworks preferred
- Provides suggestions for ways to improve products and equipment
- Able to lift and move heavy objects
About Us:
- Our company was founded in 2017 and has developed a robot that autonomously shuttles food from the kitchen out to customer tables and then brings dishes back for cleaning.
- A start-up gives you the chance for personal development and building up expertise in your field, while providing opportunities for cross-functional growth. We're not a big tech company yet, but we're striving every day to be THE global player when it comes to hospitality robotics. We have deployed to several enterprise customers and are on the cusp of mass manufacturing our robots for the world to use.
- We are a group of motivated people who work hard to make our robots a reality, which can mean occasional extra hours and last-minute improvements. We will challenge you to walk the extra mile, pick your brain until it smokes and make you think outside of the box, but we would also like to hang out with you, have an after-work drink together and celebrate your successes.
- We provide excellent benefits, including comprehensive health coverage, lunch every day, remote work flexibility, internet and phone reimbursement, and employee bonus programs.
If you feel you're ready for a professional adventure in robotics, we would love to hear from you. Please send us your resume with a short overview of yourself with salary expectations and why this role is perfect for you.