Industrial Maintenance Technician

Career Genie, Inc; Portugal; On-site; EUR 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Equity participation

Job summary

Career Genie, Inc is looking for a dedicated maintenance technician to join their robotics factory in Caniçal, Madeira. This role involves maintaining production machinery and responding to breakdowns to ensure minimal downtime.

Ideal candidates should have technical training in industrial maintenance and experience with CNC machines. Enjoy the vibrant lifestyle in Madeira along with relocation support and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Experience with production machinery maintenance.
• Willingness to relocate to Caniçal, Madeira.
• Strong documentation habits.

Responsibilities

• Maintain machinery, tooling, and facilities at the Caniçal site.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on production machinery.
• Collaborate with the production team for maintenance scheduling.

Skills

Hands-on experience maintaining CNC machines

Ability to read electrical schematics

Methodical fault-finding approach

Education

Technical training or apprenticeship in industrial maintenance

Job description

• Work on real robots being built for real-world deployment, not just prototypes or lab demos
• Join early and have meaningful impact on how a robotics factory scales its operations and reliability
• Be part of a multidisciplinary team spanning AI, robotics, software, and manufacturing
• Contribute to a company building both the physical systems and the intelligence layer behind autonomous robotics
• Enjoy the opportunity to live and work in Madeira, with support for relocation and a growing local tech ecosystem

LOCATION

ABOUT DATAMENTORS

Datamentors is a robotics start-up building an agnostic orchestration platform and a family of proprietary robots — quadruped, mobile upper-body and humanoid — assembled at our own factory in Caniçal, Madeira. We also develop custom Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that give our robots natural-language reasoning and autonomy, deployable across sectors from hospitality and healthcare to defence and logistics. With prototypes running and a clear path to 600 units per year, the engineers joining now will shape both the hardware and the intelligence behind Ardia for years to come.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Keep the factory running. You will maintain the machinery, tooling, and facilities at the Caniçal site, and respond to breakdowns to minimise production downtime.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on production machinery, CNC equipment, and tooling
• Diagnose and repair electrical, pneumatic, and mechanical faults
• Maintain records of maintenance activities and spare parts inventory
• Support installation of new equipment as the factory expands
• Collaborate with production team to schedule maintenance around production windows

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Technical training or apprenticeship in industrial maintenance, mechatronics, or electrical engineering
• Hands-on experience maintaining CNC machines, conveyor systems, or similar manufacturing equipment
• Ability to read electrical schematics and mechanical drawings
• Methodical fault-finding approach and strong documentation habits
• Based in or willing to relocate to Caniçal, Madeira; EU work permit required

WHY DATAMENTORS

• Work on real robots shipping to real customers — not a research lab or demo company
• Equity participation in an early-stage, venture-backed robotics company
• Relocation support and competitive compensation
• Madeira: island lifestyle, low cost of living, and a growing tech ecosystem