Fleet Reliability Engineer: Hands-On Robotics & Telemetry

Dyna Robotics; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyna Robotics in Redwood City, CA seeks an engineer to own the health of our humanoid robot fleet, from root-cause analysis of hardware failures at the bench to building telemetry and tooling that catches degradation before downtime.

This is a hands-on role at the intersection of hardware, firmware, controls, and data infrastructure; you will repair, modify brackets, design fixtures, and roll out fleet health metrics and validation harnesses.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years in robotics, mechatronics, hardware test, or reliability engineering, with significant time on fielded hardware rather than lab prototypes.
• Genuinely hands-on instincts. You are comfortable at the bench with a soldering iron, multimeter, and calipers, and you can tear down, repair, and re-commission electromechanical assemblies without waiting on another team.
• An understanding of how actuators fail mechanically, including backlash, wear, preload loss, and end-stop damage, and the ability to connect physical evidence to design causes.
• Working knowledge of robot control: impedance and torque-controlled actuators, force-control parameters, and controller state lifecycles (boot, e-stop, reconnect).
• Strong Python for data analysis and tooling, plus solid time-series and signal-statistics instincts around noise floors, drift, persistence rules, and spotting when an alert is just a tiny denominator.
• Fluency with actuators and motor control: quasi-direct-drive systems, encoders, torque and current telemetry, CAN, and calibration and zeroing procedures.
• Experience with observability stacks (Datadog or similar) and git and PR-based workflows.
• Rigor about evidence. You distinguish measured from commanded and correlation from cause, and you will not ship a conclusion or set a baseline on contaminated data.
• A bias toward small, verifiable scope. You deliver the stated goal, flag adjacent issues once, and do not gold-plate.

Responsibilities

• Root-cause complex failures across the fleet.
• Work hands-on with the hardware.
• Design and build the mechanical pieces.
• Turn mechanical evidence into design changes.
• Build and roll out fleet health metrics.
• Develop calibration and test tooling.
• Wrangle robot telemetry at scale.
• Write things down and hand them off.
• Review PRs and propose fixes.

Skills

Hands-on hardware

Robotics control

Python data analysis

Telemetry/observability

Git & PR workflow

Evidence-based debugging

Actuators & mechanical insight

Soldering & repair

Tools

Datadog

Git

Job description

Dyna Robotics in Redwood City, CA seeks an engineer to own the health of our humanoid robot fleet, from root-cause analysis of hardware failures at the bench to building telemetry and tooling that catches degradation before downtime.

This is a hands-on role at the intersection of hardware, firmware, controls, and data infrastructure; you will repair, modify brackets, design fixtures, and roll out fleet health metrics and validation harnesses.