Hardware Technician

reflexrobotics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflex Robotics is building affordable robotic systems in the United States and is seeking Senior and Lead Hardware Technicians to join the team. You will perform hardware upgrades, prototype locally, manage inventory and quality, and collaborate with engineering to resolve issues.

The role requires careful shop maintenance and clear updates to the team. Join a small, fast-moving startup where high ownership and equity are offered; occasional travel to customer sites is expected, and a strong

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with hand tools, power tools, and common shop tools.
• Self-starter, organized and reliable.
• Able to work independently and in teams.
• Able to read and follow assembly instructions.
• Authorized to work in USA; ideally lives in SF proper.

Responsibilities

• Perform hardware upgrades to robots
• Rapid prototyping for local team
• Inventory Management and Quality Control
• Resolve issues with Engineering team
• Maintain an organized shop
• Create detailed written & verbal team updates
• Occasionally travel to customer sites (Driver's license strongly preferred)

Skills

Hand tools mastery

Self-starter

Organization

Independent work

Read assembly instructions

Tools

Mill

Lathe

Welding

Job description

Company Overview

Reflex Robotics is building affordable ($10k) wheeled humanoid robots to automate dangerous and repetitive tasks in manufacturing and logistics.

We envision a future where intelligent robots are doing all kinds of boring work that people hate doing-loading chicken nuggets into Costco boxes, lifting forty pound bags of dog food at Petco stores, and cleaning up cranberry juice spills in your apartment.

We are a three-year-old startup backed by Khosla Ventures, with $60M/year of revenue lined up pending successful pilots with e-commerce warehouses in 2025.

How Does It Work?

Our robots are designed and built entirely in-house by an engineering team that led development of the Stretch robot at Boston Dynamics and key systems on the Tesla Model S, X, and Y production lines. Reflex robots are high-performance, low-inertia, and optimized for low-cost manufacturing.

We’ve built the best real-time teleoperation system in the world, allowing a remote operator in South America to “play a video game” to control our robots at human-level speeds. This has allowed us to already ship robots with positive unit economics, and enables us to create a powerful human-intervention + RL product feedback loop.

Our system allows us to collect high-quality demonstrations at scale-giving us the proprietary data engine needed to train increasingly capable AI systems. We're on track to build the largest robotics dataset in the world, which will serve as an important long-term advantage.

Key Company Beliefs

High-quality, proprietary robotics data is the next foundation for generational AI companies (like Tesla FSD and ChatGPT).

Being nerd-sniped by maximizing an engineering metric is way less important than solving our customers' biggest pain points.

An insane work ethic is required for outsized success-and you'll be rewarded for it.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for Senior and Lead Hardware Technicians to join our team. Think Formula One pit crew, but for next-gen robotics. You'll be the go-to problem solver, fixer, and tuner for our machines. Some roles are filled, but we are growing and will hire more people for these roles.

We're still a small team-which means high ownership, high equity, and the chance to shape the product from the ground up.

What will you do

• Perform hardware upgrades to robots
• Rapid prototyping for local team
• Inventory Management and Quality Control
• Resolve issues with Engineering team
• Maintain an organized shop
• Create detailed written & verbal team updates
• Occasionally travel to customer sites (Driver's license strongly preferred)

Required Skills

• Extensive experience with hand tools, power tools, and common shop tools!!!
• Must be a self-starter, organized, and reliable
• Efficient working independently and in collaborative environments.
• Carefully read, follow, and update assembly instructions
• Optional: Operate Mill, Lathe, WeldAuthorized to work in USA (Ideally lives in SF proper)

You'd be joining a company that already has a solid core business-with working hardware, delighted customers, and profitable unit economics. Reflex is de-risked enough to see the hazy outlines of success, but still small enough that there's enormous upside up for grabs.