Lead Robotics Technician: Build & Calibrate Robots

Genesis; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesis, a leading robotics company, is seeking a Senior Electromechanical Technician in San Francisco. You will be the first lead technician on the data collection floor and on the Enos production line, ensuring continuous operation, building units from scratch, and growing the technician team.

You will collaborate with engineers and the reliability team to diagnose issues, design fixtures, and document procedures.

Qualifications

• Five+ years as an electromechanical, robotics or test technician in a lab, pilot line or production environment.
• Ability to read assembly drawings, schematics and wiring diagrams and build from them.
• Experience building cables and fixtures: crimping, soldering, connector assembly, strain relief.
• Troubleshoot with instruments; comfortable at a Linux command line to read logs, restart services and run scripts.
• Experience calibrating or aligning robots, cameras or sensors and documenting cadence.
• Proven ability to document root causes and create lasting fixes.

Responsibilities

• Keep the collection floor running: diagnose, repair and maintain robot arms, hands, bases, cameras and wearables.
• Assemble and bring up Enos units for production: build from drawings, run end-of-line checks, maintain fleet.
• Set up stations and sites: build and reconfigure stations for deployments at partner/customer sites.
• Design and build fixtures, jigs, brackets and cable harnesses to drawing or own sketches.
• Run calibration and readiness checks on cadence and after repairs.
• Document root cause and collaborate with engineers for durable fixes.
• Keep records of units, serials, failures and parts in fleet maintenance system.
• Support engineers with real-robot testing, retrofits and hardware changes.
• Write repair procedures and calibration SOPs with photos for repeatability.
• Grow the team by training new technicians and setting work standards.

Skills

Assembly drawings

Schematics reading

Cabling & fixtures

Test instrumentation

Linux command line

Calibration procedures

Root cause analysis

Team leadership

Tools

Multimeter

Oscilloscope

Soldering

Job description

Genesis, a leading robotics company, is seeking a Senior Electromechanical Technician in San Francisco. You will be the first lead technician on the data collection floor and on the Enos production line, ensuring continuous operation, building units from scratch, and growing the technician team.

You will collaborate with engineers and the reliability team to diagnose issues, design fixtures, and document procedures.