Multi-Site 3D Printer Technician

Physical Intelligence; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Physical Intelligence in San Francisco seeks a dedicated 3D Printer Technician to own additive manufacturing for the Robotics Technician Team. You will manage the print queue, operate and maintain all team printers across locations, and stock printed spare parts to minimize downtime.

You will run maintenance schedules, calibrate machines, and collaborate with hardware engineers and technicians to ensure prints meet drawings and timelines.

Qualifications

• Additive Manufacturing Experience: 2+ years running FDM printers in a production, lab, or service environment, including maintenance and repair, not just operation.
• Slicer Fluency: Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, Cura, or equivalent. Able to build and tune a profile from scratch and explain why each setting is where it is.
• CAD Literacy: Able to open a CAD model, check a dimension, repair a mesh, and adjust a tolerance for print.
• Mechanical Skillset: Comfortable with calipers, heat set inserts, threaded hardware, and inspecting parts to a drawing.
• Multi-Site Coverage: Comfortable splitting time between locations and owning printer uptime at sites you are not at every day.
• Detail Oriented: Holds parts to a standard and tracks what went wrong when a print fails.
• Strong Communication: Clear written queue updates and failure reports, and direct cross-functional communication with hardware engineers, prototype technicians, and robot service technicians.

Responsibilities

• Own the print request queue in Linear. Every request carries the part, revision, quantity, material, requester, and need-by date.
• Prioritize the queue with robot downtime first and production builds second.
• Confirm each request points at a released Onshape model before printing, and route undocumented parts back to the requester.
• Post daily queue status: printing now, next up, blocked, and expected ready times.
• Run every printer the team owns, at every location: slicing, bed preparation, starts, monitoring, part removal, and failed print recovery.
• Build and run a preventive maintenance schedule for every printer at every location and log every PM.
• Diagnose and repair printer failures at any location, and keep a spares kit at each site so a down printer is back in service the same day.
• Move between locations on a set cadence for PMs, repairs, and calibration, and respond to printer outages wherever they happen.
• Track and report printer uptime by location monthly.

Skills

Additive Manufacturing Experience

Slicer Fluency

CAD Literacy

Mechanical Skillset

Multi-Site Coverage

Detail Oriented

Strong Communication

Tools

Bambu Studio

PrusaSlicer

Cura

Onshape

Linear

Job description

Physical Intelligence in San Francisco seeks a dedicated 3D Printer Technician to own additive manufacturing for the Robotics Technician Team. You will manage the print queue, operate and maintain all team printers across locations, and stock printed spare parts to minimize downtime.

You will run maintenance schedules, calibrate machines, and collaborate with hardware engineers and technicians to ensure prints meet drawings and timelines.