Robotics Lab Hardware Specialist — Data-Collection Ops

Welo Data; Santa Clara (CA); Presencial; USD 50.000 - 61.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Welo Data is seeking a Hardware Lab Technician to own the physical side of a large-scale robot data collection operation in Santa Clara, CA. You will build, wire, and bring up data collection stations, and keep the fleet running with preventive maintenance and calibrations.

You’ll work hands-on with robot arms, multi-camera rigs, teleoperation hardware, and a broad array of sensors, while documenting procedures and supporting teleoperators during live collection.

Formación

• 3+ years hands-on technician experience in a lab, prototyping, or low-volume build environment — robotics, medical devices, aerospace, semiconductor equipment, or similar.
• AS in a technical field, a relevant trade or technical certificate, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Mechanical assembly fundamentals: fasteners and torque, bearings, belts, linkages, and the ability to read CAD drawings (Onshape, SolidWorks, or similar).
• Electrical hands: soldering including basic SMD rework, crimping and connectorization, harness building, and confident use of a multimeter and oscilloscope.
• Comfortable in Linux at the command line — SSH into a workstation, run a calibration script, read a log, and tell us what it said.
• Experience with motors, encoders, and sensor integration, and understanding of grounding and cable issues on data streams.
• Methodical and self-documenting. An undocumented fix is a future outage.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and frequent change, and able to prioritize when more than one lab needs attention.
• Able to work on-site in Santa Clara, with flexible shift coverage.

Responsabilidades

• Build, wire, and bring up data collection stations — robot arms, multi-camera rigs, workstations, teleoperation hardware, and cable management that survives daily operator use.
• Keep the fleet running: daily checks, preventive maintenance, calibration routines, and diagnosing faults on arms, hands, and sensors.
• Swap and integrate end-effectors and grippers, dexterous hands, force/torque and tactile sensors, and RGB-D cameras.
• Run calibration and firmware procedures across the fleet, and catch drift before it reaches the data.
• Assemble and iterate prototype hardware from engineers — printed parts, off-the-shelf components, vendor-fabricated parts, and custom harnesses.
• Soldering, crimping, connectorization, harness building, and PCB rework support at the bench.
• Own the lab's physical state: spares, inventory, bench and tool organization, shipping/returns/RMAs with vendors.
• Support teleoperators on hardware issues during live collection — triage fast, fix or elevate, and restore stations.
• Document what you do: build sheets, maintenance logs, calibration records, and hardware SOPs the next technician can follow.
• Help bring up new embodiments and new stations alongside engineers and researchers.

Conocimientos

Robotics hardware

Lab maintenance

Soldering

CAD reading

Linux CLI

Multimeter

Oscilloscope

On-site teamwork

Educación

AS or technical certificate

Herramientas

Onshape

SolidWorks

Descripción del empleo

Welo Data is seeking a Hardware Lab Technician to own the physical side of a large-scale robot data collection operation in Santa Clara, CA. You will build, wire, and bring up data collection stations, and keep the fleet running with preventive maintenance and calibrations.

You’ll work hands-on with robot arms, multi-camera rigs, teleoperation hardware, and a broad array of sensors, while documenting procedures and supporting teleoperators during live collection.