Robotics Technician

GRAM; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Benefits package

Equity

Job summary

GRAM is seeking a Robotics Technician to build, test, and service insectoid subsystems on-site in Palo Alto. You will convert engineering releases into physical hardware, perform wiring and harness work, and ensure build quality with thorough inspections.

You will diagnose discrepancies using drawings, schematics, and test data, performing rework and retest to restore conditions and improve processes. Strong hands-on skills and precise documentation are required.

Qualifications

• Experience assembling, testing, maintaining electromechanical hardware to documented requirements.
• Built or serviced complex electromechanical hardware from drawings and schematics.
• Proficient in torque-controlled fastening, crimping, soldering, wire identification, testing, and inspection.
• Used measurement and diagnostic equipment to accept or troubleshoot hardware.
• Documented nonconformances and supported corrective work with closure verification.

Responsibilities

• Assemble subsystems from drawings, BOMs, schematics, and revisions.
• Fabricate and test wiring harnesses, connectors, and sensors.
• Install instrumentation and operate meters, scopes, and test tools.
• Perform subsystem checkout, calibration support, and functional bring-up.
• Diagnose build discrepancies and escalate as needed.
• Execute approved rework and verify restored condition via retest.
• Maintain build travelers, traceability, and test records.

Skills

Mechanical assembly

Electrical workmanship

Torque fastening

Connector assembly

Soldering

Measurement & inspection

Use of test equipment

Tools

Multimeters

Oscilloscopes

Calipers

Micrometers

Bench power supplies

Data-acquisition systems

Job description

Robotics Technician

The Mission

GRAM is a self replication company creating populations of insectoids for the physical economy.

Our first research frontier is self-preservation: the base case of physical self-replication. Our machines will survive, coordinate, and recover without humans. We believe scalable machine labor requires more than single-agent task generality or machines shaped in our image.

About the role

You will build, wire, instrument, inspect, rework, service, and test insectoids and their subsystems. You will turn engineering releases into physical hardware, identify discrepancies before they become ambiguous machine failures, and maintain records connecting every test result to the actual article on the floor. You will execute controlled work across fasteners, connectors, harnesses, bearings, sensors, adhesives, and calibration artifacts; surface defects quickly; and use measurements and documented discrepancies to restore the required build condition and improve product and process.

What you will do

• Assemble mechanical and electromechanical subsystems from drawings, bills of material, schematics, work instructions, torque requirements, and controlled revisions.
• Fabricate, route, terminate, label, inspect, and test wiring harnesses, connectors, sensor leads, and low-voltage power or communication assemblies.
• Install instrumentation and operate multimeters, oscilloscopes, bench supplies, torque tools, force or displacement sensors, data-acquisition equipment, and dimensional inspection tools.
• Perform subsystem checkout, continuity and insulation checks, leak or motion checks where applicable, calibration support, functional test, and machine bring-up under approved procedures.
• Diagnose build and service discrepancies using direct inspection, measurements, drawings, schematics, logs, and known-good comparisons; escalate beyond technician authority.
• Execute approved rework, repair, maintenance, and part replacement, then verify the restored condition through documented inspection and retest.
• Maintain build travelers, serial and lot traceability, tool and equipment status, configuration records, discrepancy reports, photographs, test results, and as-built feedback.

Minimum qualifications

• Professional experience assembling, testing, maintaining, or servicing complex electromechanical hardware whose work was accepted against documented requirements.
• Built or serviced complex electromechanical hardware from controlled mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, bills of material, and written procedures.
• Demonstrated proficiency in mechanical assembly and electrical workmanship, including torque-controlled fastening, connector assembly, crimping, soldering, wire identification, continuity testing, and visual inspection.
• Used measurement and diagnostic equipment such as calipers, micrometers, multimeters, oscilloscopes, bench power supplies, torque tools, or data-acquisition systems to accept or troubleshoot hardware.
• Documented a nonconformance or build discrepancy, executed or supported controlled corrective work, and verified closure through inspection or functional retest.

Preferred experience

• Robotics, aerospace, automotive, medical-device, industrial-automation, or other low-volume complex hardware.
• Motor, gearbox, bearing, sensor, PCB, harness, battery, pneumatic, vacuum, adhesive, or precision-mechanism assembly and test.
• Prototype bring-up, environmental or lifecycle testing, machine-shop coordination, calibration systems, or configuration-controlled service work.

Additional requirements

This role requires regular movement around a robotics workspace and sustained hands-on work with tools, fixtures, test equipment, and powered electromechanical systems. You must follow required workspace controls, lockout or de-energization procedures, and personal protective equipment requirements.

The hourly wage range for this Palo Alto position is $40.00–$52.00 per hour. This position is hourly and non-exempt; overtime will be paid in accordance with applicable law. Health coverage, benefits, and generous equity come with the role. This role is on-site in Palo Alto. We review what you’ve shipped; if it’s the caliber we seek, interviews take about a week, start to finish. We treat your work and conversations with discretion.