Senior Hardware Technician – Robotics, High Equity & Impact

Reflex Robotics, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflex Robotics in New York is building affordable wheeled humanoid robots aimed at automating dangerous and repetitive tasks in manufacturing and logistics. You will join a small, high-ownership team and serve as the go-to problem solver, fixer, and tuner for our machines.

We value strong hands-on hardware skills, a willingness to travel to customer sites, and the ability to work independently within a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with hand tools, power tools, and common shop tools.
• Self-starter, organized and reliable.
• Ability to read and follow assembly instructions.
• Driver's license and willingness to travel to customer sites.

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 and verbal updates
• Occasionally travel to customer sites

Skills

Hand tools

Power tools

Shop skills

Self-starting

Organization

Team collaboration

Read assembly instructions

Tools

Mill

Lathe

Weld

Job description

Company Overview

Reflex Robotics builds general-purpose, AI-powered humanoid robots for the toughest jobs in industry.

We’re focused on jobs that are genuinely hard on the human body: lifting 40-pound bags of dog food, loading boxes for an entire shift, and moving heavy materials from floor to high overhead shelves. Not just lightweight tasks in controlled environments. Actual, back-breaking work.

Factory and warehouse work demands more. The hardware needs strength, reach, precision, speed, and the battery life to be useful across multiple shifts. It also needs to deliver a clear return today, not in some hypothetical future. Our robot costs $32K at development volumes today.

We build the full robot stack ourselves, from cameras and compute to actuators, electronics, and software. Our custom-built supervision stack helps handle the hard parts of deployment, from real floor variability to keeping work moving without line disruption. That supervision also generates proprietary real-world data that helps improve autonomy over time.

We are a four year old startup backed by Khosla Ventures and a team of other great investors. Our team includes alumni from Anduril, Oculus, Amazon, Waymo, Skydio, Boston Dynamics, ASML, MIT, Jane Street, and Joby Aviation.

Key Company Beliefs

• We are obsessed with shipping robots.

• A humanoid robot is only valuable if it solves a real customer problem. Cool demos are fun, but reliable work is what matters.

• Low cost is what makes widespread deployment possible.

• High-quality, proprietary robotics data is the foundation of the next generation of physical AI.

• Getting nerd-sniped by an engineering metric is way less important than solving our customers’ biggest pain points.

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, Weld

• Authorized 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.

Come Join Us

This is a rare opportunity to help build a flagship robotics company from the ground up—and to do work that will truly matter, reshaping what people believe is possible in robotics.

We love to see the things you’ve worked on. Have a portfolio or insane project you’ve worked on? Share it. We’re looking for people who push past the status quo, are passionate at work and in their own time—we’re looking for people who want to win.