Build with us.

About the role

Plugging a connector in once is easy. Doing it every time, testing it and recovering when it fails is the job.

You’re our first robotics hire. You’ll work with the founders on all of it: parts, fixtures, control code and testing.

Pay

$135,000–$165,000 USD per year + equity.

Responsibilities

• Hook up the arm, gripper, cameras, force sensor and test gear. Calibrate them and keep them in sync.
• Write the motion and contact control for lining up, pushing in and recovering.
• Design fingers, fixtures and part carriers, and get them made.
• Build the full run: part in, joint made, joint tested, and what happens when a step fails.
• Find out why things fail, from logs and measurements. Track cycle time, broken parts and how often a person steps in.
• Work with safety on guarding and interlocks, and with the learning engineer to run policies on the robot.

Experience

• You’ve built or commissioned a robot or automation station and can explain your choices.
• C++ and Python on Linux, including code that talks to hardware.
• Coordinate frames, calibration, motion control, and how a robot behaves when it touches things.
• You can chase a fault through mechanical, electrical and software, with measurements.

Useful experience

• Connector work, force-guided manipulation or factory commissioning.
• CAD and fixture design, industrial I/O, PLC integration or electrical test equipment.
• Robot SDKs, ROS 2 or running learned policies on hardware.

First project

Get one connector task running with a real pass/fail test and a recovery that works the same way each time. Then pick what to fix next.