# Project Hydra | Hardware Technician - Robotics Lab

**Company**: Welocalize
**Location**: California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 40-40 per-hour-wage
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Hardware Lab Technician to own the physical side of a large-scale robot data collection operation. You'll keep the fleet running, build what's next, and be the person the lab calls when something stops working.

This is a hands-on role across research and low-volume production where embodiments, grippers, and camera rigs change fast,and the hardware has to keep up. Day-to-day teleoperation is handled by a dedicated operator team you support; you maintain what they run on and help ensure data quality through reliable, well-calibrated hardware.

**Responsibilities**

- 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 coming out of our mechanical and electrical 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 and consumables inventory, parts kitting, bench and tool organization, and shipping, returns, and RMAs with vendors.

- Support teleoperators on hardware issues during live collection , triage fast, fix or escalate, and get the station back up.

- 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.

**Requirements**

- 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 and mechanical 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 an understanding of what a bad ground or a marginal cable does to a data stream.

- 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 you at the same time.

- Able to work on-site in Santa Clara, with flexibility on shift coverage as the labs run extended hours.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Humanoid or bimanual platforms (Unitree, Fourier, ALOHA/ARX-class rigs) and dexterous hands.

- Maintenance and calibration on collaborative or industrial arms , UR, Franka, xArm, ARX, or equivalent.

- Multi-camera rig build and calibration; RealSense, ZED, or Orbbec-class depth cameras.

- Running and maintaining FDM or SLA printers, and designing your own simple fixtures and adapters.

- Light scripting in Python or bash to automate a repetitive bench or calibration task.

- Experience in a high-throughput lab or production line where uptime or yield was a number someone tracked.

- Vendor-facing experience: RMAs, lead times, and spares planning.

**Additional Information**

- Rate: $40 per hour

- Employment type: Full-time W-2

- Shifts: Monday–Friday, 7AM - 3:30PM or 9AM - 5:30PM

- Start Date: ASAP

- Contract Duration: 12-month contract with possibility of extension

## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- Python
- bash
- mechanical assembly
- electrical engineering
- soldering
- crimping
- connectorization
- harness building
- PCB rework
- multimeter
- oscilloscope
- motors
- encoders
- sensor integration

### Nice to have
- humanoid platforms
- bimanual platforms
- dexterous hands
- collaborative arms
- industrial arms
- multi-camera rigs
- depth cameras
- 3D printing
- scripting

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