Technical Lab Manager - Robotics R&D, Frontier AI & Robotics

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor technicians, manage lab priorities, safety, equipment, inventory, vendors, and machine shop operations.
• Oversee robotic hardware assembly, integration, validation, troubleshooting, failure analysis, and test-fixture development.
• Develop assembly procedures, test protocols, technical documentation, and manufacturability and testability feedback for engineering teams.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in robotics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on robotic systems integration experience, including actuators, sensors, and embedded systems.
• 3+ years leading and mentoring technical teams in laboratory or prototype development environments.
• Proficiency in hardware troubleshooting and root cause analysis using diagnostic equipment.

Nice to have

• 10+ years in robotics hardware development, hardware integration, or related work.
• Experience with high degree of freedom robotic systems and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

Pay

$150,000/year to $300,000/year (base salary)

Tools

oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, signal analyzers, CAN, EtherCAT, RS-485, HIL testing

AI focus

Supports research and deployment of frontier foundation models and end-to-end learned robotic systems; the role focuses on hardware integration and validation.