Warp Sciences
Member of Technical Staff - Robotics Hardware
South San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of cradle-to-grave hardware design experience; preferably across multiple engineering domains.
About the job
Designs and implements robotics and automation hardware that enables autonomous scientific workflows in chemistry labs.
What you'll do
- Design and build mechanisms, end effectors, workcells, and custom machines for laboratory automation.
- Build physical data collection systems and define the scope and trade-offs of robotic systems with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Manage vendors and outside design resources as needed.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of cradle-to-grave hardware design experience; robotics experience is not required.
- Hands-on mechanical intuition and a track record of delivering complex hardware projects that work in the real world.
- Strong debugging skills across integrated electrical, mechanical, and software systems.
- Strong mechanical design, engineering, manufacturing, and vendor-management fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Robotics hardware experience, including mechanisms, actuators, sensors, and robotics hardware or firmware.
- Experience with physical AI data collection, AI-trained policies, electronics or custom PCBs, reliability and functional safety, or chemistry and biotech.
Tools
FEA, Claude/Codex, CAD, 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC machining, sheetmetal, injection molding
AI focus
Build automation infrastructure for autonomous science; work with AI researchers and account for AI-trained policies when designing physical systems.
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