Prototyping Lab Technician, Robotics

Join OpenAI's Robotics team as a Prototyping Lab Technician, working on cutting-edge robotics hardware and collaborating with engineers to develop and iterate on robotic systems in San Francisco. OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products.

• •Partner closely with engineers, researchers, and other members of the robotics team to support prototype development, experimentation, and hardware iteration.
• •Build, modify, troubleshoot, and repair robotic systems and electromechanical assemblies spanning structural, electrical, sensing, and actuation subsystems.
• •Design and fabricate fixtures, adapters, test equipment, and other prototype hardware that accelerate development efforts.
• •Execute low-volume builds, engineering changes, and rework activities across robotic systems, including mechanical assemblies, wire harnesses, and custom electronics.
• •Develop, execute, and support hardware experiments in partnership with engineering teams.
• •Build and rework wire harnesses, custom electronics, and other prototype hardware used in robotic systems.
• •Maintain lab equipment, tooling, inventory, and workspaces.
• •Develop and refine processes that improve build quality, repeatability, documentation, and overall lab efficiency.
• •Use software tools to configure hardware, collect data, document work, and interact with robotic systems.
• •Identify technical risks, challenge assumptions when appropriate, and provide feedback that improves hardware reliability, manufacturability, and experimental quality.