Senior Technician, Robotics

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Scale's Robotics business is rapidly expanding, supporting customers building physical AI. This position will be a key contributor in supporting data collection production in our San Francisco Robotics Lab and prototyping new embodiments. This is a first-of-its-kind role at Scale, and you will have the opportunity to advance Scale's robotics offerings.

What it asks for · 7

• Develop technical domain expertise in areas of 2D and 3D imaging and annotation, multi-sensor fusion and calibration, GPS/INS navigation systems, computer vision, and other autonomy-adjacent concepts.
• Academic (Bachelor's degree) or industry experience — Engineering background, preferably in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other Engineering fields.
• 5+ years of experience in hardware labs or a manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on experience in Robotics, AI, and/or Computer Vision.
• Intellectual curiosity, empathy, and ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy.
• Experience building and/or maintaining lab networks and data pipelines.
• Experience in logistics.

Also a plus

• Experience developing with Python, C++, Java and/or other scripting languages.
• Intellectual curiosity, empathy, and ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy.
• Experience building and/or maintaining lab networks and data pipelines.
• Experience running large-scale data collection and controlled experiments.
• Experience in logistics.
• Lean Six Sigma certification or experience.

Degree language

• Academic (Bachelor's degree) or industry experience — Engineering background, preferably in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other Engineering fields.
• Intellectual curiosity, empathy, and ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• experience9×
• lab7×
• robotics5×
• robots4×
• technical4×
• and/or3×
• data collection3×
• operations3×
• supporting3×
• building2×
• collection hardware2×
• computer vision2×
• cross-functional2×
• degree2×
• effectively2×
• engineering2×

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