HireArt is helping the world’s largest social network hire a versatile and passionate Robotics Lab Tech to take the operational responsibility of its fleet and perform maintenance.
In this role, you’ll work extremely closely with the company’s robot fleet and co-ordinate reliable operation/careful experimentation with a fast paced research team.
The ideal candidate has experience working with real world devices (e.g. data centers, assembly line, sensors, robots, etc.) and is able to maintain/debug real-world hardware and real-time data streams. You must be independent, self-motivated, well-organized, possess strong problem solving skills, and be able to multitask.
As a Robotics Lab Tech, you’ll:

• Take care of continuous operations, upkeep, and management of the robot fleet and robotics lab.
• Design and, and perform real-time tracking of, health and utility metrics of the robot fleet.
• Monitor test runs and recover “unresponsive” clients.
• Detect, analyze and mitigate operational bottlenecks.
• Detect, analyze and mitigate hardware failures.
• Improve development, automation and failures.
• Perform issue duplication and isolation.
• Support system debug work.
• Setup and carefully execute experiments as requested by the research
• team.
• Read, analyze, summarize, and submit experimentation logs to the
• team.
• Perform robot teleoperation to collect expert data.
• Perform device and driver integration, upkeep, and upgrades.
• Perform sensor and robot calibration.
• Perform system upgrades.
• Assist with validation and verification of new hardware platforms.

Benefits:

• Pre-tax commuter benefits (through [Alice](https://www.thisisalice.com/))
• $25/month student loan contribution (through [Goodly](https://www.goodlyapp.com/) if applicable)
• Employer (HireArt) Subsidized healthcare benefits (with [Sequoia](https://www.sequoia.com/app/))
• Flexible Spending Account for healthcare-related costs
• HireArt covers all costs for short and long term disability and life insurance
• 401k package through [Human Interest](https://humaninterest.com/)
• Comfort working with Linux-OS
• Some experience with scripting in Python
• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related engineering experience
• Proficiency working with laboratory equipments
• A positive attitude towards challenges and solving complex problems

Preferred requirements:

• 1 year experience working with real world devices and data streams or equivalent
• Experience working with robots
• Skill writing scripts to gather and process data
• Skills to gather data with tele operation
• Skill to maintain robots and data pipelines
• Skill to gather, process, and summarize experimental data and results

Commitment: This is a full-time, 12-month contract position staffed via HireArt and based in Pittsburgh, PA. It will be fully remote until offices reopen and is available to candidates local to the Pittsburgh area.
HireArt values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas or employ corp-to-corp.