Job description

Starship Technologies is revolutionizing deliveries with autonomous robots. These robots are designed to deliver food, groceries, and packages across college campuses and neighborhoods in minutes. Starship has now completed millions of autonomous deliveries to date, traveled millions of miles and is currently doing more than 140k road crossings each day. Our contribution to society includes reducing congestion, and pollution, providing zero-emissions deliveries, increasing the quality of life for residents, empowering seniors and disabled people, and enabling affordable delivery for local businesses.

We’re hitting records on an almost weekly basis. Now is an exciting time to join as we grow rapidly around the world!

We are now looking for a Robot Technician who will provide in-depth technical support for our robots as well as to our operators, handlers and partners. You will also execute start-of-day or end-of-day charging and cleaning of the robot fleet.

You will know everything there is to know about our Starship robots and will be able to fix any technical problems they encounter – even if it requires flying it to the other side of the world for the day!

A successful candidate will have:

• A passion for robots and innovative technologies.
• Previous experience in managing a large fleet of devices.
• Knowledge of Unix, SSH /Linux systems, CLI tools and scripting.
• Previous experience in Technical Support and with any service desk application.
• Good knowledge regarding mechanics, electronics and IT.
• Proven work experience in enterprise technical support, IT support or as a technical engineer.
• Ability to use hand and power tools.
• Excellent client-facing skills and active listening skills.
• Ability to travel. May need to travel up to 20% of your time as part of your regular duties to assist as we expand launching new Universities.
• Ability to multitask and liaise with professionals in different fields.
• Ability to explain problems simply and clearly.

Operational Service Tasks:

• 15% Responsible for operational service. You will be accountable for the morning roll-out of robots to service areas, or the end-of-day sanitation and ensuring robots are cleaned and charging.
• 10% Observing robots remotely and being ready to assist robots in unexpected situations (accidents, field and Unforeseen failures). Reading repair manuals and liaising with other professionals. Report any issues to the onsite team and create a failure ticket.
• 5% Transporting the robot to delivery areas by ebike or foot (which may include some occasional lifting of up to 70 lbs).

Technical Tasks:

• 40% Focus on maintaining the health of the robots through daily repairs and troubleshooting (Mechanical, electrical and electronics). Monitoring and servicing systems, diagnosing problems and troubleshooting equipment, running tests and completing reports, updating and improving existing systems, and repairing or replacing faulty equipment (tires, electronics, motors).
• 20% Carrying out maintenance activities and upgrades on robots and chargers.
• 10% Maintaining our hub-based warehouse and conducting regular inventories.

Physical requirements:

• Office work.
• Movement ability to frequent usage of wrists, hands and finger dexterity to movements such as constant typing.
• Occasional lifting of items with weight up to 70 lbs.

Vaccination is a vital tool to reduce the presence and severity of COVID-19 cases in the workplace, in communities, and in the nation as a whole. Starship Technologies “Starship” has adopted this policy on mandatory vaccination to safeguard the health of our US employees, and those traveling to the US for Starship related work purposes, from the hazard of COVID-19. All employees covered by this policy are required to be fully vaccinated as a term and condition of employment at Starship.

Ready to join our Starship fleet? Apply today!

Only candidates who send resumes will be considered. Please include your availability when applying. Early application is encouraged.

Check out our website to find out more about us:https://www.starship.xyz

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $20.00 - $24.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

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