Senior Engineering Technician - Bot Prototype - Rippling

We’re creating an entirely new way to solve the most ubiquitous problem in industry - moving and storing material. We’re applying robotics and distributed software to create a new class of product for this $1T market. We’re focused on the supply chain industry first. The industry is in a massive bind with the continued growth of e-commerce, sharp rise in costs, and supply chain disruptions. What has been a “sleepy” industry for decades is now at the epicenter of sustaining the global economy.

About the role

As a senior Engineering Technician on Mytra's Bot Prototype team, you'll own our hardest prototype builds and repairs end-to-end, the ones with incomplete or evolving work instructions, multi-domain failures, and real ambiguity. Our team builds, maintains, and repairs the fleet of prototype bots, subassemblies, and test assets that let Engineering validate designs quickly, and we need an experienced, self-directed technician who can drive builds to completion, diagnose what others can't, and turn what they learn on the bench into better designs. This is not a role for someone who wants to drive the same bolt every day. Designs change mid-build, parts arrive with quality issues that block progress, and priorities shift week to week. The strongest candidates are energized by that, work independently across systems, and raise the whole team's game as they go.

What you’ll do:

• Own end-to-end mechanical assembly, wire harness build-up, and rework of complex prototype systems, often with incomplete or evolving instructions, first-article quality issues, and significant ambiguity.
• Diagnose non-routine, multi-domain failures across mechanical, electrical, and software interfaces; perform root-cause analysis and identify systemic patterns affecting hardware reliability.
• Translate build and rework findings into structured, actionable design feedback, and partner with Design Engineering to shape revisions toward easier assembly, manufacturability, and serviceability.
• Produce technical documentation and work instructions from first principles so builds and rework can be repeated reliably by the team.
• Lead validation and bring-up on bot hardware, planning and running procedures with limited engineer oversight and reporting results cleanly.
• Use machine and shop tools (drill press, band saw, chop saw, grinders, rotary tools; manual mill/lathe a plus) to fabricate, modify, and rework parts as builds require.
• Mentor junior technicians, share technical learnings, and help set the bar for build quality across the team.
• Work independently across systems, exercising judgment on when to solve and when to escalate, and help keep the lab safe, organized, and well-equipped.

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