Back to Jobs

Job Description

Overview

LightSpeed Build Technologies is revolutionizing the construction industry through AI-powered robotics, focusing on automated systems for wall panel manufacturing and on-site construction. The Robotics Technician will play a crucial role in building and modifying robotic systems to enhance homebuilding efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Modify and retrofit tools and equipment for robotic control.
  • Install and wire sensors, switches, actuators, and I/O; route and terminate cabling.
  • Assemble, align, and calibrate robot cells, tooling, and fixtures.
  • Troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical faults on arms and tooling.
  • Work safely around energized and moving equipment.
  • Document machine states and changes, including redlining schematics.
  • Establish preventive maintenance routines and spare parts lists.
  • Support demos and test runs end to end.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Hands-on trade experience in a mechanical or technical field.
  • Confident with hand and power tools, drilling, and tapping.
  • Fluent with metrology tools like calipers and micrometers.
  • Ability to read mechanical drawings and follow tolerances.
  • Knowledge of safe practices around industrial equipment.
  • Strong diagnostic skills for troubleshooting machinery.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and change.
  • Clear communication skills, including documentation.

Additional Information

  • On-site at Northbrook, IL facility, 5 days/week.
  • Shop environment with noise, sawdust, and moving machinery.
  • Regularly lift and carry up to 50 lbs; stand, kneel, and climb for a full shift.
  • Occasional evenings or weekends ahead of demos and milestones.
Apply for This Position

How this job compares in Northbrook, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $31/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $33/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois, whose middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 254 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 48% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Northbrook, IL

Northbrook, IL currently has 4 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 2 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 354 other active welding openings from 213 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Northbrook, or widen the search to Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), Gerber Collision & Glass (12), and S&C Electric Company (9). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $38/hr, Itasca at $36/hr, and Addison at $35/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Northbrook, IL

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Robotics Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.