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Job Description

We are a mission-driven, venture-backed team building artificial intelligence that enables service robots to collaborate with people. As a Field Services Technician, you will play a critical role in maintaining our robotic fleet and ensuring operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct routine and incident maintenance for our Robot Fleet.
  • Provide support of Root Cause Analysis for major incidents in the Field.
  • Provide timely repairs and decrease the time our Robots are out of production.
  • Report on critical team metrics such as mean time to repair and first contact resolution rate.

Requirements

  • Local to Chicago, IL and able to travel within designated region.
  • Less than 80% travel for site inspections and repairs escalated to engineering.
  • Read and understand manufacturing work instructions, mechanical assembly drawings and electrical schematics.
  • Work with electrical and mechanical tools including digital multimeter and soldering tools.
  • Comfortable with basic command line tools.
  • Ability to become vendor credentialed with partner hospitals.
  • 3+ years of work experience with commercially available products.
  • Technical experience necessary to troubleshoot complex robotic systems.
  • Ability to execute high quality work without supervision in the field.
  • Strong work ethic, organizational and communication skills.
  • Must be a US citizen or permanent resident with work authorization.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Part-time position with weekend coverage.
  • Starting hourly rate is $25/hr.
  • Typical schedule: Friday 4pm-9pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, Sunday 9am-5pm.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO
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How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 36% below the $39/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, where the middle half runs $31–$50/hr across 69 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 7% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Chicago, IL

We're tracking 91 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 50 different employers. 33 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 352 other active welding openings from 205 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, or widen the search to Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Gerber Collision & Glass (17), Staff on Site (13), and S&C Electric Company (10). 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 $39/hr, Elk Grove Village at $34/hr, and Franklin Park at $33/hr. Chicago is among them.

Similar openings near Chicago, IL

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