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 the robotic fleet and ensuring operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

  • Local to Los Angeles, CA 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 such as digital multimeters 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.

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.

How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 43% below the $44/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA, where the middle half runs $36–$67/hr across 51 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 6% 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 Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 87 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 49 different employers. 19 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 486 other active welding openings from 233 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (35), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (17), and Relativity Space (14). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Long Beach at $49/hr, El Segundo at $48/hr, and Los Angeles at $44/hr. Los Angeles is among them.

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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.