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Overview

ARIX Technologies is a venture-backed robotics company based in Houston, Texas, specializing in robotic crawlers for infrastructure inspection. They are seeking a Senior Robotics Technician to manage fleet readiness and support the manufacturing of inspection robots.

Responsibilities

  • Own fleet readiness, including equipment status, location, configuration, spares, calibration, and preventive maintenance.
  • Manage the Manufacturing support queue: prioritize issues, troubleshoot failures, coordinate escalations, and document resolution.
  • Perform pre- and post-job inspections and verify robots are ready to deploy.
  • Build robots, modules, and perform upgrades from drawings, schematics, work instructions, and BOMs.
  • Load firmware, calibrate systems, and perform acceptance testing; troubleshoot failures with Engineering.
  • Identify recurring problems, implement corrective actions, and improve work instructions and inspection procedures.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on technician experience with complex electromechanical equipment in robotics, aerospace, automation, medical devices, or a similar environment.
  • Strong mechanical and electrical assembly skills, including precision fastening, crimping, soldering, wiring harnesses, and PCBA handling.
  • Ability to read engineering drawings, BOMs, schematics, and work instructions and troubleshoot using diagnostic tools and controlled testing.
  • Comfortable using software-based testing and diagnostic tools to run automated scripts, remotely access equipment, and interpret live data.
  • Experience maintaining equipment and accurate service, calibration, inventory, or preventive-maintenance records.
  • Ability to prioritize work independently, document results, and communicate clearly with Engineering and Operations.
  • Proficiency with Excel, Word, Outlook, and ticketing and documentation tools like Jira.
  • Ability to work on your feet and safely lift and move up to 50 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Benefits

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

Additional Information

  • This role does not require regular travel.
  • Most of the work is done indoors in an air-conditioned warehouse workspace.

Benefits

Salary
PTO
401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $51/hr, this posting sits about 59% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX — toward the top of a $23–$41/hr middle band drawn from 92 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 87% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Houston, TX

We're tracking 344 other active welding openings in Houston, TX right now, from 194 different employers. 138 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,245 other active welding openings from 548 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Houston, or widen the search to Texas.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (39), Zachry Group (30), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (22). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Old Sixth Ward at $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Dallas at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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