Field Robotics Technician

Summary

Join Scythe as a Field Robotics Technician and play a crucial role in maintaining our fleet of autonomous robots. This temp-to-hire position involves troubleshooting, repairing, and ensuring the health of our vehicles. You will collaborate with engineering and customer operations teams to maximize uptime. The role requires extensive travel (up to 50%) to customer sites and various facilities across KY/TN/Carolinas. A successful candidate will possess a diverse skillset in mechanical, electrical, and troubleshooting domains. This is a remote position with a 90-day evaluation period leading to a permanent role with benefits (if successful).

Requirements

• Experience as a jack of all trades with a well-rounded set of mechanical, electrical, and troubleshooting skills
• Experience working in an outdoor environment in adverse conditions
• Experience building, maintaining, and/or troubleshooting complex electro-mechanical systems including, but not limited to; PCBAs, actuators, GPS systems, industrial automation, etc
• Experience reading and interpreting electrical schematics
• Experience using complex tools such as an oscilloscope, voltmeter, precision inspection equipment (calipers, micrometers, etc), and/or software monitoring programs
• Candidates must be able to pass a medical DOT evaluation

Responsibilities

• Maintain our large fleet of autonomous vehicles including predictive, preventative, and corrective maintenance
• Actively monitor our entire fleet using live data streaming from the vehicles
• Recover vehicles to optimize customer's uptime should a vehicle in the field experience a failure
• Follow standard work procedures for maintenance activities and ensure they are completed in a timely fashion according to defined schedules
• Hands on support to troubleshoot, establish root cause, and perform the various types of maintenance activities required to keep the fleet healthy

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a Field Service environment traveling to various customer locations to provide firsthand troubleshooting and repairs
• Moderate to extensive work with diagnostic tools
• Moderate to extensive work and troubleshooting with electric or hybrid vehicles
• Moderate to advanced level PCBA and/or electrical troubleshooting
• Dashboard navigation using Tableau, Grafana, or similar

Benefits

Upon successful completion of the temp period, candidates may be offered a permanent role with benefits