Field Robotics Technician

Summary

Join Scythe as a Field Robotics Technician and play a crucial role in maintaining our fleet of autonomous robots. This is a remote position requiring up to 50% travel to customer sites, HQ, and satellite facilities. You will be responsible for vehicle troubleshooting, repair, and ensuring customer vehicle health. The role starts as a temporary position with a 90-day evaluation period leading to a permanent role with benefits. You will work closely with manufacturing, engineering, and customer operations teams. Scythe offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits package.

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

• Comprehensive salary
• Equity
• Benefit package