Member of Technical Staff, Hardware

About Baseline

Open source revolutionised how we write software, but its impact on robotics stays limited due to expensive hardware accessible only to well-funded labs. We run that hardware as shared infrastructure for the broader community, billed only for active compute. For a given task, policies are evaluated under similar conditions, giving researchers common ground for fair comparisons.

• Design the mechanical and electrical layout of each station, from arm mounting to cable routing.
• Integrate actuators, grippers, cameras, and sensors into one calibrated station.
• Produce CAD, fabricate or source parts, and bring station revisions from drawing to hardware.
• Build maintenance, calibration, and diagnostics keeping stations comparable across the fleet.
• Trace a fault to its mechanical, electrical, or assembly root cause, and fix the next build.

• Experience building and debugging robot hardware against real-world behaviour.
• Fluency in CAD and comfort with mechanical and electrical design, sensing, and actuation.
• Calibration, tolerance, and repeatability designed in from the start.
• Comfort on a lab floor, hands on hardware, iterating a failing station to a functional one.

• Location:
  
  Zurich, Switzerland, on-site 5 days a week.
• Annual salary: CHF 105,.
• Every full-time hire receives stock options as part of the stated salary.

Final date to receive applications:
None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.