3D Printing Lab Technician

About the Team

The OpenAI Robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors. We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the constraints of physical systems to improve peoples’ lives.
About the Role

As the Robotics 3D Printing Lab Technician, you will own the day-to-day operation of our additive manufacturing lab and help enable rapid hardware iteration across the robotics organization. You’ll manage and maintain a fleet of 3D printers, develop workflows for engineers to submit and track builds, and ensure high-quality prototype parts are delivered quickly and reliably.

You will partner closely with mechanical, electrical, and prototype engineering teams to support fast-paced robotics development. Beyond additive manufacturing, you will also contribute as a hands-on prototype technician supporting builds, rework, subsystem integration, and general lab operations across robotic systems.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires in-person presence 5 days a week.
In this role, you will:

• Lead operation, maintenance, and calibration of a fleet of 3D printers supporting robotics prototyping efforts

• Develop and maintain workflows for print submission, prioritization, tracking, and delivery across engineering teams

• Prepare, process, and optimize print jobs across a variety of additive manufacturing technologies and materials

• Perform post-processing operations including support removal, finishing, bonding, machining, dyeing, and assembly preparation

• Inspect completed parts for dimensional accuracy, cosmetic quality, and print integrity before delivery to engineers

• Partner with engineering teams to provide guidance on material selection, print orientation, tolerancing, and manufacturability

• Manage inventory of printing materials, consumables, spare parts, and maintenance supplies to ensure high printer uptime

• Support rapid prototyping workflows by assisting with mechanical builds, subsystem integration, and general prototype technician work

• Troubleshoot machine, process, and print quality issues across additive manufacturing workflows

• Help maintain a clean, organized, safe, and highly functional prototyping environment

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have deep hands-on experience with additive manufacturing systems and enjoy building reliable workflows around physical hardware

• Are highly organized and comfortable managing many concurrent prototype requests in fast-paced environments

• Understand tradeoffs between different printing technologies, materials, tolerances, and post-processing methods

• Enjoy hands-on technical work and are comfortable supporting a broad range of prototype and build activities

• Maintain a high bar for craftsmanship, lab discipline, and part quality

Preferred qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience operating additive manufacturing systems in prototyping, robotics, product development, or manufacturing environments

• Experience with a variety of 3D printing technologies such as FDM, SLA, SLS, MJF, or PolyJet

• Familiarity with additive manufacturing materials, post-processing methods, and prototype finishing techniques

• Experience supporting hardware engineering teams in fast-paced development environments

• Familiarity with general electromechanical assembly, prototype builds, or robotics hardware systems

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

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