ABOUT LIGHTSPEED
LightSpeed Build Technologies is revolutionizing the construction industry through AI-powered robotics. Our flagship systems—BRUTE for automated wall panel manufacturing and DEX for on-site collaborative construction—are addressing the global housing crisis by delivering unprecedented speed, precision, and affordability in homebuilding.
POSITION OVERVIEW
We're an early-stage venture, building an automated physical system driven by robotic arms, live sensing, and a real-time software layer. We're past the idea stage and moving fast toward a working demo.
We need a technician who can build, modify, and fix the physical machine. Our cells are custom and changing weekly, so the work is rarely "replace the part per the manual." It's taking a commercial nailer and making it something a robot can drive, mounting and wiring sensors onto equipment never designed for them, and figuring out why an arm is binding at the same point every cycle. Precision matters: a fixture that's a millimeter off or a mount that drifts under load shows up as a failed panel downstream. You'll work directly with the engineers designing the system, and you'll usually be the first person to find out something doesn't work.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
- Modify and retrofit tools and equipment so they can be driven by our control system - fabricating brackets and mounts, cutting, drilling, tapping, adapting pneumatics, adding actuation to tools that shipped as handheld
- Install and wire sensors, switches, actuators, and I/O; route and terminate cabling; build and label harnesses that survive a production cell
- Assemble, align, and calibrate robot cells, tooling, and fixtures as new builds come up; measure and verify that what you built matches what was drawn, and make mechanical adjustments as designs change
- Troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, and electrical faults on arms, tooling, and conveyance - isolate the root cause, fix what you can, and hand engineering a clear, specific description of what you found
- Work safely around energized and moving equipment: apply lockout/tagout before service, use appropriate PPE, and speak up when a guard, e-stop, or procedure isn't right
- Keep the machine's real state documented - redline schematics and drawings as things change, label what you build, record measurements, and log fixes so the next person isn't starting from zero
- Help stand up our preventive maintenance routine and spare parts list from scratch, and support demos and test runs end to end
- Other duties as assigned - this is an early-stage team and the work shifts
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Hands-on trade experience - mechanic, millwright, maintenance tech, fabricator, machinist, automotive/equipment tech, or similar, in a real physical setting
- Fabrication and mechanical work - confident with hand and power tools, drilling and tapping, basic metalwork, mounting and shimming things so they stay put
- Metrology - fluent with calipers, micrometers, dial indicators, squares, feeler gauges, and levels. You can measure to a stated tolerance, check flatness, squareness, and parallelism, verify fixture and tool alignment, and recognize when a stack-up of small errors is what's actually causing the problem. You trust the measurement over the eyeball
- Reading mechanical drawings and following a stated tolerance; comfortable with GD&T basics or willing to learn them fast
- Working knowledge of safe practices around industrial equipment - lockout/tagout, PPE, and the awareness that a robot cell can crush, pinch, or move unexpectedly
- Diagnostic instinct - able to work a problem from symptom to cause on a machine you didn't build, without a troubleshooting tree
- Comfortable with ambiguity and change: most of what we build has no manual and will be different next month
- Clear communication, including writing down what you did
- High school diploma or equivalent. Trade school, apprenticeship, or an associate's in a technical field is a plus, but we care…