Test / Repair Technician
About the job
- Be hands-on and mechanically inclined.
- Be able to troubleshoot and fix hardware issues quickly.
- Be organized and dependable.
- Work well in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- Be excited to work closely with real robotic systems.
- Stand for extended periods, work with hand and power tools, and maintain close attention to detail.
- Maintain demo and test robots in working condition.
- Diagnose simple hardware issues and perform repairs or part swaps.
- Keep test hardware organized, available, and operational.
- Support test setup, execution, and teardown.
- Assist with forward-deployed and demo-ready hardware preparation.
- Work with engineers and the broader test team to keep evaluation moving.
- Flag recurring failures and reliability issues early.
- Experience as a repair technician, maintenance technician, assembly technician, or lab technician.
- Experience with electromechanical systems.
- Experience supporting demos, test hardware, or field systems.
About the company
Droyd Robotics builds autonomous, precision robotic systems for industrial environments, focusing on autonomous construction such as data center build-out and maintenance. It designs and manufactures hardware in-house, runs the control stack, and collects real-world data to train generalist AI models that guide perception, planning, and action. The robots use low-cost arms and integrated hardware-software systems to operate autonomously in production settings, turning repetitive manual tasks into infrastructure. The company differentiates itself through vertical integration and by creating realistic test environments that mirror real deployments, using data-driven AI to scale autonomous capabilities for enterprise customers.
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Headquarters
San Francisco, California
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Jobs posted in 2026 show 25 open roles and active scaling.
- Droyd's site and Ashby postings emphasize autonomous construction and data center buildout.
- Equity-backed hiring across robotics, ML, and manufacturing suggests committed product execution.
What critics are saying
- No disclosed customers or revenue make a 2026 go-to-market failure existential.
- Twenty-five San Francisco hires signal heavy burn before proving repeatable deployments.
- Teleoperation-heavy systems face safety, reliability, and liability shocks during real construction jobs.
What makes Droyd Robotics unique
- Vertical integration spans hardware, control stack, and training data in San Francisco.
- Droyd targets repetitive construction and operations work, not toy demos, in production environments.
- Teleoperation plus proprietary fleet data creates a compounding autonomy loop inside deployment.
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