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Guild builds the fully autonomous freight cross-dock: the switching layer of the physical supply chain, routing freight truck-to-truck without dwell.

We run the dock ourselves and sell cross-docking as a service to LTL carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers. It operates through right-to-use agreements across brownfield sites. As RFMs and robotics OEMs mature, Guild folds the best of them into an operation it owns end to end. Every gain in autonomy compounds operational capacity.

Mechatronics Field Engineer

  • San Francisco
  • Full-time
  • In-person
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We need the person who keeps the hardware moving — built, provisioned, fixed, and on the dock. You’ll work with the COO and Director of Hardware to keep releases and deployments on schedule. The role is flexible by design: some weeks are assembly and bring-up, some are customer deployments, some are inventory and vendor calls.

What you’ll do

  • Own mechanical design plus a build process other people can actually follow — repeatable, not a one-off.
  • Assemble the machines — mechanical build, electrical design and wiring — and test every unit for mechanical completeness and power.
  • Stand up and improve the bring-up infrastructure: test compute and flashing.
  • Debug, flash, and reinstall robot behavior; rework wiring and harnesses by hand. Use AI coding tools daily, backed by basic firmware and software fluency.
  • Support deployments end to end — transport, setup, checklists, and field debugging.
  • Manage inventory, procurement, and part substitutions; coordinate vendors so parts arrive for releases, and pick up hardware yourself when that’s what it takes.
  • Handle general business operations for a company shipping hardware: vendors, process, and follow-through.

Who this is for

You’ve built real machines somewhere the machine had to actually work — a competition team (FSAE, Baja, BattleBots, or college robotics), a lab or startup that shipped hardware, or a shop, field-service, or manufacturing role fixing equipment under time pressure. We want the person who made the thing work, not only the person who designed it.

You’re comfortable using AI coding tools to debug and get the job done. You like wearing multiple hats and putting out fires. You’re quick to learn, with hands-on mechatronics experience: soldering, crimping, harness assembly and rework, and basic bench test equipment.

Compensation and schedule

  • Pay range: $71,000–$130,000 per year.
  • Full-time, fixed-term role (approximately six months), with potential to extend. Based in person in San Francisco.

Requirements

  • Authorized to work in the United States.

Field Operator

  • San Francisco
  • Part-time
  • In-person
Apply for this role

We need the person who keeps the operation moving — parts arriving, freight flowing, robots on site and working. You’ll work directly with the COO. The role is flexible by design: some weeks are vendor calls and inventory, some are deployments and site visits, some are keeping the office and shop running.

What you’ll do

  • Manage inventory, procurement, and part substitutions; coordinate vendors so parts arrive for releases, and pick up hardware yourself when that’s what it takes.
  • Handle general business operations for a company shipping hardware: vendors, process, and follow-through.
  • Help with office and freight operations and logistics — receiving, shipping, staging, and keeping the shop stocked and organized.
  • Drive to customer sites around California to troubleshoot; support deployments end to end — transport, setup, checklists, and field debugging.

Who this is for

You’ve kept a real operation running somewhere the details mattered — a warehouse, shop, freight or logistics operation, field-service route, or an early-stage company where you were the one who made sure things actually arrived, got set up, and worked. You’re organized without needing a system handed to you, comfortable on the phone with vendors, and happy to spend one day in a spreadsheet and the next on a dock.

Hands-on hardware comfort is a plus, not a requirement. You’ll be around robots and freight equipment, and you’re the kind of person who learns tools quickly.

Compensation and schedule

  • Pay: $62.50/hour (non-exempt hourly).
  • Part-time, approximately 20–25 hours per week, with potential to grow into a full-time role. Based in person in San Francisco.

Requirements

  • Valid US driver’s license.
  • Authorized to work in the United States.

Equal opportunity

Guild Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Guild Robotics will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.