Robotic Operations Engineer

Chef Robotics provides physical-AI food-assembly robots and a robotics-as-a-service offering for food manufacturers.

San Francisco, United States
About Chef Robotics

Chef Robotics, Inc. builds AI-enabled robotic systems for high-mix food production. Its robots and Food Foundation Model handle variable ingredients, portions, trays, and conveyors, with hardware, software, support, and updates offered through a robotics-as-a-service model.

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About the Role

You will monitor incoming customer support requests, investigate and triage issues, deploy fixes or mitigations, and lead escalations when needed. You will guide on-site operators through remote diagnostics, coordinate break/fix work, maintain support documentation and ticket records, and improve support performance.

Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
  • At least 1 year of experience in a customer-facing applications engineering, deployment, solutions engineering, or similar role
  • Experience with API integrations for support tooling development
  • Comfort with command-line interfaces and basic Bash, Python, or JavaScript scripting
  • Ability to travel at least 20% of the time
  • Availability for a flexible schedule and on-call hours
  • Familiarity with Linux, Unix, or Robot Operating System
  • Communication and project management skills

Responsibilities

  • Investigate, triage, and resolve customer issues
  • Perform remote diagnostics with on-site operators and field technicians
  • Track hardware requests, part numbers, and quantities
  • Write and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and FAQ articles
  • Coordinate production-blocking issue resolution with Systems Support and Applications teams
  • Coordinate break/fix work with third-party technicians
  • Maintain accurate customer ticket states
  • Improve support performance with the Customer Support Manager

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Catered lunch
  • 401(k) matching