Maintenance Technician

altentechnologyusa

San Francisco, California, United States · San Francisco · United States

Posted Dec 2, 2025

Full-time
Robotics / Automation

Job description

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

As a Maintenance Technician, you will be responsible for regular preventative maintenance of equipment, robotics, facilities, and any other requested work needed by the team. This includes maximizing uptime through regular operation and observation of equipment and robotic work cells, including annotation of performance and metric collection. You will handle implementation of hardware change requests and maintenance requests, installation and assembly of new equipment, and support software researchers by manually resetting items in robotic work cells, resetting the safety system, and resolving intervention requests. Additionally, you will maintain documentation of work performed and troubleshoot electrical and mechanical issues to resolve malfunctioning equipment.

Key Responsibilities:

Software

Maintain a strong understanding of System architecture
Need to be able to use SW provided by supplier / manufacturer to monitor the health of the robots.

Hardware

Will need to be able to read mechanical and electrical diagrams
Will need to trouble shoot robots and mechatronics systems when having physical problems
Will need to preform Mechanical, Electronic, Motion control and Power systems maintenance and integration
Must be able to install, maintain, and troubleshoot various actuators and sensors in robotic systems
Need to be able to work with power tools to preform repairs on versus types of robots
Will be expected to help build various obstacles and structures as needed for testing and development

Qualifications:

2-3+ years of experience working in a robotics or automation environment
2-3+ years Experience with maintenance, repair and modification of systems
Inventory and spare parts organization and documentation experience
Part ordering experience
Team player being able to wear multiple hats and help the team as need
Must be able to prioritize work in the most efficient and effective way possible
Experience working with suppliers to create diagnostic
Testing and validation experience
Experience implementing / maintaining maintenance and repair processes and ensuring they are well documented and tracked.

Salary Range:

$100,000 - $115,000
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.