# Hardware Engineer

onepot is automating chemistry. Our goal is to enable a self-improvement loop for chemistry by combining AI and advanced robotics. In this loop, AI systems design experiments, robotic systems execute them, and the resulting data improves the next generation of models. This goal can only be achieved by bringing together people from different backgrounds: ML engineers, chemists, computer scientists, and hardware engineers. We are building a small, unusually ambitious team and are looking for an engineer who wants substantial ownership over design and creation of systems that operate in the real world. Most existing automation equipment was developed for biology, where much of the work involves pipetting easy-to-handle aqueous solutions. Chemistry is very different: reagents can corrode metals, attack plastics, evaporate, react with air or moisture, precipitate, and clog tubing. Solids may not dispense consistently, reaction mixtures may change behavior over time, and workflows that appear simple on paper can fail in dozens of unexpected ways. This makes chemistry automation extremely challenging. In many cases, existing equipment cannot simply be adapted to the task. Entire workflows

- **Id**: 840153
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/onepot-hardware-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-06T21:14:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T09:33:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 93
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5951
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 679989
- **Name**: onepot
- **Domain**: onepot.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/onepot>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **ROS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 93

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T21:29:18Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.263
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 93
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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