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We are a group of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.\nThe Team\nThe Robotics Technician Team works closely with PI's fleet operations and engineering teams to maintain the robotic platforms that power our AI research. The team is collaborative, fast-moving, and deeply technical, and this role is a direct partner to the technicians and engineers who depend on printed parts to keep robots running.\nAbout the Role\nThe 3D Printer Technician owns additive manufacturing for the Robotics Technician Team. You will run and maintain the team's 3D printers across multiple locations, manage the print request queue, set and hold print standards, and keep a stocked supply of printed spare parts at each site so technicians never wait on a print. You will work directly with hardware engineers, prototype technicians, and robot service technicians at every location.\nIn This Role You Will\nPrint Queue & Request Intake\nOwn the print request queue in Linear. Every request carries the part, revision, quantity, material, requester, and need-by date.\n\nPrioritize the queue with robot downtime first and production builds second.\n\nConfirm each request points at a released Onshape model before printing, and route undocumented parts back to the requester.\n\nPost daily queue status: printing now, next up, blocked, and expected ready times.\n\nPrinter Operation & Maintenance\nRun every printer the team owns, at every location: slicing, bed preparation, starts, monitoring, part removal, and failed print recovery.\n\nBuild and run a preventive maintenance schedule for every printer at every location (nozzles, beds, belts, extruders, firmware, calibration) and log every PM.\n\nDiagnose and repair printer failures at any location, and keep a spares kit at each site so a down printer is back in service the same day.\n\nMove between locations on a set cadence for PMs, repairs, and calibration, and respond to printer outages wherever they happen.\n\nTrack and report printer uptime by location monthly.\n\nMaterials & Post-Processing\nOwn filament and resin inventory: stock levels, dry storage, reorder points, and purchasing within set limits.\n\nMaintain one standard print profile per material and part family, versioned with the part.\n\nPost-process every part to its drawing (supports, heat set inserts, hardware, finishing) and inspect with calipers before release.\n\nStock printed spares at every site to set minimums for high-turn parts so technicians pull from a bin, not the queue.\n\nDocumentation & Standards\nMaintain a printed parts library: part number, revision, material, profile, print time, where it is used, and stock at each site.\n\nTrack print volume and failure rate by part and by printer, and report monthly on what is trending the wrong way.\n\nOwn the printer access list and train technicians who keep print access on the standard workflow and profiles.\n\nFollow the team's ticket closeout and handoff guide on every print ticket.\n\nWhat We Hope You'll Bring\nAdditive Manufacturing Experience: 2+ years running FDM printers in a production, lab, or service environment, including maintenance and repair, not just operation.\n\nSlicer Fluency: Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer, Cura, or equivalent. 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