Sesame
Fabrication Technician
San Francisco · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 103 days ago
SolidWorksFusion 360GD&TRoboticsCommunicationOrganizational Skills
About the role
- Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software.
- Join us in shaping a future where computers truly come alive.
Responsibilities
- Own routine maintenance, calibration, and consumables management for all prototyping equipment
- Troubleshoot equipment issues, coordinate service calls, and maintain maintenance logs.
- Perform post-processing: support removal, sanding, bonding, tapping, heat-setting inserts, painting, and surface finishing.
- Build and maintain jigs, fixtures, and test rigs used in prototype assembly and validation.
- Maintain a highly organized, clean, and safe lab environment
- Own routine maintenance, calibration, and consumables management for all prototyping equipment; proactively prevent downtime.
- Maintain a highly organized, clean, and safe lab environment; enforce 5S principles across workstations and storage.
- Manage lab inventory including materials, consumables, fasteners, adhesives, and tooling; reorder supplies before stockouts.
- Follow and improve build procedures; document builds with photos, measurements, and structured notes.
- Support engineering testing by preparing samples, running measurements, and logging data.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in mechanical fabrication, prototyping, or a related role in consumer electronics, robotics, or hardware development.
- Strong hand-tool proficiency and precision assembly skills-comfortable working with small parts, tight tolerances, and delicate components.
- Ability to read and work from mechanical drawings, GD&T callouts, and 3D models.
- Strong understanding of common engineering materials: plastics (ABS, PC, nylon), metals (aluminum, steel, brass), adhesives, and fasteners.
Nice to have
- Previous experience at a startup or early-stage hardware company.
- Familiarity with MCAD tools (SolidWorks, Fusion 360) for viewing and measuring models.
- Experience with soft goods, textiles, or composite materials.
- Comfort with basic electrical assembly: connectors, cable harnesses, simple soldering.
- Exposure to metrology tools: calipers, micrometers, height gauges, optical comparators.
- We welcome all qualified applicants, embracing diversity in race, gender, identity, orientation, ability, and more.
- We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
- 401 (k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
Skills
- calipers, micrometers, height gauges, optical comparators.
- Sesame is committed to a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered.
- Contact careers@sesame.com for assistance.
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to a clean, well-maintained lab.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Compensation
- 401 (k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
- Unlimited PTO and sick time
- Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
- Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options
- Benefits do not apply to contingent/contract workers.
- With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice agents part of our daily lives.
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