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Robot Operator (Contractor)

Warp Sciences· Robotics
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South San FranciscoFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Robot Operator to collect high-quality demonstrations for teaching Warp’s autonomous chemistry laboratories. Operates robotic and teleoperation systems, prepares and resets workspace, and ensures data quality for robot learning systems.

Responsibilities

  • Operate: robotic and teleoperation systems to collect high-quality demonstrations of chemistry and manipulation tasks.
  • Perform tasks such as handling labware, weighing and transferring solids, manipulating liquids, opening containers, and operating laboratory equipment while maintaining precision and consistency.
  • Set up and reset robot workspaces, lab equipment, consumables, and experiments between data-collection runs.
  • Review collected demonstrations, identify failures or poor-quality data, and maintain a high bar for data quality and consistency.
  • Work closely with our robot learning and hardware teams to identify problems with data-collection interfaces, robot behavior, and task setups and help make the overall system better.

Qualifications

  • Exceptional attention to detail and ability to perform precise tasks consistently.
  • Ability to quickly learn new procedures, tools, and experimental setups.
  • Strong hands-on problem-solving skills and comfort working with physical systems.
  • Patience and consistency when performing repeated tasks while maintaining a high quality bar.
  • Comfortable working around robots, computers, laboratory equipment, and scientific instruments.
  • Ability to recognize when something looks wrong and clearly communicate what happened.
  • High ownership and reliability.

Skills

Required:Attention to detailLearning new proceduresHands-on problem-solvingData quality assessmentCommunication
Nice to have:Technical familiarity with lab tools
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Warp Sciences | AI and robotics for faster drug discovery

Warp is the U.S. chemistry CRO helping scientists discover new medicines faster. We bring expert chemists, AI, and robotics together to make the molecules research teams need—and build automated labs that learn from every experiment.

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