Softwash Rig Welder/Fabricator - Lucid Bots

About Lucid Bots

Lucid Bots is an AI robotics company building the world’s most productive and responsible robots. Our mission is simple: extend human reach. We design intelligent machines that take on dangerous, demanding, and repetitive work—so people don’t have to.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, we design, engineer, manufacture, and support our products in the United States. Our production-ready robots are deployed by customers around the world to improve safety, increase productivity, and elevate operational standards.

We are one of the fastest-growing manufacturing companies in the United States, recently ranked fourth nationally. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator (S19), Cubit Capital, Idea Fund Partners, Danu Ventures, and others, we are scaling quickly at the intersection of AI, hardware, and real-world impact.

We’re building more than robots—we’re building the future of physical AI.

Our Core Values and How We Work Together

At Lucid Bots, we’re building something extraordinary - and how we work matters just as much as what we build. These values guide how we hire, grow, and show up for one another.

• Expedition Behavior - We climb as one. No silos, no “that’s not my job.” We protect the team and share the load.

• Grow with Humility - We’re relentless learners. We seek feedback, own mistakes, and get better every day.

• Lift People Up - Humans come first. We care fiercely, speak honestly, and design for real people in real conditions.

• Build the Extraordinary - We take ownership, reject the ordinary, and run toward hard problems.

We live Above the Line: we take responsibility, create solutions, and shape the future.
If these values energize you, you’ll thrive here. If they feel like too much, this may not be the right climb - and that’s okay.

The Role

We're bringing softwash skid manufacturing in-house, and we need a hands-on welder/fabricator to help build that capability from the ground up. You'll weld and fabricate skid frames, brackets, and assemblies — and you'll help us pick the equipment, design the fixtures, and define the process that turns this from a vendor-dependent operation into a real production line. If you've ever wanted to stand up a fab cell and shape how it runs, this is that role.

What You’ll Do

• Fabricate and weld softwash skid frames, brackets, mounts, and related metal assemblies.
• Help transition skid manufacturing from outsourced and prototype builds to repeatable in-house production.
• Recommend welding equipment, fabrication tools, fixtures, jigs, tables, consumables, and shop layout.
• Interpret engineering drawings, CAD models, sketches, and build requirements.
• Give engineering real, useful feedback on weldment design, material selection, tolerances, and assembly methods.
• Develop repeatable fabrication processes for skid frames and related components.
• Create work instructions, fixture concepts, inspection points, and quality standards.
• Perform cutting, grinding, drilling, fitting, measuring, and general metal fabrication work.
• Support prototype builds, design iterations, and production ramp-up.
• Keep the welding and fabrication area clean, safe, and organized.
• Help identify outside vendor needs for processes we shouldn't bring in-house yet — powder coating, laser cutting, bending, specialty machining.

What We’re Looking For

• You've welded and fabricated professionally for years — manufacturing, custom builds, or production environments. MIG is your bread and butter; TIG is in your kit.
• You can read a drawing, walk to a table, and produce a clean, repeatable part — in steel or aluminum — without anyone hovering.
• You've stood up a fab area or production cell before, or you've been the person whose opinion got asked when one was being stood up.
• You have strong opinions about fixtures, jigs, and shop layout — and you can explain why.
• You take pride in weld quality, fit, and finish. Rework irritates you on principle.
• You give engineering useful feedback. You're not afraid to push back on a drawing when the build will suffer, and you bring the reasons with you.
• You're comfortable in a young, fast-moving environment where the process is still being defined.
• Bonus: you've worked on skids, frames, trailers, pressure washing, softwash, or similar utility equipment.
• Bonus: you've designed weld fixtures or assembly jigs yourself.
• Bonus: you know your way around lean, 5S, or production process improvemen

What We’re Not Looking For

• Systems administrators or DevOps engineers
• Candidates without experience on physical products
• Engineers who prefer loosely defined requirements over structured execution

Why Join Lucid Bots?

• Work directly with the founder of a fast-growing, venture-backed robotics startup.
• Be part of a team solving real-world problems with frontier technology.
• Get a front-row seat to fundraising, company building, and startup strategy at scale.
• Learn more in one year than most people do in five—this is a career accelerant.
• Help support the culture, pace, and systems of a company scaling fast and building things that matter.

Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 3% retirement match
• 15 days of paid time off (PTO)
• 3 sick days 
• 11 paid holidays, with 3 of those being floating holidays
• Employee stock option plan

We’d Love to Hear from You!

1. Why here? Why are you excited about Lucid Bots specifically?
2. Why you? What is the one thing about you that a resume can’t capture?