Mechanical & Electrical Technician

Silana · New York City · On-site · Full-time

About Silana

Here at silana we are building an automated garment assembly system that's redefining how apparel gets manufactured. We're a seed-stage robotics company headquartered in NYC, deploying our first system with a launch customer in Europe this summer. The next 12 months are the most important in our company's history, and we're growing the team to match.

The role

We're designing the next iteration of our assembly cell right now, and we need a technician who can take CAD drawings, wiring diagrams, and engineering intent, and turn them into a working machine on the floor. You'll work side-by-side with our mechanical, electrical, and controls engineers through the entire build-up: from frame assembly and component mounting, through electrical wiring and pneumatic plumbing, all the way to power-on, debug, and iteration.

You'll also own the physical flow of parts into our shop, receiving deliveries, checking what came in against what was ordered, organizing inventory so engineers can actually find things, and flagging when something's missing or wrong before it blocks a build.

This is a hands-on builder role. If you like seeing a machine come together from a pile of extrusion and a wiring schematic, you'll like this job.

What you'll do

• Build & commissioning
  • Build up new cells from mechanical frame to fully wired, powered, and commissioned system
  • Mechanical assembly: aluminum extrusion frames, mounting robots (UR series), actuators, sensors, custom fixtures, pneumatics
  • Electrical work: control cabinet wiring, EtherCAT topology, sensor and actuator wiring, cable management, panel layout
  • Pneumatics: tubing, manifolds, valve banks, leak-checking
  • Support bring-up and debugging alongside engineering
  • Iterate on the cell as the design evolves. we're still actively changing things, and we need someone who can absorb design changes quickly without losing the plot

  Shop & supply operations

  • Receive incoming deliveries: unpack, inspect, and check items against POs and packing slips
  • Flag damaged parts, short shipments, or wrong items immediately and coordinate with engineering on resolution
  • Organize and label inventory. components, fasteners, electrical hardware, tooling
  • Maintain a clean, safe, and orderly shop floor and storage areas
  • Help keep our BOMs and inventory records accurate as parts come in and get consumed
  • Surface low-stock issues before they become blockers

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of hands-on experience building, wiring, or maintaining industrial machinery, robotics cells, automated equipment, or similar
• Comfortable reading mechanical drawings and electrical schematics
• Solid electrical skills: panel wiring, ferrules, terminal blocks, 24V DC and 3-phase, sensor wiring, soldering and crimping
• Mechanical fluency: hand tools, power tools, torque specs, alignment, basic machining or fabrication a plus
• Experience with pneumatic systems
• Genuinely enjoys the build phase of a project, the part where things don't fit, wires are short, and you have to figure it out

Bonus

• Experience with garment, textile, or fabric-handling machinery, or the manufacturing and testing of other soft goods
• Comfortable with collaborative robots
• Familiarity with industrial control hardware, Beckhoff, Siemens, Allen-Bradley, or similar. Beckhoff/EtherCAT experience is a strong plus.
• Vision system mounting and alignment (cameras, lighting)
• Experience utilizing Arduino or ESP32 boards

What we offer

• Direct, daily impact on a machine that ships to a real customer this summer
• A small team where what you build matters and your name is on it
• A real shop with real tools in NYC
• Compensation: $60,000 - $70,000 (year) base salary