Field Technician (Contractor)

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Overview

**Location: Kansas City, Missouri *

Instacart recently acquired Caper AI to help retailers unify the in-store and online shopping experience for customers no matter how they choose to shop. Caper’s cutting-edge, AI-powered shopping carts and automated checkout counters bring together online and offline shopping to create a completely new in-store experience for customers.

In addition to acquiring Caper AI’s technology, we’re delighted to welcome the Caper team to the Instacart family. The global Caper team is based primarily in New York City and Shanghai, China, and will bring new hardware expertise to Instacart’s already deep product and technology team. Together, we’re excited to create new ways for retailers to solve for the ever-changing needs of their businesses and customers.

About the Role

Caper builds smart shopping carts powered by deep learning and computer vision to enable a seamless grab-and-go retail experience. Caper’s unique technology is a plug-and-play solution that does not require retail store renovation, operational overhaul, heavy compute, and endless image labeling & training. Retailers simply purchase smart shopping carts and the entire store is upgraded with cashierless capabilities!

Caper is one of the fastest-growing retail automation technology products in the market, costs less than 1% of our competitions’ infrastructure and is already widely adopted in the marketplace. Our cross-functional and durable Product team solves hard customer & business problems in ways that our customers love.

About the Job

Work with the Hardware and Operations teams to diagnose and resolve issues, as well as deliver new features and improvements to Caper carts

• Communicate with our clients and represent Caper professionally on-site and virtually
• Capture clear notes and other media to document understanding and resolution processes for issues encountered
• Work with a Wonderful Team that will support you in your success
• Requires availability Monday through Friday and the ability to diagnose and resolve incident tickets on-site within 48 hours
• Support new retail store setup of carts
• Contracted role can provide supplemental income with flexible day and evening hours

About You

Minimum Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in technical support, mechanical engineering, hardware maintenance or related fields in a corporation or in a startup environment
• Great troubleshooting skills to look beyond the task at hand and find creative solutions to simple and complex problems
• Experience at handling wires, electronic circuits, computers and other devices and high-tech devices such as copiers, printers, POS systems; Basic knowledge of electrical engineering/wiring
• Basic network knowledge in setup of Wi-Fi devices
• Comfortable working with Windows, Android, Gmail, Google Drive, Excel, Slack, and troubleshooting tools and apps
• Ability travel-out-of-state for training purposes and new store setups
• Must have a vehicle and clean driving record

Preferred Qualifications

• Enjoy learning about and working directly with software and hardware of new technology
• Highly organized with strong verbal and written communication skills to support customer and team interactions, as well as documentation
• Customer-focused orientation that aims to over-deliver on expectations
• Willing to work independently in the field with limited supervision
• Logical thinker who is able to connect the dots when a complex challenge arises
• Collaborative attitude who enjoys working with a team to solve problems.

Pay rate: $35/hour