Mechanical Technician Jobs at Snorkel AI with Visa Sponsorship
Snorkel AI hires Mechanical Technicians to support the physical infrastructure behind its data-centric AI platform, from lab hardware to prototype builds. The company has a track record of sponsoring work visas for technical roles, making it a realistic target if you need H-1B or OPT support.
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At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data.
We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes between 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!
About the Role
We're looking for a Research Program Manager to own and drive some of the most cross-cutting work in our research organization. This is a builder role: you'll stand up new programs, connect dots across teams, and make sure our research partnerships and internal projects actually move at the pace of frontier AI. You'll operate across three key areas:
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Open Benchmarks Grants Program: You'll own the full lifecycle of our grants program — from the application funnel and review process through award administration, partner introductions, and ongoing grantee relationships. This program is early, and you'll be the one shaping how it scales.
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Research Project Management: You'll be the connective tissue across a portfolio of active research projects, building the systems that make status legible and risks impossible to ignore. You'll also be an external-facing partner, working directly with collaborators and customers on technical programs.
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Roadmap Synthesis & Cross-Functional Strategy: You'll take learnings from grants, partnerships, and project execution and synthesize them into inputs that shape our data and research roadmap. There's significant whitespace here, especially around frontier capabilities work, and we want someone who sees that as an opportunity.
- Build and run the Open Benchmarks Grants program end-to-end: application pipeline, acceptance criteria, communications with applicants, award logistics, and partner coordination
- Track and drive status across a portfolio of research projects; identify risks early and escalate them loudly — you're the person who says "this is going to slip" before it slips, and you make sure the right people hear it
- Serve as a credible, technical point of contact for external partners and customers — someone who earns trust through competence, not just process
- Synthesize insights from across programs and projects into strategic recommendations that feed our research and data roadmap
- Work cross-functionally with research, engineering, product, and partnerships teams to connect workstreams and reduce friction
What You’ll Bring
Required qualifications
- 5+ years in program management, technical program management, or research operations: ideally in an environment where you had to build systems and processes, not just inherit them
- Organizational Rigor: You bring structure to chaos, know what's at risk before anyone asks, you maintain the source of truth that everyone else relies on, and nothing falls through the cracks.
- Bias towards action: You default to action. When something needs doing and there's no playbook, you write the playbook while doing the thing.
- Direct, proactive communication: When a project is at risk, you name it clearly — to the team, to leadership, to the partner — even when it's uncomfortable. You're willing to call someone out when a deadline is slipping or a dependency is being ignored, and you do it in a way that accelerates the work rather than creating drama
- Strong technical intuition: You need to be able to follow the work, ask sharp questions, and translate between technical and operational contexts.
- Clear communication: You can explain the same project to a researcher, an exec, and an external partner and each one walks away feeling like you spoke their language.
Bonus Points For
- Experience with research partnerships (e.g. grants, academic collab) is a strong plus
- Familiarity with AI/ML research is highly valued. You don't need to write papers, but you should be able to read an abstract and know what's interesting about it
- Comfort with data analysis and synthesis — e.g., pulling insights from messy project data, usage metrics, or partner feedback and turning it into something actionable for a roadmap
- Prior startup or early-stage experience, reinforcing ability to build zero-to-one.
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Snorkel also includes benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Pay Range: $150,000-$210,000
Be Your Best at Snorkel
Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.
Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About Snorkel
At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data.
We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes between 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!
About the Role
We're looking for a Research Program Manager to own and drive some of the most cross-cutting work in our research organization. This is a builder role: you'll stand up new programs, connect dots across teams, and make sure our research partnerships and internal projects actually move at the pace of frontier AI. You'll operate across three key areas:
-
Open Benchmarks Grants Program: You'll own the full lifecycle of our grants program — from the application funnel and review process through award administration, partner introductions, and ongoing grantee relationships. This program is early, and you'll be the one shaping how it scales.
-
Research Project Management: You'll be the connective tissue across a portfolio of active research projects, building the systems that make status legible and risks impossible to ignore. You'll also be an external-facing partner, working directly with collaborators and customers on technical programs.
-
Roadmap Synthesis & Cross-Functional Strategy: You'll take learnings from grants, partnerships, and project execution and synthesize them into inputs that shape our data and research roadmap. There's significant whitespace here, especially around frontier capabilities work, and we want someone who sees that as an opportunity.
- Build and run the Open Benchmarks Grants program end-to-end: application pipeline, acceptance criteria, communications with applicants, award logistics, and partner coordination
- Track and drive status across a portfolio of research projects; identify risks early and escalate them loudly — you're the person who says "this is going to slip" before it slips, and you make sure the right people hear it
- Serve as a credible, technical point of contact for external partners and customers — someone who earns trust through competence, not just process
- Synthesize insights from across programs and projects into strategic recommendations that feed our research and data roadmap
- Work cross-functionally with research, engineering, product, and partnerships teams to connect workstreams and reduce friction
What You’ll Bring
Required qualifications
- 5+ years in program management, technical program management, or research operations: ideally in an environment where you had to build systems and processes, not just inherit them
- Organizational Rigor: You bring structure to chaos, know what's at risk before anyone asks, you maintain the source of truth that everyone else relies on, and nothing falls through the cracks.
- Bias towards action: You default to action. When something needs doing and there's no playbook, you write the playbook while doing the thing.
- Direct, proactive communication: When a project is at risk, you name it clearly — to the team, to leadership, to the partner — even when it's uncomfortable. You're willing to call someone out when a deadline is slipping or a dependency is being ignored, and you do it in a way that accelerates the work rather than creating drama
- Strong technical intuition: You need to be able to follow the work, ask sharp questions, and translate between technical and operational contexts.
- Clear communication: You can explain the same project to a researcher, an exec, and an external partner and each one walks away feeling like you spoke their language.
Bonus Points For
- Experience with research partnerships (e.g. grants, academic collab) is a strong plus
- Familiarity with AI/ML research is highly valued. You don't need to write papers, but you should be able to read an abstract and know what's interesting about it
- Comfort with data analysis and synthesis — e.g., pulling insights from messy project data, usage metrics, or partner feedback and turning it into something actionable for a roadmap
- Prior startup or early-stage experience, reinforcing ability to build zero-to-one.
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending on your work location, the target annual salary for this position can range as detailed below. Snorkel also includes benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).
Pay Range: $150,000-$210,000
Be Your Best at Snorkel
Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.
Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Translate hardware skills into AI infrastructure language
Snorkel AI operates at the intersection of physical and data infrastructure. Reframe your resume around lab automation, sensor integration, or hardware reliability work that directly supports ML pipelines, not just general mechanical maintenance.
Target roles tied to Snorkel's lab and hardware teams
Snorkel AI's Mechanical Technician openings tend to support physical data annotation infrastructure and prototype hardware. Filtering for these team-specific postings improves your chances of landing a role where sponsorship is already a precedent.
Ask directly about H-1B filing timelines during offer negotiation
USCIS cap-subject H-1B petitions must be filed by April 1 for an October 1 start. Confirm with Snorkel AI's recruiting team whether your offer letter timing supports that window before signing.
Use Migrate Mate to surface Snorkel AI's open Mechanical Technician roles
Browse Snorkel AI's verified sponsorship-eligible Mechanical Technician postings through Migrate Mate, which filters specifically for employers with a visa sponsorship history so you're not applying blind on general job boards.
Prepare documentation showing degree-to-role alignment
For H-1B specialty occupation classification, your degree field must align with the Mechanical Technician role. Gather transcripts and course descriptions that map your engineering or applied sciences coursework to Snorkel AI's hardware-focused job requirements.
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Does Snorkel AI sponsor H-1B visas for Mechanical Technicians?
Yes, Snorkel AI has sponsored H-1B visas for technical roles including Mechanical Technicians. Sponsorship isn't guaranteed for every posting, so ask the recruiter directly during early conversations. If your role qualifies as a specialty occupation under USCIS guidelines, Snorkel AI's HR team can initiate the I-129 petition process with your offer.
How do I apply for Mechanical Technician jobs at Snorkel AI?
Apply through Snorkel AI's careers page or browse their sponsorship-eligible postings on Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles from employers with a verified sponsorship track record. Tailor your application to highlight hands-on hardware experience relevant to AI infrastructure. Snorkel AI's recruiting process typically includes a technical screen and a practical skills assessment.
Which visa types are commonly used for Mechanical Technician roles at Snorkel AI?
H-1B and F-1 OPT are the most common pathways for Mechanical Technicians at Snorkel AI. TN visas are also an option for Canadian and Mexican nationals whose roles fall under eligible USMCA professional categories. Each pathway has different eligibility requirements, so confirm which applies to your situation before accepting an offer.
What qualifications does Snorkel AI expect for Mechanical Technician roles?
Snorkel AI typically looks for candidates with a degree or equivalent technical training in mechanical engineering, electromechanical systems, or a related field, along with hands-on experience in hardware assembly, testing, or lab operations. Familiarity with prototyping tools and the ability to work in an R&D environment are commonly cited in their job postings.
How do I plan my visa timeline when targeting a Mechanical Technician role at Snorkel AI?
If you're on F-1 OPT, confirm your remaining work authorization before applying and flag your status to the recruiter early. For H-1B sponsorship, USCIS requires registration in the annual lottery by mid-March, with employment starting no earlier than October 1. Building your job search timeline around these dates reduces the risk of an authorization gap.
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