Electrical Lab Technician

This is 100% onsite role in Fremont, CA 94538.

Our Client is a Fortune 350 company that engages in the design, manufacturing, marketing, and service of semiconductor processing equipment.

The ideal candidate for this position is comfortable working independently, but also closely with engineering. You must be organized to manage a very active and fast paced lab space. “Hands on” and highly motivated to finish the job in a timely but quality manner. Genuinely curious about electro-mechanical systems. Have a track record of managing Engineering labs in fast paced prototyping environments.

Experience:

• Minimum of 4 years of Electro/Mechanical lab managing experience
• Soldering/reworking Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBA)
• Building/reworking multiconductor cable assemblies; Power & Signal
• Building/reworking power distribution boxes; torque spec, circuit breakers, bus bars, cable harness.
• EE support, building/maintaining lab experiments, data collection, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Manage two EE labs.
• Labs are compliant to Lam’s safety standards and that they are enforced.
• Ensure the labs are stocked with tools, components
• Ensure labs are organized and neat
• Ensure that equipment is maintained and repaired quickly, environment chambers, prototype PCB routers.
• Responsible for lab cleanliness, organization, moving parts to offsite storage or inventory. Manages check-in/check-out of equipment.
• Work with Facilities for any new/updated connections, power, water, air
• Assist as necessary with reworking PCBs
• Through-hole, surface mount, reflow soldering. Jumper wires, dead-bug ICs, Potting/epoxy material. Document rework done.
• Cable assemblies: Build new and modify existing cables/harnesses.
• Experience with: Harting, Molex, CPC, Ring Lugs, Ferrules, DSUB and combo DSUB connectors. Including crimp tools used, proper shield termination and wire gauge size. Propper application of Shrink tubing.
• Bonus points for coax cables with RF connector experience.
• 3 and single phase 208/480VAC wiring to circuit breakers and contactors. Proper torquing of connections.
• Enclosure Build: Modifying (drilling, cutting) engineering box/enclosure to house all the above items. Bulkhead connectors to internal cables, internal PCB mounting, Circuit breaker, contactor, EMO and panel mount status LED mounting. Prototype fabrication skills such as Sheetmetal punching/nibbling bending shearing drilling.
• Engineering test support
• Able to assist Engineering in a wide range of tests/experiments.
• Thermal/Humidity chambers
• Test fixture build
• Component cycling
• Prototype builds
• Test/Diagnostic Equipment: Oscilloscopes, (with a variety of probes such as HV, differential, current clamps), signal generators, spectrum analyzers, DVMs, Hi-Pot tester, DAQs, TC/RTD loggers, FLIR cameras, solder/rework stations, 3D printing, Lab view programming.
• Office/PC: Proficient in Microsoft Office products; Excel, Word, Outlook. Web search for parts, tools, data sheets and solutions to problems
• Perspective: The ideal candidate for this position is comfortable working independently, but also closely with engineering. You must be organized to manage a very active and fast paced lab space. “Hands on” and highly motivated to finish the job in a timely but quality manner. Quick is no good if it doesn’t work. You are confident to suggest improvements and ask for help when needed. Genuinely curious about electro-mechanical systems. Have a track record of managing Engineering labs in fast paced prototyping environments.

Education:

• Minimum Associates degree in electronics or related field required and/or equivalent military experience that includes electronics, such as avionics technician