Engineering Technician

About the role

Pacific Defense is seeking an Engineering Technician to support the Sunnyvale, CA location. The position involves engineering development, troubleshooting, production support, and maintaining complex instrumentation to ensure reliability, configuration control, and specifications.

Responsibilities

• Use schematics, blueprints, or sketches and verbal and written instructions to assemble, rework, or re-assemble units
• Hand solder components onto PCBs
• Perform rework (i.e., 0201 size parts) and PCB modifications as needed
• Surface mount, fine pitch, and through-hole soldering
• Able to attach wires to load cell tabs by following schematics or wiring diagrams
• Able to work with precision and follow standardized, existing procedures
• Able to work with miniaturized tools such as tweezers, fine screwdrivers, and soldering irons
• Write or modify a board-level test procedure with guidance from a design engineer
• Collect and organize RF characterization and test data, follow test procedures and instructions for the completion of assigned tasks
• Clearly communicate status using the established collaboration tools
• Demonstrate the ability to organize information, job tasks, and manage time for most efficient and "best value" performance

Requirements

• Experience with reading/interpreting drawings, bills of materials (BOMs), and complex assembly instructions in order to assemble PCBs
• Experience soldering both SMT and through-hole parts onto PCBs
• Operate autonomously without direct engineering or management oversight
• Proven experience transitioning products from design to manufacturing as part of a cross-functional team
• Demonstrated experience in fast-paced iterative design environments with complex RF and high-speed digital processing electronic products and associated software and gateware
• Demonstrated experience with reviewing hardware designs to define test coverage
• Proven ability in communicating project status and updates across departments and disciplines
• Excellent communication (oral and written) with all levels; collaboration, organizational, and prioritization skills
• Ability to read, understand, and apply schematics and assembly drawings
• Solder fine electronics on printed circuit cards, wires, and assemblies
• Develop and troubleshoot electronics systems from incomplete information
• Must be IPC certified