Lab Equipment & Facilities Technician

Responsibilities

• Triage, troubleshoot, and repair lab equipment across the floor.
• Use practical, out-of-the-box thinking to repair tools safely and cost-effectively.
• Manage OEM service contracts, including opening tickets, hosting field engineers, and holding vendors accountable to scope and schedule.
• Maintain facilities and infrastructure, including HVAC, process support systems, vacuum systems, mechanical and electrical systems, compressed gases, cryogens, and environmental monitoring.
• Use machining and 3D printing to fix systems, solve problems, and enable new lab capabilities.
• Manage the preventive maintenance and calibration calendar across instruments and facilities.
• Own day-to-day EH&S activities, including chemical, mechanical, electrical, cryogenic, and compressed-gas safety.
• Maintain waste manifests, SDS records, hazmat processes, and emergency equipment.
• Own consumables, spare parts, and purchasing for the lab.
• Support lab build-out, commissioning, and tool acceptance.
• Aid in developing SOPs, preventive maintenance checklists, and operating procedures.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience maintaining precision analytical, semiconductor, vacuum-based, or similarly complex technical equipment.
• Comfortable working across a broad tool base and facility systems, rather than being limited to one instrument or trade.
• Strong safety discipline across chemical, mechanical, electrical, cryogenic, and compressed-gas hazards.
• Good judgment under pressure, with the ability to decide when to fix an issue immediately, escalate to a vendor, or shut a system down.
• Strong documentation habits for maintenance, repairs, procedures, and safety records.
• Relevant training or background to perform the role, whether formal, military, self-taught, or gained through hands-on technical experience.
• High ownership mindset and willingness to be accountable for lab uptime, safety, and readiness.

Preferred Skills

• Experience serving on a safety committee or in a designated safety role.
• Experience building policies, procedures, or infrastructure to meet regulatory requirements.
• Experience working directly with facilities vendors, OEMs, and construction contractors.
• Hands-on experience with FIB, SEM, TEM, or sample-preparation tooling.
• CNC, machining, fabrication, or 3D printing experience.
• Cleanroom or ESD discipline.
• Basic scripting experience, especially Python, for log parsing, monitoring, and trend analysis.
• Experience supporting lab build-outs, commissioning, or equipment acceptance.

Growth Areas

• Opportunity to become the primary owner of lab readiness, maintenance standards, and equipment uptime across STEEL.
• Exposure to a broad range of advanced semiconductor, analytical, and sample-preparation tools beyond what is typically available in a single-tool fab assignment.
• Ability to help build and scale the lab’s safety, maintenance, calibration, and vendor-management systems from the ground up.
• Opportunity to develop deeper expertise in semiconductor teardown, characterization workflows, and advanced hardware analysis.
• High visibility in a small, technical team where the work directly enables published SemiAnalysis research.
• Potential to grow into broader lab operations, facilities leadership, equipment engineering, or technical operations ownership as STEEL scales.