Engineering Technician

The Role
If you love making real things, this role is built for you. You’ll work with your hands and your head in equal measure: fabricating a bracket to mount hardware on the roof one day, wiring up a test rig the next, then working out how to get a pile of loose electronics enclosed, powered, and running outdoors. Early on the jobs come well-scoped. As you find your feet, more of the “here’s the goal, figure out how” problems become yours to solve.

Responsibilities:

• Builds and assembly: Put together the computers, server racks, and test rigs the whole team runs on, built well enough that people trust them. Catch the problems that look small now before they cost someone a day later.
• Cabling and networking: Run and terminate the network and power cabling and install the switches the lab depends on, then leave it clean and labeled enough that the next person never has to guess.
• Field install support: Get hardware mounted and weatherproofed at our test sites, including the roof, so it keeps working through months of real weather.
• Lab upkeep: Keep the lab organized, stocked, and safe, and catch the small problems, a hot server or a strained cable, before they take something down.
• Hands-on prototyping: Help turn rough ideas into working hardware: breadboarding, crimping harnesses, fabrication, and 3D printing.

Qualifications:

• Handy end to end: Give you a job like running cable from the rack to the roof, and you can plan the route, put together the bill of materials, and finish it as a clean, tidy install.
• Mounting, drilling, fastening, and cable routing come naturally.
• Fabrication and shop skills: You can make and modify parts: 3D printing, basic machining, welding, or confident work with hand and power tools.
• Basic computer skills: You can build or set up a computer and find your way around Linux, or you’re keen to learn it fast.
• Some electronics exposure: Any hands-on experience with breadboarding, soldering, or crimping harnesses.
• Careful and organized: You handle expensive equipment with care, label your work, and leave things tidy for the next person.
• Eager to learn: You ask good questions, pick things up quickly, and want to grow into a broader hardware role.
• Comfortable working with your hands: including outdoors and at height, done safely.

Nice to Have

• Networking basics: Cabling, switches, and IP addressing.
• RF or antennas: Any exposure to RF hardware or antenna work.
• Electronics: Setting up PSUs, loads, or solar panels, or reading a basic schematic.
• Relevant coursework or projects: A degree, trade training, or a portfolio of personal builds.