Electrical Lab Engineer
- Redmond, WA, United States
From $71 USD / hour
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- Pay
- From $71 USD / hour
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Required Skills & Experience
2+ years of experience with signal Generation Experience with V Hands-on electrical wiring, rack-and-stack, lab equipment integration, or electrical technician work. 2+ years of experience working with Linux-based systems Strong understanding of wiring best practices, cable management, labeling, routing, strain relief, and electrical safety. Experience working with low-voltage systems and familiarity with safe handling of higher-voltage equipment. Ability to read and follow wiring diagrams, schematics, block diagrams, pinouts, and basic electrical documentation. Ability to use common electrical tools and test equipment such as multimeters, power supplies, crimpers, soldering tools, and cable testers. Experience troubleshooting electrical connectivity, power, grounding, cabling, or equipment integration issues. Ability to work independently in a lab environment with minimal supervision. Experience building or maintaining electrical test setups, hardware development labs, manufacturing test fixtures, or engineering prototypes. Comfortable documenting work clearly and creating repeatable wiring or setup instructions. Strong attention to detail and commitment to clean, safe, maintainable workmanship.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Experience with RF connector care and best practices, including inspection, cleaning, torque specifications, connector savers and ESD handling
- Experience automating RF test equipment and signal paths with SCPI, VISA or similar instrument control interfaces
- Experience documenting RF infrastructure, including path diagrams, labeling schemes, cable inventories and calibration records Knowledge of industry-standard test automation tools and experience developing product test harnesses and instrumenting products to gather test results
Job Description
We are looking for an Electrical Lab Engineer to support the buildout, wiring, integration, and maintenance of development lab equipment and test setups. This role is focused analysing existing test racks and solutioning for improvements and changes. They could occasionally need to do hands on lab work to help put together their new design. This person must have good communication to speak with leadership and relay updates. They must understand signle generations and have experience working within this environment. The ideal candidate has strong practical experience wiring and organizing lab systems, understands safe electrical practices, and can build clean, reliable, serviceable setups. One day you might be tracing an intermittent RF path with a VNA. The next, you might be re-cabling a switch matrix to support a new terminal configuration or scripting instrument control for an automated test. You should be able to define standard operating procedures that keep equipment, RF infrastructure and test environments highly available, and expand the team's capabilities over time. You will be key to helping the team move quickly and confidently as our systems scale.
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Skills
- Electrical wiring
- Laboratory equipment
- Linux
- Electrical wiring diagrams
- Documentation
- Troubleshooting
- Work independently
- Attention to detail
- Inspection
- Cleaning
- Tools for ICT test automation
- Communication skills