Engineering Lab Technician

Engineering Lab Technician

MACOM designs and manufactures semiconductor products for Data Center, Telecommunication, and Industrial and Defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, MACOM has design centers and sales offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. MACOM is certified to the ISO9001 international quality standard and ISO14001 environmental management standard.

MACOM has more than 75 years of application expertise with multiple design centers, Si, GaAs, and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. In addition, MACOM offers foundry services that represents a key core competency within our business.

MACOM sells and distributes products globally via a sales channel comprised of a direct field sales force, authorized sales representatives, and leading industry distributors. Our sales team is trained across all of our products to give our customers insights into our entire portfolio.

Summary of Role:

MACOM is seeking a self-motivated, enthusiastic engineering lab technician to join and contribute to our growing engineering lab developing breakthrough high power RF devices.

Job Description:

• Perform PCB assembly using solder dispense, hot plate, and heat gun to maintain quality builds.
• Background in PCB repair and modification is a plus.
• The ability to solder small case size (01005 and 0201) components to evaluation boards or within package with use of a microscope is desired.
• Desirable to have a background working with RF and microwave products that operate from DC to 18 GHz. Product background should consist of a working knowledge of driver amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, and high-power amplifiers.
• Requires working with designers to support tuning/improving/changing the products mentioned to present solutions for desired customer/engineering requirements.
• Use of lumped elements such as capacitors, inductors, and resistors to perform product tuning or enhancement with support from the engineering team.
• Desirable to have a background and a working knowledge of how to operate and perform test setups using such equipment as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, oscilloscopes, signal generators, pulse generators, power supplies, power meters/sensors, and multimeters.
• Maintain a clean workspace and help organize lab/stock when needed.
• Troubleshooting both to the component level and test system setups and applying solid problem-solving techniques to resolve issues in a timely manner are expected.
• Understanding of IC layouts, circuit schematics, and block diagrams are desired for this position to help support communication with designers.
• IPC certification is a plus but not required.

Key Competencies:

• Excellent PCB soldering/rework skills are essential
• Demonstrated ability to carry out defined tasks independently with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of semiconductor and RF concepts
• Good planning, organizational, and prioritization skills
• Deadline and detail oriented
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills

Qualifications:

• Associate's degree in Electronics is a plus or 3 years assembly and measurement experience is required for this position.
• Due to ITAR regulations, only candidates who are U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents, or individuals granted asylum or refugee status) will be considered for this position.
• Working knowledge of MS Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint is expected.

EEO: MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military service, marital status, or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation: MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process, please call +1-978-656-2500 or email HR_Ops@MACOM.com. Provide your name, phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested, and nature of accommodation needed, and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.