Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, offering strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. The opportunity below is with one of our clients, a leading global medical technology company. This organization provides a wide range of diagnostic imaging and laboratory diagnostics, as well as advanced therapies and digital health services. Its solutions span prevention and early detection through diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care, empowering healthcare providers worldwide.
Job Title: Engineering Technician
Location: Palo Alto,CA 94304
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: 6:30am to 3:00pm
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
- Assemble, integrate, and test high-power microwave and linear accelerator hardware, including RF structures, waveguides, and pulsed power systems
- Perform precision mechanical assembly, alignment, and installation of accelerator and RF components
- Support high-voltage and pulsed power testing following established safety procedures
- Set up and operate test stands, data acquisition systems, and basic instrumentation (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, power meters)
- Document assembly procedures, test results, and as-built configurations
- Troubleshoot hardware issues and support root-cause analysis of component or system failures
- Follow lab safety, radiation, and electrical safety protocols; contribute to continuous improvement of procedures.
Required Qualifications:
- Associate degree or technical training in engineering technology, electronics, physics, or a related field (or equivalent hands-on experience)
- Experience with mechanical assembly, electronics, or laboratory test equipment
- Ability to read and follow engineering drawings, schematics, and written procedures
- Comfortable working with hands-on hardware in a lab or industrial environment
- Must be able to qualify for required safety authorizations, including radiation and high-voltage work, and comply with all applicable training and safety procedures.
- Must be able to lift and move equipment weighing up to 50 lbs.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with RF, microwave, accelerator, or high-voltage systems
- Experience in an R&D, accelerator, aerospace, or defense laboratory environment
- Experience working collaboratively with engineers and scientists
- Experience with LabVIEW for test stand operation, data acquisition, or basic automation and control
- Ability to read and interpret PCB schematics and circuit diagrams
- Experience diagnosing and troubleshooting electronic circuit issues at the board or system level.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Palo Alto, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $24.89–$27.31 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.