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Lab Technician (Contractor)

Etched· Operations
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San JoseContractPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Hands-on Lab Technician to support hardware development and validation, building and debugging prototype servers/racks, executing test procedures, maintaining documentation, and keeping lab environments running across multiple projects.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare mechanical set-ups, test benches, fixtures, and lab environments to support platform validation, inference kernel development, firmware engineering and more across multiple concurrent projects
  • Collect, record, and validate system health data, maintaining accurate and traceable documentation for analysis and quality assurance
  • Monitor equipment performance, identifying anomalies and troubleshooting issues to maintain system integrity and minimize downtime
  • Organize and maintain lab logs, test databases, and results reports, communicating findings clearly to hardware engineers and project teams
  • Enforce lab safety procedures and compliance standards while managing equipment maintenance, inventory, and calibration schedules

Qualifications

  • Experience preparing test benches and hardware fixtures across multiple concurrent projects
  • Strong data collection and documentation habits — accurate, traceable records are second nature to you
  • Comfort organizing and maintaining lab logs, databases, and test reports for a cross-functional engineering audience

Skills

Required:Test bench setup

Benefits

  • Daily lunch and dinner in our office
Last updated Aug 13, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Etched is building frontier inference clusters: co-designs chips, racks, software and manufacturing to push the pareto frontier for AI hardware.

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