
Engineering Technician – Electronics
Motorola Solutions · Irvine, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 5+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level manufacturing role at Motorola Solutions (industrial) in Irvine, CA. Build, validate, and document reference test configurations and assembly workflows for transfer to contract manufacturers (CMs).
- They ask for
- 5+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, Painting / coating, Tooling
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How this role compares
Against 277 other live manufacturing postings in California.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (5+ years)
Typical $109k–$153k, from 101 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Tooling 59%
- ✓ New product launch 54%
- ✓ Root cause 45%
- Automation 35%
- CATIA / NX 34%
- Machining 33%
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Stands out: this posting asks for Painting / coating, Python, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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responsibilities
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Responsibilities
- ◆Development Testing & Execution: Execute detailed functional, parametric, and performance tests on cutting-edge RF, digital, and mechanical designs under the direction of hardware development engineers.
- ◆Product Qualification Support: Support Product Qualification team for environmental stress testing, including thermal cycle, humidity, shock, and vibration testing, to comply with internal quality plans and standards.
- ◆Hands-On Laboratory Operations: Perform precision SMT soldering and rework down to fine-pitch and 0201 component sizes. Construct custom test fixtures, fabricate complex cable/wire harnesses, and perform mechanical prototype assemblies.
- ◆Hardware Debugging & Troubleshooting: Assist Engineers with isolating component-level, board-level, and system-level defects. Read electrical schematics and use standard laboratory diagnostic tools to identify root causes of hardware anomalies or failures.
- ◆Test Equipment Management: Set up, calibrate verification, and operate standard RF and electronic lab instruments, including Vector Network Analyzers (VNAs), Spectrum Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes, Vector Signal Generators, Power Meters, and Programmable Power Supplies.
- ◆Manufacturing & NPI Support: Interface with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Production teams to assist with New Product Introduction (NPI). Build, validate, and document reference test configurations and assembly workflows for transfer to contract manufacturers (CMs).
- ◆Data Collection & Documentation: Systematically log, analyze, and format raw test data. Maintain meticulous engineering notebooks, create structured failure analysis reports, and draft standard operating procedures (SOPs) for newly designed test setups.
- ◆Lab Maintenance & Safety: Maintain a clean, organized, safe, and ESD-compliant laboratory environment. Track lab tools, coordinate routine calibration intervals for specialized instrumentation, and manage electronic component inventories.
- ◆Perform other related duties of which the above are representative.
Required qualifications
- ✓High School Diploma or GED with 5 years of direct electronics or RF hardware support experience.
- ✓Proven capability to read, interpret, and navigate complex electrical schematics, PCB layout prints, assembly drawings, mechanical drawings, and multi-tier Bills of Materials (BOMs).
- ✓Exceptional hands-on skills with mechanical assembly and soldering, including the ability to reliably replace fine-pitch ICs, QFNs, and passive components under a laboratory microscope.
- ✓Knowledge of hand assembly tools and common screw types.
- ✓Possess an understanding of component sizes/packages and wire gauges.
- ✓Strong familiarity with the fundamental operation of digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, variable power supplies, and electronic loads.
- ✓Familiarity with basic scripting environments (e.g., Python, LabVIEW) to control instrumentation via GPIB, USB, or Ethernet interfaces is highly desirable.
- ✓Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- ✓Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. Citizen, or U.S. Permanent Resident) due to clients under U.S. federal contracts.
- ✓All employment is contingent upon the successful clearance of a background check and drug test.
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Company Overview
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.
Department Overview
Silvus Technologies, a leading provider of advanced MANET and MIMO communications systems, is reshaping mesh network technology for mission-critical applications – on the ground, in the air and at sea. Its battle-proven StreamCaster family of MANET radios and proprietary MN-MIMO waveform provides the vital communications link for defense, law enforcement and public safety agencies around the world, and in the toughest operational environments.
Silvus Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Job Description
Would you like to join an incredibly talented group of people, doing very challenging work, with the prime directive of “ Keeping Our Heroes Connected ”?
The opportunity
Silvus is seeking an Engineering Technician - Electronics with a strong Electrical Engineering foundation and working knowledge of mechanical components. This individual will perform hands-on electronics laboratory work, execute extensive product qualification and environmental stress tests, assist design engineers with component-level debugging, and facilitate smooth transitions to manufacturing (NPI). This position reports to the Senior Engineering Director on the Engineering team.
This position is 100% onsite, Monday through Friday, at Silvus Technologies’ Engineering and R&D Office in
Irvine, CA, near the vibrant Irvine Spectrum.
The following is a list of at least some of the current essential job functions of the position. Management may assign or reassign duties and
Preferred knowledge, skills, and abilities
- +Associates degree in Electronics Engineering Technology (ASET) or a related technical field.
- +Basic knowledge of digital electronics systems and RF system design.
- +Working knowledge of thermal interface materials, gaskets, thread locker, and conformal coating.
- +Familiarity with environmental and reliability standards (e.g. IP, IPC, JEDEC, MIL-STD).
- +Ability to manage priorities across several projects and operate with a high level of independence.
- +Exceptional methodical troubleshooting and critical thinking skills, with the endurance to stick with complex intermit
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