Equipment Technician SMT Process and Maintenance
Etched is an AI-hardware company building rack-scale frontier inference clusters.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Etched
Etched co-designs chips, racks, software, and manufacturing systems for efficient inference of frontier AI models, targeting throughput, latency, cost, and power efficiency across prefill and decode workloads.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will maintain, troubleshoot, and support SMT production equipment and daily process operations. You will perform preventive and corrective maintenance, manage equipment readiness, support changeovers and new-product introductions, and investigate recurring failures. You will train operators, document work, follow safety controls, and work with production, engineering, and quality to improve uptime and product quality.
Requirements
- Technical certificate, diploma, apprenticeship, or equivalent practical experience in electronics, electrical engineering, mechatronics, automation, or a related discipline
- Experience maintaining or troubleshooting SMT equipment or comparable automated manufacturing equipment
- Knowledge of SMT assembly processes and common production defects
- Ability to read equipment manuals, electrical schematics, and mechanical drawings
- Ability to use diagnostic tools and test equipment
- Ability to follow procedures, document work accurately, and prioritize production support
- Communication skills
- Ability to perform hands-on maintenance and provide occasional overtime or weekend support
Responsibilities
- Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on SMT production equipment
- Diagnose and repair mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, sensor, and equipment-control faults
- Document root causes and corrective actions and coordinate with suppliers or service engineers
- Maintain feeders, nozzles, tooling, wear components, service records, and critical spares
- Perform equipment checks, adjustments, and calibrations
- Support line setup, first-piece verification, changeovers, and new-product introductions
- Monitor printing, placement, and reflow performance for process drift and defects
- Investigate equipment and process issues using alarms, inspection results, and production data
- Support reflow-profile verification and parameter adjustments under engineering direction
- Identify opportunities to reduce downtime, repeat failures, changeover time, and scrap
- Train operators on equipment care, troubleshooting, and setup practices
- Communicate equipment status and outstanding issues across shifts
- Follow ESD, LOTO, machine-safety, PPE, and housekeeping requirements
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- $500 monthly credit for waiving medical benefits
- $2,500 monthly housing subsidy for employees living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for moves to San Jose
- Wellness benefits covering fitness and mental health
- Daily lunch and dinner in the office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification