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Lab Technician (Contractor)
San Jose · Contract
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About the role
- You'll work closely with lab operations team and hardware engineers to ensure data integrity and help us move fast without cutting corners.
Responsibilities
- Prepare mechanical set-ups, test benches, fixtures, and lab environments to support platform validation, inference kernal development, firmware engineering and more across multiple concurrent projects
- 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
Requirements
- Experience preparing test benches and hardware fixtures across multiple concurrent projects
- Comfort organizing and maintaining lab logs, databases, and test reports for a cross-functional engineering audience
- Familiarity with lab safety compliance and managing equipment maintenance, inventory, and calibration schedules
Benefits
- Collect, record, and validate system health data, maintaining accurate and traceable documentation for analysis and quality assurance
Company info
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes.
- We are a fully in-person team in San Jose and Taipei, and greatly value engineering skills.
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