Electronics Technician - Cable & Harness Fabrication

9 Mothers • Austin, TX

1d • $75,000 - $95,000 • Onsite

About The Position

9 Mothers is hiring an Electronics Technician to own hands-on electronics fabrication for its robotic counter-UAS systems and related prototypes. The role focuses primarily on building cables and wire harnesses, wiring compute and control enclosures, and reworking and repairing PCBAs. Workmanship must be clean, durable, and documented for systems used in demanding range conditions.

The technician will build and verify harnesses from schematics, drawings, or engineer sketches; wire enclosures; perform board-level repairs; and develop and run electrical test setups. The role also includes maintaining the electronics lab, documenting test results and build changes, and occasionally traveling to central Texas test ranges to repair equipment and support live-fire events. The position is based onsite in 9 Mothers’ Austin, Texas lab and shop and requires working safely around firearms and live-fire operations.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience as an electronics technician, electrical assembler, or in a similar role building and repairing complex electromechanical hardware.
• Expert-level cable and harness fabrication skills, including crimping, soldering, and pinning, and the ability to select appropriate connectors, wire gauges, and strain relief.
• Proficient soldering and rework skills, including SMT component replacement.
• Ability to read and work from schematics, wiring diagrams, and harness drawings, and to build from an engineer’s verbal description or sketch when a drawing is not available.
• Competence with standard bench equipment, including DMMs, oscilloscopes, and power supplies, and ability to methodically trace electrical faults.
• Meticulous workmanship and documentation habits, including labeling, as-builts, redlines, and test records.
• Comfort working around firearms and live-fire operations and willingness to travel occasionally to central Texas test ranges, including outdoor work in heat and dust.
• Must be a U.S. person (citizen or lawful permanent resident) for ITAR compliance.

Nice To Haves

• IPC/WHMA-A-620, IPC-A-610, or J-STD-001 certification, or demonstrably equivalent workmanship.
• Military electronics maintenance background, such as avionics, armament, or ground systems.
• Experience designing and fabricating simple test fixtures, including basic mechanical work such as drilling, tapping, 3D printing, or panel fabrication.
• Familiarity with motors, servos, actuators, and motion-control wiring on robotic systems.
• Experience with data logging or basic scripting, such as Python, for automated or long-duration tests.

Responsibilities

• Build cables and wire harnesses from schematics, harness drawings, or engineer sketches, including cutting, stripping, crimping, soldering, pinning, and potting as required.
• Work with circular/mil-spec, D-sub, Molex/JST/board-level, RF/coax, and power connectors using appropriate tooling.
• Label, sleeve, and strain-relieve harnesses for outdoor robotic platforms exposed to vibration, heat, dust, and repeated teardown.
• Verify cable and harness builds using continuity, pinout, and insulation-resistance or hipot testing where appropriate; record as-builts and redline drawings.
• Wire compute and control enclosures, including panel layout, component mounting, power distribution, wire routing and dressing, grounding, and shielding.
• Perform point-to-point checkout and initial power-up checks on enclosures before engineering bring-up.
• Build assemblies repeatably so subsequent units match the original build.
• Rework and repair PCBAs, including through-hole and SMT component replacement, ECO or blue-wire modifications, connector replacement, and conformal-coating touch-up.
• Troubleshoot boards and assemblies to identify failed components using bench equipment.
• Build and operate electrical test setups, including cable life/flex tests, actuator fixtures, breakout boxes, load banks, and long-duration soak tests.
• Instrument tests, log results, and report failures with sufficient detail for engineering follow-up.
• Maintain electronics lab equipment, soldering stations, crimp tooling, and supplies of wire, connectors, and consumables.
• Travel occasionally to test ranges to repair harnesses, enclosures, and electronics on deployed systems and support live-fire test events.
• Follow range safety protocols while working around firearms and an active belt-fed shotgun platform.

Benefits

• Meaningful early equity.
• Direct influence on the product and technology roadmap.
• Work on mission-critical counter-threat systems.
• Access to a new lab equipped for rapid prototyping, including NVIDIA Jetsons, high-end scopes, and 3-D printers.
• Employer pays 100% of employee medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums and 50% of dependent healthcare premiums.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Autonomy to make technical decisions with minimal bureaucracy.
• Relocation assistance to Austin.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed