Engineering Lab Technician

Flock•Atlanta, GA

13d•$60,000 - $80,000•Onsite

About The Position

As Flock accelerates R&D across our entire product hardware and mechanical suite, rapid prototyping and early-stage system validation are vital to maintaining engineering velocity. Bringing novel hardware concepts into production requires hands-on assembly, precise lab instrumentation tuning, and systematic technical evaluations. You will build physical prototypes, execute technical board bring-ups, and keep our R&D hardware testing pipelines running efficiently. This isn't a traditional manufacturing assembly-line position, you will work directly on early-stage, experimental hardware prototypes in an R&D environment. This is not a desk-bound design job, you will spend your time in the hardware lab working with physical PCBs, bench instruments, and mechanical fabrication tools. This isn't a static maintenance role, you'll actively feed technical feedback back to engineering teams to refine mechanical, electrical, and software designs.

Requirements

Practical experience in technical engineering or prototyping environments, supporting early-stage hardware development and assembly systems.
Demonstrated capability in hardware fabrication, including advanced soldering, wire harness termination, and PCB-level prototyping.
Technical proficiency operating lab instrumentation such as spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters for power profiling and signal analysis.
Ability to interpret complex electrical schematics, mechanical drawings, and engineering documentation.
Capability to write or modify Linux and Python scripts to drive technical automation, instrument control, and data acquisition.

Nice To Haves

Experience with additive manufacturing tools, CAD design tools, or 3D printing workflows is a plus.

Responsibilities

Assemble and fabricate hardware prototypes at the PCB level, applying advanced soldering, wire termination, and mechanical assembly techniques.
Perform physical bring-up and QA evaluations on early-stage engineering designs to diagnose hardware malfunctions and optimize performance.
Utilize spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters to execute power profiling, signal verification, and system tuning.
Operate additive manufacturing technologies to build mechanical components and iterate on pre-production physical prototypes.
Manage firmware deployments and software release installations across physical testing hardware in the R&D lab environment.
Document comprehensive technical SOPs, diagnostic guides, and test records to support expanding lab infrastructure as operations scale.