Quality Technician

Amperesand • Reno, NV

7d • Onsite

About The Position

Amperesand is reinventing how the world powers its most critical systems. We are facing a once-in-a-generation opportunity for infrastructure disruption. Electricity demand is skyrocketing, driven by AI factories, electric vehicles, and modern industrial growth. Energy supply is shifting to incorporate a more diverse mix of resources – including solar, gas, and batteries – at a massive scale. And yet the power infrastructure behind our latest mega-projects hasn’t meaningfully changed in nearly 100 years. Supply chains for today’s infrastructure equipment can’t match the pace and sophistication of critical energy projects. Amperesand is building hardware and software that rewrites this broken power infrastructure playbook to support a new era of energy abundance. We’ve built a new class of intelligent, software-defined power infrastructure products leveraging a decade of advanced medium voltage Solid State Transformer research that’s now ready for commercial deployment. Our products and solutions go far beyond the capabilities of traditional electrical equipment. We make power systems that are faster to deploy, dramatically smaller and more efficient, and capable of supporting modern, dynamic energy needs for tomorrow’s most demanding energy consumers. Scalable in-house advanced manufacturing capability is our foundation for meeting timeline and quality expectation to serve infrastructure customers around the world. Amperesand is led by breakthrough energy hardware development veterans and funded by top tier investors who share our vision of building a category-defining energy technology company. With hubs in San Francisco, Reno, and Singapore, our global team is laser focused on building foundational technology to solve the most pressing problems in power infrastructure at scale. Join us in building the power foundation of the future! We are seeking an energetic, highly motivated, team-oriented Quality Engineering Technician to be responsible for creating and executing inspection methodologies for electro-mechanical components, subassemblies and testers for Amperesand’s solid state transformers. In this role, you identify and address suspect or nonconforming parts, support engineering with process validation and containment activities, perform experiments, collect and analyze data to determine corrective and preventive actions.

Requirements

• High school diploma.
• Skilled trades training or degree in electronic, mechanical, quality or equivalent demonstrated on-job experience.
• Experience with quality systems in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Experienced in APQP, PPAP, FMEA, DFMEA, PFMEA tasks.
• Knowledge basic statistics, lean manufacturing practices, engineering knowledge of GD&T, electronic test, and measurement systems.
• Ability to effectively communicate common issues and defects to leadership and assist with solutions.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment providing production line leadership and guidance.
• Ability to use IT systems such as Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.
• Able to manipulate data in Excel and databases such as SQL.
• Experience with test and metrology equipment such as multimeters, calipers, oscilloscopes, microscopes, etc.

Responsibilities

• Lead the completion of quality trials working with engineers and other technicians to support new line validations.
• Drive the creation and maintenance of Quality Instruction documents.
• Serve as the on-shift subject matter expert to support production regarding product specifications and criteria that define quality of the product.
• Assist in the identification and resolution of manufacturing quality issues, contain parts or products as needed, sort parts for quality requirements.
• Support root cause issues, best practices, and implementation of corrective actions and countermeasures.
• Lead or participate in continuous improvement activities with engineers and external suppliers.
• Analyze and interpret failure and product data independently, effectively escalating and supporting resolution of defects.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Incentive Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, effective from the start of hire
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401k retirement savings plan through Empower
• Employees receive paid time off (PTO), paid sick days, and paid company holidays
• Commuter Benefits
• 100% paid maternal leave (12 weeks) and paternal leave (6 weeks)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED