Qualcomm
Engineering Technician - Cambridge, UK
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Engineering Technician - Cambridge, UK
Where you will be working
Cambridge, located in the East of England, 50 miles north of London, is a unique and beautiful city, renowned for its world-class university and the thriving cluster of high technology businesses that have grown up around it. Cambridge is well served by road and rail links, and is within easy distance of the major London airports
About Us
At our Cambridge site we are focused on pioneering IoT and automotive technologies, with engineering areas of excellence including, Analogue and Digital Design, Voice and Music (Hardware, Software, OEM Support, Innovation).
Cambridge is our largest office in the UK, with more than 600 team members including engineers, business strategists and support staff.
Equal Opportunities & Equal Pay
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.
Giving Back
Employees in Cambridge have a strong sense of community. We are encouraged through the philanthropic endeavours of the Qualcomm Foundation to support causes that matter to us.
What’s On Offer
Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:
- Flexible Working Options
- Salary, stock and performance related bonus
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Employee stock purchase scheme
- Matching pension scheme
- Education Assistance
- Relocation and immigration support
- Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
- Subsidised gym membership
- Bicycle purchase scheme
- Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more
Job Overview
The CPU design team deliver high performance cores to the industry; these cores are used in a number of end applications such as data centres, mobile phones, laptop, industrial, robotics and automotive. Key to the success of this team is the ability to deliver high performance, energy efficient cores and this can only be achieved with a clear understanding of the power and performance of the platforms.
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We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, and reliable individual to join our team in Cambridge to work in a variety of operational aspects.
The successful candidate will be required to modify PCBs to enable detailed power measurements to be made. Typically, this will mean adding current sense resistors to PCBs; this requires a high level of board rework experience. In addition, the successful candidate will be responsible for running some workloads to exercise the system while monitoring the power and performance.
The technician roles are central to the success of the performance analysis team and finding a candidate whose attitude, technical interests and personal qualities are a good fit with the team is essential. Applications are therefore invited from all candidates with 5+* years of relevant experience, with no upper limit implied.
Day-to-day Responsibilities Will Typically Include
- Modifying consumer platforms to enable power measurements to be made.
- Building up test systems to enable power measurements to be taken.
- Planning/scheduling future testing
- Managing test equipment and equipment calibration, working alongside our Lab Management team.
- Undertaking routine test system maintenance
- Building and assembling electronic/electrical/electro-mechanical test system components.
- Ensuring the lab is aligned with our ESD policy and COSHH procedures.
- On occasions, you may be asked to support our in-house board manufacturing team with board modifications and testing.
Essential Technical Experience
- Excellence in soldering and PCB assembly rework skills, especially SMT
- Experience of working in a lab environment
- Experience of bench level mechanical assembly
- Experience of using standard test equipment such as oscilloscopes
- Understanding of the electronics environment, semiconductor industry.
- Able to read and interpret circuit diagrams
- Familiar with Microsoft Office applications, Word, Excel etc.
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Desirable Technical Experience
- Experience of ESD Handling procedures
- Experience of working with test automation
- Experience of advanced soldering techniques, e.g., chip reflow
- Experience of test equipment such as DAQs.
- Ability to use python programming language
Attitude and Personal Qualities
- Self-motivated
- An excellent communicator
- Adaptable
- A team player with good interpersonal skills
- Comfortable with responsibility and with taking responsibility on behalf of the team
- Comfortable with managing their own work
- Results-driven
- Prepared to “go the extra mile” to help the team out
- Strong interpersonal skills
- A task-orientated individual with a proven track record of delivering to schedule
- Resourceful and good at solving logistical problems
- Able to prioritise own work
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Consistently pays a high level of attention to detail throughout all aspects of their work.
- Actively seeking to continue their own training and development
- A leader by example who inspires and re-enforces a good attitude and strong work ethic in their colleagues
Education
Minimum Qualifications
HNC or equivalent qualification preferred or NVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline.
Work Experiences
5+* years basic electrical/electronic engineering, electronics or RF testing, or related experience, working in a lab environment.
References to a particular number of years’ experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfil the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.
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