Senior Reliability Technician

Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea and aircraft;

automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment.

Mini-Circuits’ sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.

The Senior Reliability Technician provides advanced hands-on support to the Reliability Engineering team in the execution of product qualifications, environmental and reliability stress testing, sample preparation, inspection, data collection, and failure analysis activities for RF and microwave electronic components.

This position is responsible for coordinating and executing routine laboratory activities, preparing and monitoring reliability tests, performing visual and electrical inspections, troubleshooting test setups and equipment, maintaining accurate records, and supporting investigations related to product performance and qualification results.

The Senior Reliability Technician also helps coordinate laboratory priorities, improves laboratory practices, and provides technical guidance to less-experienced technicians. This role requires strong troubleshooting skills, careful attention to detail, sound technical judgment, and effective communication with Engineering, Quality, Production, external laboratories, and third-party reliability partners.

$35.00 - $42.00 per hour

• Execute and coordinate reliability qualifications for new products, product or process changes, vendor qualifications, and customer-specific requirements.
• Review approved test plans, procedures, sample requirements, and work instructions before testing.
• Prepare samples through labeling, serialization, inspection, handling, and loading into fixtures, test boards, ovens, or environmental chambers.
• Set up, verify, monitor, and complete temperature cycling, high-temperature storage, humidity, HTOL, THB, HAST, MSL preconditioning, vibration, and mechanical-shock testing.
• Verify test conditions, chamber profiles, bias conditions, monitoring channels, fixture connections, and data-acquisition settings.
• Perform and document pre-test, interim, and post-test visual and electrical inspections.
• Troubleshoot equipment, fixtures, test boards, cabling, contact issues, and basic electrical abnormalities.
• Identify and report abnormal samples, equipment problems, unexpected conditions, test interruptions, and potential reliability concerns.
• Maintain complete records of sample status, serial numbers, test conditions, inspection results, failures, photographs, and observations.
• Review test records for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and traceability.
• Organize test data and prepare summaries and status updates for engineering review.
• Support failure analysis by preparing and tracking samples and coordinating CSAM, X-ray, cross-sectioning, decapsulation, microscopy, SEM, and other analysis methods.
• Coordinate with third-party laboratories regarding requirements, sample information, schedules, progress, and results.
• Operate and support environmental chambers, ovens, microscopes, power supplies, multimeters, data loggers, and related laboratory equipment.
• Support equipment calibration, preventive…