Test Engineering Technician (Contract)

Test Engineering Technician (6 month contract)

Engineering technicians will play an instrumental role in the success of Lunar Energy by helping to build and test all of our key hardware products in a lab environment.  We're looking for someone to be both hands-on with our products as well as a leader to shape and manage a growing technician organization. We are looking for people who are passionate about a more sustainable and energy-independent future and want to make that vision a reality. An ideal candidate is someone excited to collaborate with a diverse and dedicated team.

Lunar nergy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy-making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We're a fast-growing, global company building the world's best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

On a given day at Lunar, you'll likely:

• Support engineering prototype builds of complex electromechanical assemblies.
• Perform troubleshooting on circuits, down to device level, in collaboration with the EE team.
• Perform soldering, mechanical assembly, and fabrication of simple test boxes and cables
• Perform system and equipment level testing per Engineering direction
• Experience with prototype builds, test, and fixture builds
• Experience with CAD work and software such as Shape, Solid works
• Prepare test articles and support post-test product tear-downs in collaboration with reliability and test teams.
• Feedback on product performance/inadequacies to Engineering
• Evaluate technician requirements and support the build-out of the Lunar technician organization.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and organized working environment throughout builds and engineering tests.
• Safely manage materials and equipment 

Desired Skills: 

• Associate degree in Electronics, or similar, and/or 5 years of experience in the field
• 5+ years of experience working in an R&D or development lab environment in close collaboration with engineering staff.
• Good interpersonal skills with ability to work effectively with other individuals in a team or project setting
• You are self-motivated and able to work with little supervision, consistently take the initiative to get things done, and do things before being asked by others.
• Ability to consistently make timely decisions even in the face of complexity; balancing systematic analysis with decisiveness
• Some Production support experience, software development experience

Benefits:

We're dedicated to creating a remarkable employee experience. At Lunar, competitive base pay is one part of our total compensation package. Lunar employees also have the opportunity to become Lunar shareholders by getting equity in a fast-growing company and participating in our employee stock program.

Additional benefits include: 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Flexible Paid Time Off plus 10 paid holidays
• Tax deferred 401(k) plan 
• Paid parental leave for all full time employees including 12 weeks paid parental leave for the birthing mother and 6 weeks paid parental leave for the non-birthing parent 
• Subsidized EV charging and pre-tax commuter benefits

Our DE&I Philosophy: Lunar Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining diverse talent by supporting an inclusive workplace. Lunar recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by applicable law.

Our Compensation Philosophy: Our goal is to ensure that all Lunar Energy employees are fairly compensated. Please note that the hourly range information that follows is a good faith estimate for this position provided pursuant to the Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act for California applicants. The hourly range estimate for this position depending on level of experience is $35-$75 USD

The actual offer, reflecting the total compensation package & benefits, will be at the company's sole discretion, and determined by factors including but not limited to years of experience, job level, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. The company also reserves the right to amend or modify this job description, employee perks, and benefits at any time.