Senior Engineering Technician at Garmin International in Santa Barbara, California

Job Description:

GPS Manufacturer/Distributor

As a leading worldwide provider of navigation devices and wearable technology, our focus is on developing, designing and supporting superior products. Our advanced technology promotes performance, safety and ease of use in every market we serve. That makes us an engineering and technology company with a keen focus on recruiting talent in those fields. But the same vertical integration business model that keeps all design and manufacturing processes in-house also gives us the incentive to hire top performers from different backgrounds, including operations, finance and accounting, information technology, sales, marketing and communications.

Associates get the royal treatment at Garmin. Regardless if you’re a newbie or a veteran, engineers dream it, design it and use it. Here, you will be surrounded by others who share the same passion about what they do every day. We offer a relaxed team environment (no dress code!) where advancement is found from sharing knowledge, not hiding it! While we promise you a lot of responsibility, you also will have the opportunity to have ownership over projects…oh, and we promise you there will be some fun mixed in there, too!

Our engineering technicians are part exterminators. They partner with design engineers to debug first prototypes, including new circuits or systems. They may also modify designs and build and test prototype circuits for new products, perform expert-level PCB and unit modifications, including adjusting, calibrating, aligning, and modifying circuitry and components. If you’d like to recommend design improvements for advanced circuitry or improve assembly methods for increased reliability and simplified assembly and maintenance, send us your resume.

We are looking for a full-time Senior Engineering Technician to provide support to our engineering departments at our headquarters in the greater Kansas City area. In this role you will be responsible for recommending design improvements and changes in advanced circuitry or assembly methods to improve reliability or simplify assembly and maintenance. Other essential functions include: 

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  Serves as expert on lab equipment/tools, including maintaining lab test fixtures and apparatus and may design test fixture improvements using standard or automated tools (LabView, Visual Basic)

  
  


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  Creates system integration benches and loads software as needed

  
  


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  Leverages understanding of system interconnects and wiring practices and is able to diagnose and correct connection and wiring problems and/or create system wiring diagrams

  
  


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  Leverage understanding of system wiring and create wiring diagrams for harness fabrication

  
  


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  Write technical reports, including documentation of the test setup, block diagrams, and test setup schematics to fully document test results and analysis

  
  


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  Set up, run and complete detailed qualification plans and reports (DV, PV, ELOT, DO160, live GPS testing, FCC/CE, etc.) with little direction and produces error free reports

  
  


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  Able to lead or assist with new component evaluation and qualification including LCDs, SD cards, Flash/DRAM die shrink, power supplies, etc.

  
  

Qualified candidates possess an Associate’s Degree in Electronics Engineering Technology or Computer Engineering Technology or another substantially similar electronics or technical field AND a minimum of 4 years’ experience performing a role substantially similar to the essential functions of this job description. Other requirements include: 

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  Demonstrated understanding of advanced level schematic designs and design of test circuits

  
  


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  Must demonstrate expert proficiency using lab equipment and tools including ability to efficiently create test setups and advanced level designs

  
  


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  Demonstrates understanding of electrical engineering/software system interactions and can differentiate between hardware and software problems

  
  

Our benefits are designed to lead an evolving marketplace, support innovation and encourage a healthy balance between work and life. They allow our associates to make their own decisions about their wellbeing and future and consistently rank Garmin as a top tier benefits provider when compared to other high-tech employers. We offer a choice of high value medical, dental and vision plans with low or no premiums, to fit your and your family’s preferences. In addition, Garmin’s financial benefits include a generous 401K retirement plan that provides 5% of pay base contribution plus a match of 75 cents for every dollar you contribute to a maximum of 10% of your compensation. The employee stock purchase plan allows for shares to be bought at a 15% discount. Garmin offers many other benefits and perks ranging from wellbeing initiatives, educational assistance and career development, community charity support, and employee discounts just to name a few.

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.