Room-Temp Rack Engineer for Quantum Instrumentation

HCL Technologies Limited; Redmond; On-site; AUD 79,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off (10 days/year)

10 paid holidays

Job summary

HCLTech is seeking a hands-on Server Rack Technician to assemble, configure, and maintain room-temperature electronics racks for lab instrumentation and RF hardware. You will support instrument bring-up, networked equipment, and software-controlled setups, while collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams in a technically demanding environment.

The role requires lifting 40 lbs, working in moderately tight spaces, and willingness to travel for installation and maintenance activities.

Qualifications

• Hands-On Lab & Electronics Experience.
• Familiarity with basic electronics, ESD-safe handling, and laboratory best practices.
• Comfort working with rack-mounted equipment, instrumentation cabling, power distribution, labelling, and physical lab setup.
• Ability to follow, redline, and improve written procedures while preserving configuration control and engineering intent.
• Ability to lift 40 lbs for more than 1 minute and work in moderately tight spaces ~1 m deep for >5 minutes.
• Interest in travel to support rack installation, upgrade, maintenance, or lab bring-up activities.
• More than 2 years of experience with Python 3.x.
• Familiarity with DHCP and networking best practices for laboratory and instrumentation environments.

Responsibilities

• Assemble, cable, label, and maintain room-temperature electronics racks used for lab instrumentation, control, readout, and test infrastructure.
• Install and configure rack-mounted instruments, power distribution, RF hardware, cabling, patch panels, network-connected equipment, and supporting peripherals.
• Maintain neat rack layouts with cable management, labeling, routing, accessibility, and configuration control.
• Lab Operations—ESD safety and electronics lab practices.
• Operate lab tools and maintain clean, organized spaces.
• Lift 40 lbs and work in tight spaces; travel for rack installation and maintenance.
• Support rack bring-up and first-line debug for instrumentation, RF paths, control hardware, networked equipment, and software-controlled setups.
• Capture photos, rack layouts, cable maps, configuration notes, software versions, network settings, observations for engineering review.

Skills

Hands-On Lab Electronics

Rack hardware handling

Python 3.x

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Physics

Electrical Engineering with physics courses

Mechanical Engineering with physics courses

Tools

Python 3.x

Rack systems

Job description

HCLTech is seeking a hands-on Server Rack Technician to assemble, configure, and maintain room-temperature electronics racks for lab instrumentation and RF hardware. You will support instrument bring-up, networked equipment, and software-controlled setups, while collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams in a technically demanding environment.

The role requires lifting 40 lbs, working in moderately tight spaces, and willingness to travel for installation and maintenance activities.