Instrument Prototyping & Maintenance Engineer

TechDigital Group; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm in Silicon Valley is seeking an Equipment Specialist to join a dynamic team in Fremont, California. This exciting role involves supporting the development of cutting-edge instrumentation for the biopharma industry. You will be responsible for instrument maintenance, assembly, and testing, working closely with engineers to enhance serviceability. If you have a passion for technology and a background in instrument assembly and service, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a growing company. Join a community dedicated to advancing wellness and safety through groundbreaking science and technology.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years' experience in instrument assembly, service, and/or testing.
• Experience with fluidic, electric, optic, and/or mechanical instruments.

Responsibilities

• Complete instrument maintenance, rework, and prototype assembly.
• Conduct and document instrument experiments, QC and testing.
• Service fluidic, electric, optic, and mechanical assemblies.

Skills

Instrument assembly

Instrument service

Testing

Microscope skills

Soldering skills

LabVIEW skills

Education

Associate degree or higher

Job description

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
AWS Discovery, Assessment, VMware Migration, Landing Zone, Terraform, Matilda Discovery, Jenkins, AWS Bedrock, Claude LLM (Good To Have)

Role Summary
Lead the end-to-end migration of VMware-based data center workloads to AWS using Agentic AI-driven migration solutions. Define cloud architecture, migration strategy, governance standards, and technical execution while providing leadership to architects, engineers, and stakeholders throughout the transformation program.

Key Responsibilities
1. Discovery & Assessment
• Lead infrastructure and application discovery using tools such as Matilda, AWS Discovery, Device42, or similar platforms.
• Assess servers, applications, databases, storage, and network dependencies for AWS migration readiness.
• Analyze infrastructure inventory, utilization, business criticality, risks, and remediation requirements.
• Perform migration strategy assessment using the AWS 6R framework (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Re-Architect, Retire, Retain).
2. AWS Architecture & Migration Strategy
• Define target AWS landing zone architecture aligned with enterprise security, networking, and governance standards.
• Develop migration roadmaps, migration waves, sizing recommendations, and cost models.
• Design AWS infrastructure solutions leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, FSx, EFS, Route 53, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, API Gateway, and Lambda.
• Ensure architecture decisions support scalability, resiliency, security, and operational excellence.
3. Agentic AI-Driven Migration Enablement
• Lead migration execution using Agentic AI platforms powered by Claude and AWS AI services.
• Design and implement AI agents, skills, workflows, and automation tools to accelerate migration activities.
• Utilize AI-driven dependency analysis and business prioritization to optimize migration wave planning.
• Drive automated migration validation, testing, cutover, and post-migration verification activities.
4. Migration Execution & Modernization
• Provide technical leadership for VMware workload migration using AWS MGN and related migration services.
• Lead modernization initiatives including containerization and migration to ECS or EKS where appropriate.
• Oversee Windows and Linux upgrades, security hardening, patching, and compliance remediation for migrated workloads.
• Resolve complex migration challenges and ensure successful workload transition to AWS.
5. Cloud Engineering Standards
• Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform.
• Establish cloud architecture patterns, reusable modules, migration standards, and deployment best practices.
• Integrate CI/CD, automation, and configuration management tools to support cloud operations.
6. Governance & Leadership
• Act as trusted advisor to client executives, technical leadership, and Architecture Review Boards.
• Lead architecture governance, technical reviews, risk management, and migration decision-making.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, security, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor architects and engineering teams across cloud, network, security, and platform domains.