Technician

Doist; Duluth (MN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Spear AI is seeking an experienced manufacturing, troubleshooting and repair technician to join a cross-functional team designing, building, testing, and deploying unmanned maritime sensor systems.

The role emphasizes maritime operations with frequent on-water work, lab work, and collaboration with engineers to improve durability and documentation. You will participate in deployment, maintenance, and recovery of instrumentation from sea and shore environments.

Qualifications

• Exemplary attention to detail and safety.

Responsibilities

• Electrical fabrication: build wiring harnesses and assemble components.
• Mechanical fabrication: fabricate and assemble mechanical components and systems.
• Compute configuration: basic configuration and testing of linux-based compute systems.
• Testing: test components, subsystems, and systems in lab and field.
• Troubleshooting: troubleshoot systems with limited documentation and interact with engineers.
• Maritime operations: lead test operations, deployment, maintenance, and recovery of instrumentation from small boats.
• Engineering interaction: provide feedback to engineers on designs and documentation.

Skills

Attention to detail

Safety focus

Team collaboration

Manual dexterity

Tools

Wiring harnesses

Board population

Board repair

Battery pack fabrication

Job description

Spear AI is seeking an experienced manufacturing, troubleshooting and repair technician. You will be part of a cross functional team designing, building, testing, and deploying unmanned maritime sensor systems. This technician will be cross functional but the emphasis is on maritime operations. Spear AI serves the national security industry and provides hardware, software, and data solutions that span levels of classification and are intended for operational deployment. Spear AI is a rapidly growing company with a commitment to rapid development of excellent products through continuous fielding. You will be in the lab and out on the water frequently.

Responsibilities

• Electrical Fabrication – Build wiring harnesses, assemble electrical components, assemble battery packs
• Mechanical Fabrication – Fabricate and assemble mechanical components and systems for sensor systems and buoys
• Compute configuration – Basic configuration and testing of linux based compute systems.
• Testing – Test components, subsystems and systems in the lab and in the field with limited documentation and procedures.
• Troubleshooting – Troubleshoot systems in the lab and the field with limited documentation and procedures. Interact with engineers to elicit required information and help to improve documentation.
• Maritime Operations – Organize and eventually lead maritime test operations to include deployment, maintenance, and recovery of instrumentation systems from small boats.
• Engineering Interaction – Provide feedback to engineers on designs, durability, documentation, maintainability, and any other relevant aspect of the design. In the future, organize feedback from additional technicians and serve as the focal point for feedback.

Requirements

• Exemplary attention to detail, a focus on quality, and an uncompromising focus on safety.
• Experience with mechanical fabrication techniques such as additive manufacturing, basic machining, composites, welding and assembly.
• Experience with electrical fabrication techniques such as wiring harnesses, board population, board repair and battery pack fabrication.
• Experience with testing both components and systems such as system turn on, pressure testing, cable verification, visual inspection, measurement verification.
• Suitable written and verbal communication skills for working in a high performing development team.
• Ability to physically participate in at sea deployment, test, and recovery operations including ability to lift, carry, and maneuver on shore or on a small boat at sea, communicate verbally, and carry out fine manipulations.
• Ability to physically carry out fine and/or heavy manufacturing and testing sills including fine manipulation abilities and ability to repeatedly lift 50lbs.
• You may be asked to obtain a SECRET security clearance. This will be at no expense to you. For resources on what a security background involves and what disqualifies people reference the CIA requirements.

Desired

• Maritime operations experience including small boat operations, over the side handling, field repair and logistics of a test event.
• Basic experience with the Linux command line.
• Prior experience with mechanical cad especially OnShape
• Prior experience with wiring harness documentation
• A USCG captains license or extensive experience operating small boats
• Veteran status or significant familiarity with and comfort in interacting with both enlisted and commissioned military personnel.
• We hope you'll join our fast growing team!