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Electronic Equipment Engineer

Aleron
United States, California, Palo Alto
May 26, 2026


Description
Job Title: Electronic Equipment Engineer
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Employment: Direct Placement
Industry: Manufacturing
Compensation: $80K-$100K/year.
Schedule: 40 hours/week - 1 st shift
About the Opportunity:
  • The client seeks an engineer who is more than a desk engineer.
  • They need to understand hardware, circuits, test systems, power supplies, controls, instrumentation, high-voltage systems, and how all of those affect production.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
  • Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
  • Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
  • People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
  • Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
  • This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
  • Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
  • Analyze analog, digital, and power circuits.
  • Read and understand detailed schematics.
  • Troubleshoot at the system and circuit level.
  • Understand high-voltage power supplies, modulators, pulse systems, interlocks, controls, and protection circuits.
  • Use oscilloscopes, differential probes, current transformers, HV probes, data loggers, and other test equipment.
  • Understand grounding, shielding, noise, transients, pulse behavior, and measurement errors.
  • Work with PLCs, control systems, sensors, relays, and interlocks.
  • Support RF-related test equipment and instrumentation.
  • Develop test plans and commissioning procedures.
  • Review equipment failures and determine root cause.
  • Write specifications for new test systems and replacement equipment.
  • Evaluate vendor proposals for technical fit, not just price.
  • Support CapEx justifications with practical technical and business reasoning.
  • Lead equipment upgrade projects.
  • Help replace obsolete systems with modern equipment.
  • Work with vendors such as ScandiNova, Colorado Power, DTI, Ampegon, Stangenes, and others
  • Create practical specifications.
  • Review layouts, power requirements, cooling requirements, safety requirements, and commissioning plans.
  • Support CapEx planning and justify upgrades based on downtime, safety, productivity, energy savings, and spare parts risk.
  • Mentor technicians without taking every job away from them.
  • Help build training material for younger technicians.
  • Transfer knowledge before senior people retire.
  • They will be managing projects.
  • Mentoring/advising the technicians.
Job Requirements
What You'll Bring:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology.
  • 5+ years of experience with circuit analysis and troubleshooting.
  • 5+ years of experience with power electronics, controls, instrumentation, or industrial equipment.
  • 5+ years of experience working with technicians and production equipment.
  • 5+ years of hardware experience.
What Sets You Apart:
  • Strong hardware background.
  • Ability to lead technical projects from concept through commissioning.
  • Ability to write clear technical requirements and review vendor proposals.
  • This person should have strong electrical engineering fundamentals, but also be comfortable troubleshooting real equipment on the production floor.
  • This engineer should be able to lead technical problem solving, support technicians, improve legacy systems, write specifications for replacement equipment, work with vendors, and help modernize aging test infrastructure.
  • The engineer should be comfortable with or capable of learning:
    1. Klystron test systems.
    2. Coupled cavity tube test systems.
    3. TWT and magnetron support equipment.
    4. High-voltage modulators.
    5. PFN systems.
    6. Grid pulse systems.
    7. Mod-anode systems.
    8. Crowbar circuits.
    9. Interlock systems.
    10. Heater supplies, bias supplies, magnet supplies, body current monitoring, cathode current monitoring, and RF drive/protection systems.
    11. Legacy systems where the original experts may have retired.
  • Strong electrical fundamentals.
  • Willing to go to the floor and look at the actual equipment.
  • Able to work with technicians respectfully.
  • Able to troubleshoot logically under production pressure.
  • Able to explain technical issues clearly to non-engineers.
  • Does not overcomplicate simple problems.
  • Able to handle old equipment and incomplete documentation.
  • Able to balance safety, production urgency, and long-term reliability.
  • Comfortable with both design review and hands-on troubleshooting.
  • Able to turn a technical problem into a practical action plan.
  • Able to troubleshoot at the system and circuit level.
  • Understand high voltage power supplies.
Additional Information:
  • Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
After you apply, you may receive a call or message from our AI Talent Scout about this role or other opportunities that match your skills and preferences. AI agent role is to help speed up your hiring process by answering questions, confirming basic information, and identifying whether there's a mutual fit.
The call or chat may be recorded so that our recruiting team can review it - they make all final hiring decisions, while AI agent simply helps move you forward faster. The best part? They are available 24/7, so you can connect whenever it's convenient for you.
Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.

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