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Engineering Technician III

Mountain View, California💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-22 → 2026-07-30

Core

Field support for seismic monitoring, structural health monitoring, power distribution, and communications equipment installation and maintenance.

Role type

Field engineering technician (seismic monitoring)

Builds

Seismic stations and monitoring networks for the USGS Earthquake Science Center

Domain

Geophysics / Seismology / Field Infrastructure

Deliverable

physical/clinical work

Required skills

Electronics installation and repair, digital circuit troubleshooting, electro-mechanical system maintenance, observatory quality seismograph operations, field seismic network software, system integration and testing, heavy lifting and climbing, confined space work

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

Seismometers, data loggers, cellular modems, radios, Linux/Unix, Windows, MAC-OS

Responsibilities

Install new sites and upgrade/maintain existing seismic stations, conduct structural reconnaissance for installation feasibility, monitor station operations and address outages, maintain station documentation and equipment databases, support field response to significant earthquakes, travel to station locations across northern California and the US

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on field technician

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