Field Service Engineer

Santa Barbara Infrared, Inc. is currently recruiting for the position of Field Service Engineer.

Santa Barbara Infrared, Inc. (SBIR) is a very successful, fast-paced subsidiary of HEICO Corporation, (NYSE: HEI, HEI.A). For more than 60 years, HEICO has thrived by serving segments of the aerospace, defense, and electronics industries by providing innovative and cost-saving products and services. Forbes Magazine has ranked HEICO as one of the 200 "Best Small Companies" and 200 "Hot Shot Stocks".

Santa Barbara Infrared, Inc. designs and manufactures the most technologically advanced Infrared (IR) and Electro-Optical (E-O) test instrumentation. SBIR's broad line of innovative products support testing of military and commercial sensor systems for world-wide use in laboratory, production, depot and field test applications. SBIR's high-energy, dynamic culture focuses our Team Members on providing quality products and services to our customers. We provide highly integrated, well-engineered, cost effective hardware and software solutions to the E-O community. In doing so, SBIR has become the preferred supplier to major domestic and international manufacturers of commercial and military E-O sensors and systems.

$130,000/yr. - $150,000/yr. -- DOE

Full-Time, M-F

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Field Installation and Repairs

• Diagnoses cause(s) of electrical or mechanical malfunction or failure of products and equipment and performs repairs and preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Perform and document systematic failure analysis, troubleshooting and repair of nonconforming products
• Diagnose and document the cause(s) of electrical, optical, and/or mechanical malfunctions or failure of operational equipment and perform preventative and corrective maintenance.
• Programs and debugs circuit boards with embedded microprocessors.
• Manages key customer maintenance agreements and all aspects of support for the customer

Integrates and tests infrared testing systems.

• Test and certify electro-optical performance and calibration of SBIR products in accordance with applicable procedures. Perform and verify precise adjustments as deemed appropriate to ensure component and/or system-level conformance with requirements.
• Provide expert measurement support to the engineering staff in order to facilitate failure analysis and/or design characteristics optimization of SBIR products and equipment.
• Modify and/or test electro-optical prototypes in accordance with engineering staff instructions.
• Create calibration, configuration and test procedures for SBIR products.
• Configures embedded controllers and creates and loads calibration data.
• Applies Good computer skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer). Excel skillset includes use of Excel math functions and statistics (mean, standard deviation) and creating graphs.
• Applies experience reading and using BOMs, assembly drawings, and electrical schematics.

Required travel for field work is estimated at 25 -- 50% of work time, but may be more during surge periods.