Lab Technician - Skydio - Zurich, Switzerland
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Job Description
We are looking for a highly hands-on Lab Technician based in Zurich to support prototype builds, hardware testing, lab operations, and cross-site engineering work. This role is for someone with a broad practical skillset across prototype fabrication, electrical testing, soldering/rework, cable harnessing, prototype debugging, and light software or scripting. You might spend one day designing and fabricating a fixture, reworking a connector, debugging a test setup, modifying a script, organizing prototype inventory, and helping an engineer bring up hardware. You will own hands-on support for prototype systems in Zurich and travel regularly to our California HQ, with occasional travel to Finland, to support builds and testing across teams.
Company Information
| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Remote - Global | 78 |
| Remote | 8 |
| Tampere, Finland | 5 |
| Remote - Finland | 3 |
| Zurich, Switzerland | 1 |
| Remote - Switzerland | 1 |
| Remote - Germany | 1 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Solutions Engineer | 6 |
| Software Engineer | 6 |
| Autonomy Engineer | 6 |
| Autonomy Engineer Intern | 4 |
| Product Manager | 4 |
| Enterprise Account Manager | 3 |
| Customer Success Manager | 3 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 2 |
| Embedded Software Engineer | 2 |
| Program Manager | 2 |
| Electrical Engineer | 2 |
| Technical Recruiter | 2 |
| Human Resources Specialist | 2 |
| Customer Support Representative | 1 |
| Sales Representative | 1 |
| Coordinator | 1 |
| Supply Chain Specialist | 1 |
| Camera Test Engineer | 1 |
| Electronics Engineer | 1 |
| Technical Support Specialist | 1 |
| Product Design Engineer | 1 |
| Service Coordinator | 1 |
| Product Quality Engineer | 1 |
| Systems Integration and Test Engineer | 1 |
| Manufacturing Business Process Intern | 1 |
| Data Engineer | 1 |
| Workplace Experience Coordinator | 1 |
| Business Recruiter | 1 |
| Senior Technical Recruiter | 1 |
| Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst | 1 |
| Support Specialist | 1 |
| Logistics Coordinator | 1 |
| Engineering Manager | 1 |
| Growth Marketing Director | 1 |
| Full Stack Developer | 1 |
| Deployment Engineer | 1 |
| Communications Manager | 1 |
| Supply Chain Manager | 1 |
| Hardware Test and Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Hardware Operations Program Manager | 1 |
| Revenue Operations Engineer | 1 |
| Field Marketing Event Manager | 1 |
| RF Design Engineer | 1 |
| Aviation Regulatory Program | 1 |
| Mission Success Operations | 1 |
| PCB Layout Engineer | 1 |
| Electrical Engineer Intern | 1 |
| Product Management Director | 1 |
| Deployment Coordinator | 1 |
| Supply Chain Intern | 1 |
| Supplier Quality Engineer | 1 |
| Proposal Analyst | 1 |
| Autonomy Software Engineer | 1 |
| Autonomy Data Curation Engineer | 1 |
| Data Analyst | 1 |
| Production Supervisor | 1 |
| Support | 1 |
| Product Marketing | 1 |
| Head of Warehouse & Logistics Operations | 1 |
| Designer | 1 |
| Wireless Hardware Engineer | 1 |
| Production Manager | 1 |
| Repair Program Manager | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Mid-Level | 77 |
| Manager | 1 |
| Mid-level | 1 |
Skydio appears in 97 indexed job postings in JobCrawls' Finland dataset since October 2023. In that historical index, the strongest location signals for this employer are Remote - Global, Remote, and Tampere, Finland.
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Job Details
Responsibilities
- Support prototype builds, testing, debugging, and lab operations in Zurich.
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair prototype hardware.
- Perform mechanical assembly, soldering, wiring, cable harnessing, board inspection, basic rework, and electrical debug.
- Write or modify simple scripts, config files or firmware parameters to support bring-up, testing, and troubleshooting of prototype vehicles.
- Regularly travel to California HQ to support early builds, learn new hardware, and transfer build/test knowledge back to Zurich.
- Periodically travel to Finland to support camera test and lab-related work with the local engineering team.
Requirements
- Broad hands-on experience with drones, robotics, camera systems, test rigs, or similar electromechanical hardware.
- Comfort working across mechanical, electrical, software and testing domains.
- Practical electrical skills including surface mount soldering, wiring, harness assembly and basic debugging.
- Comfort with software including scripting, modifying test code, reading logs, changing configuration files and tuning vehicle control parameters.
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