Engineering Lab Manager

About the Role

What You’ll Do

What We’re Looking For

Nice to Have

• Experience with basic soldering, rework, or electronics assembly
• Exposure to robotics, electromechanical systems, or a hardware startup environment
• Comfort using tools like Notion, Jira, or similar for tracking and documentation.
• Experience with PLM tools, such as TeamCenter or Arena. For this role in Massachusetts, the expected base salary range is $65-85K USD per year; your placement in that range depends on how your experience maps to our internal leveling.
• Experience with PLM tools, such as TeamCenter or Arena.
• For this role in Massachusetts, the expected base salary range is $65-85K USD per year; your placement in that range depends on how your experience maps to our internal leveling.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in an electronics, engineering, or hardware lab environment — through work or school.
• Demonstrated experience managing physical inventory: receiving, tracking, reorder thresholds, vendor coordination in a lab, warehouse, makerspace, or production environment.
• Familiarity with component and inventory management tools or systems
• Comfort handling and organizing electronic components, PCBAs, cables, and lab equipment
• Expertise with ESD handling protocols for sensitive electronic components and assemblies.
• Strong attention to detail and a natural tendency to keep shared spaces organized and functional
• Strong communication skills and comfort working closely with technical teams
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-moving environment
• This role requires the ability to lift and carry equipment and materials weighing up to 40 lbs as part of regular lab duties

Responsibilities

• Own lab organization — maintain a clean, safe, and well-organized lab environment. Keep workbenches, storage, and shared spaces in order so the team can work efficiently.
• Engineering inventory management — track and restock components, consumables, tools, and lab equipment. Own the procurement process for day-to-day lab needs, working with vendors and internal stakeholders to keep things moving. Kit parts for engineering builds and repairs.
• Support hardware and equipment — assist engineers with equipment setup, basic maintenance, and calibration of lab tools including oscilloscopes, power supplies, soldering stations, and test fixtures. Flag equipment issues and coordinate repairs or replacements.
• Facilitate general lab operations — coordinate deliveries, manage lab access, support onboarding of new team members to lab tools and processes, and help enforce lab safety policies.
• Support the team day-to-day — pitch in where needed across a small, busy engineering team. This might mean helping set up a demo, organizing a shipment, or sourcing a hard-to-find component quickly.
• Hands-on experience in an electronics, engineering, or hardware lab environment — through work or school.
• Demonstrated experience managing physical inventory: receiving, tracking, reorder thresholds, vendor coordination in a lab, warehouse, makerspace, or production environment.
• Familiarity with component and inventory management tools or systems
• Comfort handling and organizing electronic components, PCBAs, cables, and lab equipment
• Expertise with ESD handling protocols for sensitive electronic components and assemblies.
• Strong attention to detail and a natural tendency to keep shared spaces organized and functional
• Strong communication skills and comfort working closely with technical teams
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-moving environment
• This role requires the ability to lift and carry equipment and materials weighing up to 40 lbs as part of regular lab duties