Legacy Electronics & Media Systems Technician

Legacy Electronics & Media Systems Technician [Heirloom Cloud Corporation](https://heirloom.cloud)is seeking a skilled and curious Legacy Electronics & Media Systems Technician to help preserve priceless family memories and historical archives by maintaining, repairing, restoring, and improving the vintage equipment used to digitize obsolete media. This is a unique opportunity to combine electronics repair, mechanical troubleshooting, fabrication, and innovation while working with one of the nation's fastest-growing media preservation companies. From VHS decks and MiniDV camcorders to film scanners, cassette transports, floppy drives, and professional broadcast equipment, you'll help ensure thousands of irreplaceable memories are successfully rescued every day. If you enjoy solving difficult technical problems, bringing old equipment back to life, and working on technology that most people have forgotten even exists, we'd love to meet you. What Makes This Job Different This isn't a typical electronics repair job. One day you may restore a VHS deck that digitizes a family's wedding from 1987. The next, you might repair a professional U-matic player containing historical government records, fabricate a replacement part for a machine that has been out of production for decades, or develop a better workflow that helps preserve thousands of additional memories each year. Every repair has a purpose. The equipment you maintain helps rescue irreplaceable photographs, videos, films, audio recordings, and digital files before they are permanently lost to deterioration or obsolete technology. As Heirloom continues to grow, you'll have the opportunity to help shape the future of media preservation. Rather than simply maintaining yesterday's machines, you'll play an important role in building tomorrow's preservation systems while ensuring yesterday's technology continues telling its stories. Responsibilities - Diagnose, repair, restore, and maintain legacy audio, video, film, photographic, and computer media playback equipment - Troubleshoot electronic, electrical, mechanical, and electro-mechanical systems - Perform component-level repairs including soldering, capacitor replacement, connector repair, switch replacement, and printed circuit board (PCB) troubleshooting - Replace belts, pinch rollers, idlers, gears, motors, bearings, and other mechanical components - Clean, lubricate, calibrate, and align precision playback equipment - Maintain preventative maintenance schedules for production equipment - Test repaired equipment to ensure reliable operation and consistent digitization quality - Assist Digitizing Specialists with diagnosing equipment-related capture issues - Research repair procedures, service manuals, schematics, and obsolete replacement parts - Source replacement components through suppliers, donor equipment, and custom fabrication - Design and fabricate simple replacement components using 3D printing or other fabrication methods when commercial parts are unavailable - Document repair procedures, maintenance history, and equipment performance - Recommend improvements to production workflows, tooling, and equipment reliability - Assist with evaluating and acquiring vintage equipment to expand production capacity - Support development of innovative preservation technologies and automation systems Skills & Qualifications - Minimum three years of experience repairing electronic or electro-mechanical equipment - Strong troubleshooting skills using logical diagnostic techniques - Experience reading electrical schematics and service manuals - Experience using soldering equipment, multimeters, oscilloscopes, bench power supplies, and other electronic test equipment - Familiarity with motors, gears, belts, bearings, and precision mechanical assemblies - Experience repairing audio/video equipment, broadcast equipment, computers, printers, arcade machines, pinball machines, musical instruments, laboratory equipment, industrial equipm…