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Broadcom

Designs chips and software for data centers

Test Equipment Maintenance Technician

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026Deadline 3/22/27
$22 - $31/hr+ Discretionary annual bonus
Entry
Associate's
Fort Collins, CO, USA
In Person
General Maintenance & RepairEquipment Maintenance

About the job

Requirements
  • Strong command of equipment technician fundamentals and comprehensive understanding of wafer fabrication equipment maintenance.
  • Experience maintaining and repairing a wide variety of wafer fabrication equipment.
  • Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and vacuum technology principles and tools.
  • Ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
  • Ability to work in a dynamic environment and deliver results.
  • Track record of self-motivated learning.
  • Legal authorization to work in the United States.
  • An associate degree or higher in Electronics Technology, or equivalent military training.
  • Zero to one year of semiconductor experience, or relevant military and/or technical industry experience.
  • Preferred experience on some or all relevant manufacturing test equipment.
  • Ability to use data modules, including SQCS and CMMS, for data-driven solutions, performance metrics, and data mining or management.
  • Ability to troubleshoot, analyze problems, reason through repair strategies using incomplete but adequate data, and exercise judgment.
  • Ability to complete precise procedures with strict adherence to documented processes, work independently with minimal supervision, and handle complex assignments.
  • Ability to adapt, take initiative and ownership, multitask, work under pressure, and support flexible hours and critical coverage as needed.
  • Ability to collaborate with Equipment Engineering, Production, Process Engineering, Management, Operations, Factory Business Control, Fab IT Systems, and Clean Room Facilities teams.
Responsibilities
  • Sustain, maintain, and improve wafer fabrication equipment in production facilities, supporting existing and new processes.
  • Support new and established equipment tool sets and platforms in the Test Equipment Group.
  • Perform new tooling acceptance and start-up, and optimize and upgrade existing equipment platforms to improve performance.
  • Install, repair, modify, upgrade, and maintain complex integrated circuit manufacturing equipment in a clean room environment.
  • Complete daily maintenance activities and make appropriate CMMS entries; complete preventive maintenance on time at 95% or better.
  • Contribute to equipment improvement and optimization, including tool availability, mean time to repair, and mean time between failures.
  • Determine and document or revise methods and procedures for manufacturing equipment.
  • Provide guidance and training to less experienced technicians and mentor new technicians.
  • Work with engineering and production teams to improve and stabilize platforms, line response, quality, yield, tool reliability, productivity, cycle time, and cost reduction.

About the company

Broadcom designs chips and sells infrastructure software for the companies that run large data centers, telecom networks and corporate IT. Its custom AI processors, built with cloud companies, and its Ethernet switch chips move and process data inside the computer clusters that train AI models. The chip business also makes parts for broadband, wireless, storage and industrial equipment, sold to device makers and cloud operators, while VMware software lets businesses run private clouds and is sold by subscription. Broadcom took its current form in 2016, when Avago Technologies, formed in 2005 from Agilent's chip unit, bought Broadcom Corporation, and it is based in Palo Alto, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2005

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What believers are saying

  • AI demand is surging: AI chip sales more than tripled to $16.7 billion in the quarter ended August 2026.
  • Big orders are booked ahead: Anthropic agreed in April 2026 to take 3.5 gigawatts of Broadcom-built TPU capacity from 2027.
  • Jobs sit on deep profits: Broadcom converts almost half its revenue into free cash, 46% in the August 2026 quarter.

What critics are saying

  • Jobs hinge on one channel: a single distributor bought 32% of Broadcom's fiscal 2025 revenue, up from 28%.
  • Regulators face pressure to act: in July 2026 European cloud firms urged EU antitrust chiefs to pause VMware partner cuts.
  • Software customers resent the pricing: Broadcom swapped VMware's permanent licenses for subscriptions, angering many corporate buyers.

What makes Broadcom unique

  • Broadcom builds chips that customers design: it turns Google's TPU AI processor designs into finished silicon.
  • Broadcom also runs a big software arm: infrastructure software, led by VMware, made 30% of quarterly revenue in August 2026.
  • Broadcom grows by buying: it acquired CA Technologies in 2018, Symantec's enterprise unit in 2019 and VMware in 2023.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

10%

1 year growth

11%

2 year growth

10%
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AI stocks are sliding after a hot inflation report raised the prospect of an interest rate rise. One Motley Fool columnist argues the sell-off is short-sighted and names four stocks to buy for 2027: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), Micron Technology, Nvidia, and Broadcom. Nvidia expects 70% revenue growth next year. Broadcom expects AI semiconductor revenue to rise to $115 billion, up from about $65 billion this year. TSMC, which makes chips for nearly all big tech firms, reported fast third-quarter revenue growth. Micron expects memory chip shortages to worsen in 2027 and 2028, even as new capacity arrives in mid-2027. Its stock trades at 5 times this fiscal year's earnings.

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Oct 19th, 2026
Broadcom stock is down 31.5% from its June peak: is $328.75 cheap enough?

Broadcom shares closed at $328.75 on October 16, 2026, 31.5% below their highest close of the past year, set on June 2. Shareholders lost 5.7% over twelve months, while the S&P 500 returned 16.2%. The stock now trades at 43.7 times trailing earnings, down from 82.1 a year earlier. That is still higher than at 19 of the 35 earlier quarter ends since late 2017. Diluted earnings per share doubled from $3.92 to $7.83, and operating margin rose to 48.5% from 39.0%. AI semiconductor revenue hit $16.7 billion in fiscal Q3 2026, or 56% of the total. Management guided fiscal Q4 revenue to $34.8 billion, up 93%, while analysts expect about $35.6 billion. Broadcom is expected to report on or around December 9, 2026.

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Oct 17th, 2026
Broadcom's $29B lease backstop: how far does $13.7B quarterly cash flow cover it?

Broadcom has backed a customer's five-year compute lease obligations, with maximum potential liability of about $29 billion after full deployment, according to its quarterly filing for the period ended August 2. No payments had been made, and the recorded fair value was immaterial. In a default, the liability would reflect 85% of outstanding covered amounts less equipment proceeds. Exposure rises as racks are deployed and falls as lease payments arrive. The filing also describes conditional financing through customer convertible notes of up to $42 billion, none of which had been issued. Broadcom generated $13.665 billion of free cash flow in the quarter, and held $23.975 billion in cash. The maximum backstop equals about 2.12 quarters of that free cash flow. AI semiconductor revenue reached $16.7 billion.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 16th, 2026
Broadcom CEO says capital, not chips, may be AI's biggest constraint as chip stocks slide

Broadcom chief executive officer Hock Tan says access to capital, not chips, memory or electricity, could become the biggest constraint on AI expansion. Speaking at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore on Monday, he said supply bottlenecks have repeatedly emerged and eased over the past two years. Demand still outstrips supply, Tan said, and the gap could last through 2029 and possibly into 2030. He warned that many investors "have no clue what they are investing in." He noted that OpenAI's annualised revenue nears $50 billion, but said that does not prove lasting profit given high training costs. Intel chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan also pointed to the cost of capital and the need to show returns. Global chip stocks fell, and Broadcom shares traded lower in premarket trading on Thursday.

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Oct 15th, 2026
Broadcom's AI revenue jumps 221% to $16.7B as investor shrugs off slow software drag

Broadcom's AI semiconductor revenue rose 221% to $16.7 billion in fiscal Q3, and management guided Q4 to $21.7 billion, up 236%. It expects to exceed $30 in earnings per share in fiscal 2028. Slower segments are seen as a drag, but software carries a 94% gross margin. Non-AI chip revenue grew 5% to $4.2 billion. Free cash flow reached $13.665 billion, and the company raised its dividend for the 15th straight year to $0.65 a quarter. Shares fell 8.04% in a week to $346.25, leaving them up 0.59% this year. Risks include six custom chip customers, $59.6 billion of fixed-rate debt, and gross margin heading to 73% from 78%. The next earnings report is due December 9, 2026.