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Calibration Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ calibration jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and generous PTO—for a better work-life balance. 8 new this week. Hiring companies include Merck, Marathon Petroleum, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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generous PTO 4
unlimited PTO 6
best places to work 1

Updated September 16, 2026

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Instrument Technician

NEW

11h

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Onsite · Oak Ridge, TN, USA

63 · Good9 Day FortnightPro · early access

Technician Calibration

NEW

Merck · Onsite · Durham, NC, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$58k – $91kPro · early access

Human Resources Business Partner

NEW

Basis · Onsite · New York, NY, USA

56 · GoodUnlimited PTO$150k – $200kPro · early access

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Technical Support Rep 1

United Launch Alliance · Hybrid · Pueblo, CO, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Measurement Technician

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · McAlester, OK, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

ServiceNow · Onsite · Santa Clara, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$176k – $308k

EO/IR Remote Sensing Modeling & Simulation Engineer

The Aerospace Corporation · Onsite · Chantilly, VA, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Data Scientist, Product

Ascend · Hybrid · San Francisco, CA, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior Maintenance Technician

Merck · Onsite · Durham, NC, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$78k – $122k

Measurement Technician

Marathon Petroleum · Onsite · Carlsbad, NM, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Principal Test Development Engineer

2mo

Cobham Ultra · Onsite · Maidenhead, England, UK

69 · Good9 Day Fortnight

QA Lead

26d

Clover Health · Onsite · Houston, TX, USA

63 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Technical Professional - Better Plants Diagnostic Equipment Program

2mo

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Hybrid · Oak Ridge, TN, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Instrument and Control Technician I/II/III

21d

Sweetwater Authority · Onsite · Spring Valley, NV, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$89k – $108k

Sr. Engineer I, Facilities - Analytical Instrumentation

1mo

Biogen · Onsite · Research Triangle Park, USA

60 · GoodGenerous PTO$93k – $121k

Sr. Maintenance Labs Technician

1mo

Merck · Onsite · Durham, NC, USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$78k – $122k

Quality Inspector

29d

General Atomics · Onsite · Adelanto, CA, USA

58 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Lab Technician

1mo

Graphcore · Onsite · Bristol, UK

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Electronics Laboratory Lead

1mo

Graphcore · Onsite · Tainan, Tainan City, Taiwan

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Instrumentation Technician

2mo

Venus Aerospace · Onsite · Houston, TX, USA

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO

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Employers hiring for Calibration on this page include Merck, Marathon Petroleum, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Calibration roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Calibration is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Calibration roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Calibration across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Calibration hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Calibration roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Calibration candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Calibration on current listings.