Reliability Design Engineer - Motors, Mechanisms and Electronics

About the role

This role is for an engineer who likes building things that break other things. You will design, fabricate, instrument, and run the rigs, fixtures, and accelerated torture tests that reproduce real-world failure modes, push our designs past their limits, and tell us exactly where and why things break.

Responsibilities

• Design, fabricate, and iterate electromechanical test rigs, fixtures, and automated setups that reproduce field failure modes and stress our designs to failure
• Build accelerated life, fatigue, vibration and shock, and temperature and humidity tests across motors, mechanisms, and electronics
• Wire up and integrate the actuators, motor drivers, sensors, and data acquisition that bring each test setup to life and capture clean, analyzable failure data
• Write scripts to automate test execution and data logging so tests run reliably and repeatably at volume
• Partner with reliability engineers to translate physics of failure and field insight into representative test methods
• Create and maintain CAD models, drawings, and documentation for all test equipment
• Scale and maintain the reliability lab as our fleet, hardware versions, and test volume grow
• Work cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, software, quality, production, and supply chain teams to close the loop from potential failure to design fix

Requirements

• Technical degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related hardware discipline
• 2+ years of hardware design engineering experience, ideally on a physical product that has shipped in volume
• Proven ability to build, fabricate, and rapidly iterate physical prototypes and test setups
• Proficiency in CAD
• Hands-on comfort across electromechanical systems: actuators, motor control, sensors, and basic circuit work, data acquisition, and instrumentation
• Working proficiency with a scripting language such as Python for test automation and data handling
• Exposure to reliability and test concepts such as accelerated testing, fatigue, life testing, DOE, or FMEA is a plus

Qualifications

• Genuinely motivated to help those around you
• Passionate about learning outside of your normal comfort zones
• Loved diagnosing complex technical issues
• Excited to do great work

Skills

• Technical degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related hardware discipline
• 2+ years of hardware design engineering experience, ideally on a physical product that has shipped in volume
• Proven ability to build, fabricate, and rapidly iterate physical prototypes and test setups
• Proficiency in CAD
• Hands-on comfort across electromechanical systems: actuators, motor control, sensors, and basic circuit work, data acquisition, and instrumentation
• Working proficiency with a scripting language such as Python for test automation and data handling
• Exposure to reliability and test concepts such as accelerated testing, fatigue, life testing, DOE, or FMEA is a plus

Benefits

• Compensation: Base: $120,000 - $200,000 per annum. Actual Compensation will depend on skills, experience and qualifications.
• The role is also eligible for equity through the company’s discretionary equity program, along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage access to a 401(k) plan.