Reliability Engineer
About the role
Rivet is an American company building integrated task systems for industrial workforces and defense personnel. The company creates capabilities that multiply the effectiveness of every individual and withstand the world's toughest environments. Rivet serves the people who build, operate, maintain, and defend our way of life.
Responsibilities
- Define and flow down reliability requirements at system and module levels, including government-driven specifications
- Lead stress characterization and define realistic usage conditions and edge cases
- Conduct and document FMEA to proactively identify and mitigate risks
- Create acceleration models and design accelerated life tests
- Create reliability test plans, specifications, and procedures
- Apply Design of Experiments (DOE) to optimize test efficiency and insight generation
- Investigate failure mechanisms through deep technical research and analysis
- Perform and support failure analysis to determine root cause using appropriate methodologies
- Own reliability validation and testing across the full product lifecycle
- Deliver rigorous statistical analysis and clear, actionable insights
- Produce concise, high-quality reliability reports for internal and external stakeholders
- Possess cross-functional collaboration with HW, SW, manufacturing, quality to implement reliability improvements and mitigations
Requirements
Role: Reliability Engineer
Location: San Jose or Bellevue
Compensation*: $165,000-$215,000 + benefits
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of experience in reliability engineering or a closely related discipline
- Strong understanding of mechanical design, material behavior, and failure mechanisms (ideally in electronics or complex systems)
- Hands-on experience developing and executing reliability tests (e.g., mechanical, shock, vibration, environmental, lifecycle)
- Familiarity with industry standards such as ASTM, MIL, JEDEC, and IEC
- Experience with failure analysis tools and techniques (e.g., optical microscopy, X-ray, CT, SEM, EDX, FTIR)
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Benefits
In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for equity and other forms of compensation. Eligible employees also receive a competitive benefits package, including unlimited PTO.
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$165,000-$215,000 + benefits
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