Reliability Engineer

About the role

This position does not support Visa sponsorship. Candidates requiring sponsorship will not be considered.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements qualification plans and methods to meet customer requirements for long life failure rates.
• Schedules, coordinates and executes said qualification plans and methods in accordance with agreed time frames.
• Monitor new product reliability growth/demonstration activities against targets, to ensure sufficient progress toward those targets is being achieved.
• Develops and implements ongoing reliability monitoring methods to meet customer requirements for long life failure rates. Provide trend analysis on critical to reliability parameters.
• Identify opportunities for reliability improvement in current products, and work within the product commercialization process to realize these improvements in successive generations of designs.
• Works with Design on development projects to ensure product reliability is a key consideration in development.
• Working in a team environment, resolve reliability problems that result in excessive in-house or customer failure rates.
• Provide guidance to internal groups and interface with customers regarding reliability questions or concerns.
• Distribute reports that track product and/or process reliability performance to internal groups and to customers.
• Make recommendations for test, burn-in screening and life test capital equipment acquisition.
• Provides acceleration tests results based on physics and best fit reliability models.
• Analyze field performance MTTF, FIT, Survival 2,5,10 yr data based on Weibull and Weibayse models.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field, e.g. BSEE, Physics, Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science.
• Minimum of 3-5 years related experience.
• Familiarity with power conversion theory including AC/DC and DC/DC preferred.
• Certified as a CRE preferred.
• Ability to accomplish tasks through influencing others.
• Detailed knowledge of statistical quality control parameters and characterization of yield changes in anticipated product lifetime and quality reliability outcomes.
• Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers and/or suppliers.
• Knowledge and understanding of business processes and how decisions impact customer satisfaction, product quality, and on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in related field, e.g. BSEE, Physics, Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science.
• Experience: Minimum of 3-5 years related experience.
• Technical Skills: Familiarity with power conversion theory including AC/DC and DC/DC, Certified as a CRE, Ability to accomplish tasks through influencing others, Detailed knowledge of statistical quality control parameters and characterization of yield changes in anticipated product lifetime and quality reliability outcomes.
• Communication Skills: Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers and/or suppliers.
• Business Understanding: Knowledge and understanding of business processes and how decisions impact customer satisfaction, product quality, and on-time delivery.

Skills

• Ability to accomplish tasks through influencing others.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office, MS Project, MS Vision, MiniTab, JMP.

Benefits

Vicor is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability

Pay

Salary Range: $80,000 - $110,000

Schedule

Not specified