Senior Reliability and Maintainability Engineer

Location: Richardson, Texas or Dulles, Virginia (onsite)

U.S. citizenship and an active, transferable U.S. government Top Secret security clearance are required prior to start date.

About the Role

Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) ensures our products are reliable, maintainable, and delivered on time. As a Reliability, Maintainability & Testability (RM&T) Engineer, you will lead or conduct LCE activities through proposal, development, and production phases, supporting engineering, program offices, and customers across the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Analyze preliminary plans and develop RM&T engineering programs to meet company, customer, and governmental reliability and maintainability objectives.
• Develop, coordinate, and conduct technical RM&T studies and evaluations of engineering design concepts.
• Perform RM&T analyses, including:
  • Mean Time Between Failure predictions (MIL-HDBK-217)
  • Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) predictions (MIL-HDBK-470)
  • Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) (MIL-HDBK-1629)
  • Built-in-Test (BIT) / Testability Analysis (MIL-HDBK-2165)
  • Human Factors “Design for Maintainer” Assessment (MIL-HDBK-1472)
• Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations as part of a closed-loop Failure Reporting and Corrective Action (FRACA) process to drive continuous reliability improvement.
• Generate formal, customer-deliverable RM&T report documentation.
• Conduct reliability growth testing.
• Communicate findings and recommendations in writing and orally to program management, proposal teams, customers, and represent the organization in technical meetings and program reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (STEM).
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience conducting:
  • Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations to identify root cause, implement corrective action, and verify improvement.
  • Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA).
• Experience with analytical techniques to estimate Fault Detection, Fault Isolation, and/or False Alarm rates.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Active and transferable U.S. government-issued Secret security clearance (required prior to start date).

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Experience in Life Cycle Engineering disciplines such as system safety, human systems integration (HSI), logistics, technical publications, training, and/or affordability.
• Ability to work across multiple disciplines and organizational levels.
• Experience presenting data to internal or external customers.
• Product testing and troubleshooting in factory/depot or field environments.
• Proficiency with RM&T analysis tools (e.g., Reliasoft Tool Suite, DSI eXpress, or Windchill).
• Experience interpreting interfaces between hardware and software.
• Experience working with software/firmware development and implementation.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and/or Digital Engineering experience.
• Experience with Earned Value Management activities to manage budget/schedule performance.
• Experience developing RM&T cost estimates and technical analyses in support of proposals.
• Experience working in the DoD customer community (US Army, US Air Force, US Navy).

Pay

The salary range for this role is $86,800 – $165,200 USD.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) match.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Employee assistance program.
• Employee Scholar Program (tuition assistance).
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Eligibility for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (dependent on role level and collective-bargaining agreements).
• Relocation assistance available.