Senior Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Senior Reliability Engineer will establish and lead AeroVect's reliability engineering practice, ensuring the fleet meets the uptime and durability requirements of 24/7 airport operations. The role involves analyzing field failure data, defining reliability metrics, and managing external testing programs.

Responsibilities

• Establish AeroVect's reliability engineering processes, metrics, and tooling for tracking and improving fleet reliability from design through field deployment.
• Lead FMEA, FTA, and RBD activities across mechanical, electrical, and embedded systems.
• Define and track reliability metrics including MTBF, MTTR, and field failure rates; build dashboards and reporting structures for engineering and leadership visibility.
• Analyze field failure data from the deployed fleet to identify root causes, prioritize corrective actions, and close the loop between field observations and design improvements.
• Define and manage external reliability and environmental testing programs, including accelerated life testing, vibration and shock testing, thermal cycling, and ingress protection validation.
• Partner with hardware engineers during the design phase to conduct design reviews with a reliability lens, provide DFR input, and identify failure risks before they reach production.
• Develop and maintain reliability requirements for new hardware programs and vehicle platforms, ensuring traceability from system requirements to component-level specifications.
• Support supplier qualification activities by defining reliability acceptance criteria and reviewing vendor test data and qualification reports.
• Build and maintain reliability documentation including test plans, analysis reports, reliability growth tracking, and lessons-learned databases.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of hands-on reliability engineering experience in a hardware-centric industry such as automotive, aerospace, robotics, industrial equipment, or defense.
• Deep expertise in reliability analysis methods including FMEA, FTA, and RBD, with direct experience leading these analyses on complex electromechanical systems.
• Experience defining and managing environmental and accelerated life testing programs, including writing test plans and interpreting results from third-party labs.
• Ability to work across mechanical, electrical, and embedded systems domains — understanding failure modes in each and how they interact at the system level.
• Comfort working as the sole reliability practitioner at a company, with the ability to prioritize and build a program incrementally rather than inheriting an established one.
• Strong data analysis skills and experience working with field failure data to drive engineering decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present technical findings to engineering teams and to non-technical stakeholders including leadership and customers.

Qualifications

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, or aviation and airport ground support equipment.
• Familiarity with relevant standards such as MIL-STD-810, IEC 60068, ISO 26262, or ARP4761.
• Experience with reliability growth modeling and Weibull analysis tools.
• Prior ownership of a supplier qualification or reliability acceptance testing program.
• Exposure to safety-critical system design and its intersection with reliability requirements.
• Experience building a reliability practice from scratch at an early-stage company.

Skills

• Reliability Engineering
• Data Analysis
• Technical Writing
• Project Management
• Supplier Qualification

Benefits

• Competitive compensation range of $150K - $180K.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Health insurance benefits.
• Professional development opportunities.

Pay

$150K - $180K

Schedule

Full-time

Benefits

• Health insurance benefits
• Professional development opportunities