Senior Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Senior Reliability Engineer works in cross-functional teams with designers, customers, manufacturing engineering, and project leaders to ensure products meet reliability specifications. This role involves defining reliability testing strategies, conducting tests, and performing stress-based MTBF analysis to provide initial reliability predictions.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability analysis and collaborate with design teams to ensure products meet reliability specifications.
• Work with design teams and customers to understand and define reliability requirements.
• Conduct design reviews and address design issues with the team.
• Define reliability testing strategies, test plans, and conduct tests.
• Complete stress-based MTBF analysis to provide initial reliability predictions.
• Coordinate third-party performance and regulatory testing.
• Train manufacturing partner personnel to conduct tests.
• Perform failure analysis and generate failure reports.
• Provide design guideline recommendations based on run-to-failure testing and stress vs. strength analysis.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to develop or improve durability test methodologies for enhanced product development efficiency.
• Apply problem-solving and analytical skills to conduct failure analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, electronic, or mechanical engineering.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with FMEA, Design for Reliability (DFR), DFT, and Design for Manufacturability (DFM) concepts, particularly as they relate to process, property, and complex manufacturing systems.
• Familiarity with Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), de-rating, reparable and life analysis.
• Experience with environmental and reliability testing such as vibration test, shock test, drop test, storage test, HALT/HASS, acoustic test, and RVI test.
• Proficiency with reliability data analysis software (e.g., JMP, Minitab, Weibull).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong project management and data analysis skills.
• Able to work independently, self-motivated, and well-organized.

Physical Demands

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment.
• May require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.