Senior Reliability Engineer - Onsite

Location: Milpitas, CA • Duration: 4 months • Schedule: 1st shift, 40 hours/week, onsite 5 days a week • Employment type: W2 contract (US citizens, GC holders, GC EAD, OPT, EAD, or CPT) • Pay rate: $50/hr

About the role

Candidate will support three projects—Imaging Platform, A7, and Sustaining—with the following breakdown:

• 30% lab work: launch new products and perform final liability testing
• 40% field support: review failed products in the field with engineers and provide solutions
• 30% sustaining: conduct cost-reduction activities

There is a possibility of converting from temporary to permanent employment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and monitor multiple reliability projects
• Provide reliability risk assessments to cross-functional teams and executive leadership
• Create and implement test plans to mitigate risks in new product designs
• Facilitate and direct multidisciplinary discussions to evaluate technical risk through FMEA
• Leverage internal and external resources to complete reliability test plans
• Record, organize, and manage large amounts of detailed test data
• Methodically analyze test data and interpret results for critical reliability decision-making
• Troubleshoot instrument failures and/or reliability issues
• Direct, execute, and document root cause investigations
• Guide the team to corrective action identification, implementation, and validation
• Escalate top issues by providing clear, well-structured, high-level updates
• Provide engineering input for new designs to ensure reliable and robust products

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline
• Minimum of 5 years of reliability engineering experience or experience performing tests to collect experimental data and performing statistical analyses to interpret results (2 years may be substituted with an advanced degree in engineering or related discipline)
• Knowledge of reliability fundamentals and reliability analysis (e.g., life predictions, product life modeling, root cause analysis, environmental testing, accelerated testing)
• Applies technical standards, principles, concepts, and techniques to solve problems
• Excellent communication skills
• Willingness to work in a BSL2 lab
• Willingness to prepare blood samples for testing (training will be provided)

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of fluidic, optical, and/or electro-mechanical systems
• Experience with test automation (LabView, Arduino, etc.)
• Experience utilizing FMEA to guide team discussions and priorities
• Statistical knowledge, especially related to six sigma tools and methodology, design of experiments, and reliability modeling
• Experience managing large sets of data using data processing tools such as Minitab, MATLAB, JMP, or R