Senior Staff Engineer, Reliability & Design Assurance
Description
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will serve as the technical leader responsible for defining and executing the reliability strategy for luxury residential appliance platforms throughout the entire product lifecycle. This role drives the development of reliability requirements, leads proactive risk assessment and mitigation efforts, and ensures products consistently meet established performance, durability, and customer satisfaction targets. Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, you will champion engineering excellence and continuous improvement to deliver world-class product quality, reliability, and long-term customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Define product reliability, durability, and life requirements
- Lead Design Assurance Lab and reliability validation plans based on customer use conditions
- Lead reliability focused FMEA activities and facilitate risk mitigation plans
- Apply statistical methods to evaluate reliability performance and support engineering decision making
- Optimize test plans to reduce cycle time while maintaining statistical confidence
- Analyze field failures and warranty data to identify emerging risks and correlate to lab performance
- Lead complex root cause investigations and drive corrective actions
- Own failure reporting, analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS)