Staff Hardware Reliability Engineer

You will lead reliability evaluations and test campaigns for hardware systems. You will investigate complex failures, drive corrective actions, facilitate DFMEA sessions, develop failure-rate models, and integrate reliability findings into design and manufacturing processes. You will collaborate with hardware, systems, safety, field operations, embedded software, and contract manufacturing stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Conduct hardware reliability evaluations and design test campaigns
• Own complex failure analysis and corrective actions
• Lead DFMEA sessions and implement corrective action plans
• Develop models that predict failure rates for modules across climates and road conditions
• Integrate reliability findings into design and manufacturing processes
• Collaborate with hardware design, systems engineering, safety, field operations, embedded software, and contract manufacturers

Requirements

• Experience developing and validating hardware products, including compute systems and automotive sensors
• Root cause analysis expertise
• Knowledge of physics of failure for electronic, mechanical, and optoelectronic components
• Ability to design and execute reliability testing for shock, vibration, and thermal conditions
• Hardware performance data analysis
• Experience improving reliability of mass-produced optomechanical assemblies
• Experience managing feedback loops with external vendors
• Familiarity with AEC-Q, ISO-16750, and automotive reliability standards
• Experience evaluating manufacturing and assembly-process reliability
• Knowledge of hardware-firmware interactions
• Understanding of material science, PCBAs, BGA structural integrity, conformal coating, and humidity exposure

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation