PCBA Reliability Engineer
Figure is an AI robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots, embodied AI, and data-collection services for home and commercial use.
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About Figure
Figure develops the Figure 03 humanoid robot and Helix, its vision-language-action AI system, to autonomously perform household and commercial tasks. It also operates Index, a contributor network and app for collecting real-world task data.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will drive design for reliability for the PCBAs in humanoid robots. You'll define reliability specs and validation methods from product use cases, lead DFMEA with design engineers, develop reliability tests for PCBAs, harnesses and connectors, and manage suppliers running tests in each build. You'll also build custom test fixtures with test engineers, lead failure analysis and DOEs, and run physics and statistical analysis on failures to give actionable recommendations.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of work experience in reliability engineering
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant science or engineering field
- Strong knowledge of environmental reliability test principles and methodologies
- Strong knowledge of industry test standards such as AECQ, JEDEC, IPC
- Strong knowledge of electrical circuits, PCBA design and tools such as Altium
- Strong knowledge of PCBA failure modes, mechanisms, and FA techniques
- Hands-on experience with field reliability risk analysis and failure prediction
- Hands-on experience with Weibull++, JMP, or other reliability statistical software
- Hands-on experience with electronic circuit debug tools such as source meter and oscilloscope
Responsibilities
- Collect and analyze product use cases to define PCBA reliability specs and validation methods
- Lead DFMEA efforts with design engineers
- Develop reliability tests for PCBAs, electronic components, electrical harness and connectors
- Drive and manage internal and external resources and suppliers in executing reliability tests
- Develop custom test fixtures, electronics, and code with test engineers
- Guide, support, and execute failure analysis, DOEs and corrective actions
- Document failures and work with design and manufacturing engineers to resolve them
- Conduct physics and statistical analysis on test and field failures and provide recommendations