Staff Hardware Reliability Engineer

Skills

About the Role

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.

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

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

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation