Role: Reliability Engineer
Location: San Jose or Bellevue
We're looking for a Reliability Engineer to ensure our products perform consistently under real-world and mission-critical conditions. This role is central to de-risking designs, validating performance, and meeting rigorous government and industry standards. You'll work across the full product lifecycle-from early design through production-using data, testing, and failure analysis to drive reliability improvements. Your work will directly impact product quality, customer trust, and long-term system performance.
Responsibilities- Define and flow down reliability requirements at system and module levels, including government-driven specifications
- Lead stress characterization and define realistic usage conditions and edge cases
- Conduct and document FMEA to proactively identify and mitigate risks
- Develop acceleration models and design accelerated life tests
- Create reliability test plans, specifications, and procedures
- Apply Design of Experiments (DOE) to optimize test efficiency and insight generation
- Investigate failure mechanisms through deep technical research and analysis
- Perform and support failure analysis to determine root cause using appropriate methodologies
- Own reliability validation and testing across the full product lifecycle
- Deliver rigorous statistical analysis and clear, actionable insights
- Produce concise, high-quality reliability reports for internal and external stakeholders
- Partner cross-functionally (HW, SW, manufacturing, quality) to implement reliability improvements and mitigations
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of experience in reliability engineering or a closely related discipline
- Strong understanding of mechanical design, material behavior, and failure mechanisms (ideally in electronics or complex systems)
- Hands-on experience developing and executing reliability tests (e.g., mechanical, shock, vibration, environmental, lifecycle)
- Familiarity with industry standards such as ASTM, MIL, JEDEC, and IEC
- Experience with failure analysis tools and techniques (e.g., optical microscopy, X-ray, CT, SEM, EDX, FTIR)
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Compensation may vary within the posted range based on relevant experience, skills, education, and other job-related factors. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for equity and other forms of compensation. Eligible employees also receive a competitive benefits package, including unlimited PTO.
