Job Description:Shield AI is looking for a Reliability Modeling Engineer to own the reliability model and failure-prediction strategy for the V-BAT unmanned aircraft system. In this role you will build the quantitative backbone that predicts how the system fails, why it fails, and how to design those failures out - translating field data, industry sources, and test results into models that directly inform design, production, and sustainment decisions. You will be the reliability subject-matter expert who partners across Design, Manufacturing, Quality, and Fleet Support to drive measurable improvements in system reliability.
What you'll do:- Build and maintain the V-BAT system reliability model, predicting system-level failure rate using failure-rate data from the field and industry sources.
- Create and maintain the V-BAT system fault tree, identifying single points of failure and quantifying their contribution to overall system reliability.
- Inform design decisions that eliminate single points of failure and improve the reliability of the system, providing Design-for-Reliability (DfR) guidance in design reviews.
- Partner with Design, Fleet Support, Quality, and Manufacturing Engineers on root cause investigations for field failures, and drive corrective and preventive actions to closure.
- Drive reliability test campaigns in production and sustainment to verify the system is meeting its reliability requirements and predictions, feeding results back into the model.
- Drive production reliability screening campaigns to reduce infant-mortality failures, such as HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening) and ESS (Environmental Stress Screening).
- Establish and track reliability metrics - MTBF, failure-rate trends, and reliability growth - and communicate reliability status and risk posture to program leadership.
Required qualifications:- B.S. in Engineering, Mathematics, or Statistics discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in reliability or surety engineering in a high-consequence industry (defense, aerospace, automotive, or medical device).
- Expertise in Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) calculations.
- Demonstrated ability to build reliability models from field and test data and translate them into actionable design and production decisions.
Preferred qualifications:- Experience with Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) modeling and Weibull analysis.
- Experience with reliability analysis software such as Relyence (or equivalent tools such as ReliaSoft/Weibull++, Windchill Risk & Reliability).
- Familiarity with government standards for developing reliability and maintainability models, such as MIL-HDBK-217, 217Plus, and MIL-STD-756.
- Experience implementing FRACAS (Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System) and supporting Failure Review Boards.
- CRE (ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer) certification.
- Experience with unmanned aircraft, aerospace, or other mission-critical hardware systems.
$140,000 - $210,000 a year
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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
