About The Role:We are looking for a
Systems Reliability Engineer to join our team, focusing on system-level reliability, verification, and risk reduction for our next-generation autonomous weapon platforms. This role sits closer to systems engineering than a traditional full-time reliability function and is responsible for defining how we evaluate system performance, analyze test data, identify failure modes, and drive clear pass/fail conclusions across hardware and software. The ideal candidate is hands-on, technically rigorous, and able to own the full loop from test planning through analysis, with particular strength in structured validation, environmental and performance testing, and safety-minded systems thinking.
What You'll Do:- Define system-level reliability goals, risk-based verification priorities, and failure-focused evaluation criteria for autonomous weapon platforms.
- Identify reliability-critical tests, stress cases, and operating conditions needed to expose failure modes before fielding.
- Analyze test and field data to identify failure modes, performance limits, degradation patterns, and reliability risks, and translate results into clear technical conclusions and recommended actions.
- Lead structured root-cause investigations for reliability failures across electrical, mechanical, software, and controls interfaces.
- Develop methods for reliability trending, failure categorization, and corrective-action tracking so the team can measure reliability growth over time.
- Support requirements verification by ensuring reliability risks, failure criteria, and hazard-informed concerns are reflected in system requirements and verification methods.
- Work with systems, mechanical, electrical, and software engineers to improve design robustness, observability, maintainability, and failure tolerance.
- Help define corrective actions, retest plans, and closure criteria for reliability-related issues.
- Contribute to hazard, risk, and mishap-informed engineering work, including reliability-focused systems analysis aligned with MIL-HDBK-781 style thinking.
- Drive a stronger reliability culture by improving failure ownership, analysis quality, corrective-action discipline, and technical follow-through across programs.
What You'll Need:- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in reliability engineering, systems engineering, failure analysis, verification, or engineering analysis.
- Familiarity with MIL-STD-882 or comparable system safety and risk-analysis frameworks.
- Experience identifying failure modes, reliability risks, and corrective actions from test or field data.
- Experience with environmental, performance, qualification, or durability-style testing and the practical challenges of collecting useful data in real test conditions.
- Comfort working across mechanical, electrical, software, and systems teams to improve reliability and technical rigor.
You'll Stand Out:- Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership, incomplete information, and cross-functional technical responsibility.
- Proven track record of improving reliability, failure response, or risk-informed engineering rigor in mission-critical systems.
- Experience with requirements management in JAMA or DOORS.
- Experience developing reliability measures such as MTBF and Operational Availability.
- Intellectual curiosity driving you to consistently find failure patterns and weak assumptions that others would miss.
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