Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer

Join our team as a Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this hybrid role, you will be the core technical owner for the reliability of integrated humanoid drive systems and robotic actuation sub-assemblies. You will collaborate with various teams to drive reliability validation, lead multi-physics failure analyses, and build robust lifetime models for highly dynamic robotic hardware. The ideal candidate will have 5-8+ years of experience in reliability engineering for complex hardware systems, with a strong understanding of mechatronic systems and experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or other high-reliability industries.

Collaborer avec les équipes de conception, de contrôle, de logiciel embarqué et de fabrication pour conduire la validation de la fiabilité, diriger les analyses de défaillance multi-physiques et construire des modèles de durée de vie robustes.

Concevoir, construire et exécuter des configurations de test de stress accéléré multi-axes, y compris HALT, HASS, le cyclage de charge dynamique, le choc thermique, la vibration et la validation de la protection contre l'intrusion.

Strong preference for candidates with experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or other high-reliability industries

Responsibilities

• Mettre en œuvre des méthodologies de conception pour la fiabilité (DfR) à travers des boucles mécatroniques complexes, y compris les trains d'entraînement, les réducteurs harmoniques, les moteurs BLDC, les systèmes de rétroaction des encodeurs.
• Demonstrated experience with reliability engineering principles including Design for Reliability, DFMEA/FMEA, accelerated-life testing, reliability demonstration, reliability growth, component derating, and physics-of-failure analysis
• Understanding of common mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical failure mechanisms
• Experience using reliability, statistical, simulation, and engineering analysis tools to support reliability assessments and decision-making
• Experience applying physics-based simulation or analytical methods to evaluate mechanical, thermal, vibration, fatigue, or electronics reliability risks

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 to 8+ years of experience in reliability engineering for complex hardware systems
• Familiarity with statistical reliability methods including Weibull analysis, success-run testing, confidence bounds, and accelerated-life modeling
• Working knowledge of fatigue and life-prediction methods such as Coffin-Manson, stress-life, strain-life, Miner’s rule, or equivalent approaches
• Strong understanding of mechatronic systems integrating mechanical structures, electronics, actuators, sensors, and control hardware
• Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, test data, material specifications, and supplier qualification reports
• Experience developing or executing environmental and durability tests such as vibration, thermal cycling, mechanical fatigue, humidity, HALT, or accelerated endurance testing
• Ability to learn and effectively use new reliability and engineering software tools as needed
• Ability to analyze life data, accelerated-test results, failure distributions, and reliability-growth trends
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Materials Science, Reliability Engineering, or a related technical field

Preferred

• Proficiency with data-analysis and scripting environments used for engineering analysis is preferred
• Master’s degree or PhD is a plus

Pay

USD 170,000 - 221,000