Hardware Reliability Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Hardware Reliability Engineer (Battlespace Awareness)

• Focus: Embed reliability into product architecture and detailed design; own reliability for fielded and production products

• Core activities: reliability predictions/allocations, FMEA/FMECA & fault tree analyses, HALT/HASS/ESS campaigns, verification evidence for design reviews, MTBF/FRACAS and field failure analytics

Description

This is a hands-on reliability engineering role for the Battlespace Awareness product line, driving reliability from early concept trade studies through design validation and transition to manufacturing. You will embed reliability into architecture and detailed design for NPI programs, and for in-field products you will own MTBF methodology, run FRACAS, and perform reliability growth using field failure analysis (including Weibull). You will collaborate closely with mechanical, electrical, and software teams to ensure robust system-level reliability.

Responsibilities

• NPI programs: plan and execute HALT, define HASS and ESS profiles with gates tied to design reviews; build reliability evidence for PDR/CDR/MRR/PRR

• Perform FMECA and fault detection/fault isolation analyses to identify and mitigate failure modes; execute design verification test plans

• Conduct predictive reliability analyses to forecast field failures and MTTF/MTBF using requirements/specifications and standards (e.g., MIL-HDBK-217Plus)

• Partner with Quality and manufacturing/contract manufacturers for electronics and PCBA reliability (derating, parts selection, supplier screening)

• Fielded/production: own MTBF methodology (failure definitions, operating-hours calculation) and maintain a single agreed MTBF metric

• Run FRACAS linking field failures to nonconformance/quality tickets and failure analysis results, preserving traceability by serial number

• Develop maintainability models and support preventative maintenance and sparing plans; provide RAM reporting

• Analyze degradation parameters over time to predict end-of-life thresholds before failure; model warranty/sustainment costs and field failure rates

• Perform Weibull analyses and work with HW and failure analysis labs on root-cause investigations for time-based failures

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in a hardware-focused Reliability Engineering, Design/Development Engineering, or Quality Engineering role emphasizing life data analysis

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Materials Science, or related field

• Familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-516C, MIL-STD-1629

• Experience building a reliability engineering framework for products/programs including production testing, field testing, data acquisition, and analysis

• Expertise in reliability analysis methods: FMEA/FMECA, predictive modeling, Weibull, Fault Tree Analysis

• Hands-on HALT/HASS/ESS experience on electronic hardware with translation of results into design changes and production screens

• Proven experience owning reliability for fielded products: MTBF tracking, FRACAS, and field-failure data scrubbing

• Knowledge of structured root-cause analysis methods within CAPA/FRACAS (e.g., 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone, Kepner-Tregoe)

• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Security Clearance

• Design review experience (PDR/CDR/MRR) and ability to present technical results across leadership

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)

• Highly competitive equity grants included in most full-time offers; part of total compensation