Reliability Modeling and Accelerated Testing Engineer

Role Overview

Picture a typical morning: you’re embedded alongside design engineers, opening ReliaSoft to refine a BlockSim reliability model for a critical electro-mechanical subsystem. By mid-morning, you’re validating life distributions in Weibull++ from last week’s accelerated stress tests. After lunch, you sit in a design review, advising on component selection and test strategies to harden the design against real-world stressors. You close the day by logging issues in XFRACAS, prioritizing fixes, and documenting improvements—sometimes pausing to prepare a succinct update for senior leadership. On occasion, you’ll jump on an early or late call to collaborate with global teammates. Core hours run 8am–5pm.

What You’ll Do

• Build, edit, and verify Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs) for complex equipment using ReliaSoft tools, including Weibull++, BlockSim, and XFRACAS.
• Assess materials, manufacturing processes, and assembly techniques from a reliability perspective to identify improvement opportunities.
• Consult with design engineering on component selection, application constraints, and test strategies for electronic and electro-mechanical systems.
• Define reliability targets and requirements for components and systems to meet company goals, customer expectations, and applicable agency standards.
• Develop accelerated life tests and novel analytical approaches to surface early failure mechanisms in new products, packaging, processes, and designs.
• Recommend design and verification methods, including statistical process control (SPC), to achieve required reliability levels.
• Propose design or formulation changes that increase system and process robustness.
• Participate in reliability planning, design reviews, and cross-functional working sessions; partner closely with groups such as the e-beam design team.
• Drive test execution, improvement actions, and rigorous documentation; present key findings to leadership when appropriate.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering strongly preferred (Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, or related).
• 5+ years of hands-on, practical engineering experience; depth of experience is valued over advanced degrees.
• 5–10 years in Systems, Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, or equivalent engineering roles, with interest and capability to deepen as a Reliability Engineer.
• Grounding in reliability fundamentals: failure physics, materials science, electro-mechanical design, accelerated testing, and test design principles.
• Experience with reliability planning artifacts such as FMEA, reliability block modeling, and structured test plans.
• Background working on large, complex capital equipment and modeling critical subsystems.
• Familiarity with ReliaSoft (Weibull++, BlockSim) or similar reliability applications is advantageous.
• Clear, persuasive communicator able to influence without direct authority and to guide design teams toward reliability improvements.
• Confidence presenting to executives (support provided as needed).
• Collaborative, proactive, and data-driven mindset; actively seeks information and partners closely with cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of applied failure physics and manufacturing reliability; strong grasp of underlying mechanisms.
• Industry background may vary (e.g., aerospace, automotive, etc.); experience with e-beam/semiconductor capital equipment is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with e-beam tools, ReliaSoft applications, and other reliability modeling software is beneficial.