Senior Reliability Engineer

The role

The Senior Reliability Engineer will own reliability plans for products and subsystems through development. You will design accelerated tests, build reliability models, and correlate field failures with test results to ensure product longevity.

What you will do

• Own the reliability plan for a product or major subsystem through development
• Lead risk assessments including failure mode and effects analysis and fault tree analysis
• Design and run accelerated tests built from first principles and physics of failure
• Build reliability and acceleration models that link test time to field life
• Write scripts and tools to automate repeated data analysis
• Correlate field failures with test results and develop new test methods
• Write reliability reports and sign-off recommendations
• Assess the reliability impact of design, component, production and supplier changes
• Improve lab capability by evaluating and introducing new test equipment and methods
• Mentor and support junior engineers

Required qualifications

• Several years of experience in reliability, test or hardware engineering on electronic or electromechanical products
• Hands-on experience designing and running reliability tests such as accelerated life testing, highly accelerated life testing, or environmental and mechanical stress testing
• A solid understanding of how electronic products fail and the physics that drives them
• Confidence with reliability statistics and modelling such as life data analysis, acceleration models, confidence levels and sample sizing
• A first-principles mindset
• Clear, honest communication grounded in evidence
• Strong sense of ownership and a bias for action
• Tenacious curiosity to figure things out
• Process discipline
• Low ego and highly collaborative

Nice to have

• A degree in electrical, mechanical, mechatronics or materials engineering, or similar

Benefits

• Personal growth fund

About the company

Halter is on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run productive and sustainable operations. The company is backed by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund and Blackbird.