Robotics Reliability Engineer - Motors, Mechanisms and Electronics

The role

You will own reliability across subsystems including motors, mechanisms, and electronics. You will partner with design engineers to predict failure modes and design accelerated test methods, then monitor field data to drive design changes.

What you will do

• Partner with design engineers to design accelerated test methods
• Run DFMEA and set reliability targets
• Collaborate to design and build test setups for fatigue, vibration, shock, temperature and humidity
• Monitor robot failures in the field via support tickets, social media, returns, and telemetry
• Tear down returned units to find failures
• Own and track the catalog of field and potential failure modes
• Build and own analytics on motor and sensor telemetry
• Perform root cause failure analysis
• Prepare test plans, drive execution, analyze reports, and present results
• Influence design direction and prioritization

Required qualifications

• Technical degree in mechanical engineering, materials science, or equivalent
• 2-5 years of experience in a reliability engineering position
• Track record of defining reliability targets and test plans for consumer electronic products
• Deep comfort with reliability statistics: life data analysis, Weibull++ or equivalent, and a range of accelerated test models
• Solid understanding of Design of Experiments (DOE), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA and DFMEA), and physics of failure
• Experience specifying test setups for reliability testing and partnering with others to build them
• Comfort analyzing messy, multi-source field data such as support tickets, returns, and telemetry
• Comfort with fast-paced, startup atmosphere

Nice to have

• An advanced degree in reliability, materials science, or a related field
• Genuinely motivated to help those around you
• Passionate about learning outside of your normal comfort zones
• You love diagnosing complex technical issues
• You are excited to do great work

Benefits

• Equity through the company’s discretionary equity program
• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Access to a 401(k) plan

About the company

Matic is a tight-knit and collaborative team focused on building home robotics. Their first product is a floor cleaning robot that uses spatial AI to work in real homes.