Lead Reliability Engineer

The role

You will be the founding reliability engineering hire owning the reliability strategy for a noninvasive wearable. You will manage qualification, certification, and field-quality strategy across all subsystems.

What you will do

• Own the reliability strategy end-to-end including test plans, qualification protocols, and certifications.
• Drive design-for-reliability into every team's process through FMEA reviews and design-review participation.
• Define and execute the qualification test program for environmental, mechanical, wireless, battery, and biocompatibility.
• Stand up test capability using internal resources and external lab partnerships.
• Lead the certifications strategy and execution for FCC, CE/RED, IC, RoHS, REACH, and others.
• Partner with EE, audio, camera, product design, and firmware leads on subsystem reliability.
• Take the product through qualification gates to in-market launch by end of year.
• Own field quality post-launch including AFR/MTBF targets, returns analysis, and root-cause investigation.
• Build and lead the reliability function as the product scales.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of reliability engineering for consumer hardware.
• At least one shipped product where you owned reliability from concept through field.
• Deep working knowledge of consumer-electronics qualification standards (IEC 60068, IEC 61000, JEDEC, IPC).
• Knowledge of regional certifications landscape (FCC Part 15, CE/RED, IC RSS, plus battery and body-worn specifics).
• Experience designing accelerated life tests and applying statistical reliability methods (Weibull analysis, acceleration models, sample-size design).
• Demonstrated experience driving design-for-reliability with EE, ME, and FW leads.
• Experience with FMEA leadership and design reviews.
• Comfortable owning external lab relationships, certification projects, and CM-side reliability gates.

Nice to have

• Wearables, hearables, mobile devices, or other body-worn consumer electronics.
• Battery reliability: UN38.3, cycle life, swelling, thermal abuse, charging-system safety.
• Biocompatibility and skin-contact testing (ISO 10993 family).
• Field telemetry and post-launch quality analytics.
• HALT/HASS test design and execution.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful equity package
• 401(k) with company matching
• Health insurance
• Flexible PTO

Before you apply

• Evaluation completed within 14 days of first interview
• Offer letter dispatched same day as go decision, valid for 10 days
• Start date within 4 weeks of offer acceptance

About the company

sabi is a small team building a noninvasive wearable that turns thought into text using EEG/BCI technology. They are building a next-generation AI companion wearable.