Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer

The role

The Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer owns reliability as an engineering discipline. This person decomposes requirements into mission profiles and defines accelerated test plans for hardware systems.

What you will do

• Decompose platform and subsystem requirements into mission profiles.
• Translate mission profiles into accelerated test plans including acceleration factors, sample sizes, and pass/fail criteria.
• Build and maintain FMEA/FMECA analyses for critical subsystems.
• Apply quantitative reliability methods to test and field data.
• Partner with actuator, electrical, and structures test and design engineers.
• Build the reliability program's data infrastructure and reporting.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years in reliability engineering.
• Demonstrated ownership of mission profile development and accelerated test design.
• Experience developing mission profiles or usage/environmental duty-cycle models from product requirements.
• Working knowledge of acceleration models (Arrhenius, Coffin-Manson, inverse power law, or similar).
• Hands-on experience with FMEA/FMECA, Weibull analysis, and MTBF/MTTF modeling.
• Experience working with motors, actuators, power electronics, or similar systems in a product going through active development.
• Experience communicating reliability risk and recommendations to cross-functional engineering and program stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience partnering with systems or requirements engineering to define mission profiles for a new or evolving product line.
• Experience in automotive, EV, robotics, semiconductor, or consumer electronics reliability engineering.
• Experience standing up a reliability program or reliability requirements from scratch on an early-stage or prototype-phase product.
• Familiarity with low-voltage electronics, sensor, and power-electronics reliability.
• Experience with field-reliability or warranty data analysis.
• Experience scripting or building tooling (Python or similar) for reliability data analysis and reporting.

About the company

Rhoda AI is building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. They own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware to state-of-the-art foundation world models.