Reliability Engineer

The role

You will develop low-voltage electric architectures and provide guidance on ECU designs to meet reliability targets. You will drive product reliability for vehicle control, connected car, and self-driving systems from concept through production.

What you will do

• Drive product reliability for vehicle control, connected car, and self-driving systems from concept through production.
• Serve as the primary DfR expert for hardware design and architecture teams.
• Establish design guidelines, identify electronic failure modes, and define standard countermeasures.
• Develop validation strategies, physics-of-failure-based reliability specifications, and accelerated testing methods.
• Lead root-cause failure investigations using first-principles thinking.
• Collaborate with internal engineering teams, suppliers, and failure analysis laboratories.
• Audit Contract Manufacturers on-site during development phases.
• Analyze fleet and field data to detect emerging risks.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in an engineering discipline or equivalent.
• Technical understanding of PCBA, electronics, or control systems, including failure modes, reliability specification development, design guidelines, electronics thermal management, and interconnects.
• Understanding of the FMEA process (DFMEA/PFMEA).
• Willingness to facilitate FMEAs and lead cross-functional teams.
• Working knowledge of a coding language.
• Working knowledge of statistical software for reliability, such as JMP or the ReliaSoft suite, including Weibull analysis.
• Understanding of Highly Accelerated Testing methods and the governing equations for different failure mechanisms.
• Working knowledge of failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM, CT, X-Ray, EDS, TDR.

Nice to have

• Python
• expertise in accelerated-life-test development methods

Benefits

• competitive base salary
• annual company performance bonus program
• equity in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• health coverage
• retirement savings
• time off
• family planning programs

About the company

Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is a joint venture between two industry leaders. They address the challenges of electric vehicles through technology for software-defined vehicles.