Lead/Principal Reliability Engineer - 1073

The role

This role leads reliability strategy for new technologies that have limited historical data, such as optical and photonic technologies, extreme-high vacuum components, and cryogenic cooling systems. The work includes reliability analyses, accelerated stress test plans, failure models, and design reviews with design teams.

What you will do

• Define and lead reliability strategies for new technologies with limited historical data.
• Develop system or product level reliability analyses from component test campaigns and published results.
• Work with subject matter experts to develop physics of failure models for new technologies.
• Create accelerated stress test plans, novel characterization methods, reliability metrics, and prediction methods.
• Collaborate with design teams on reliability-centric requirements and design decisions, including derating, margin analysis, redundancy, and component selection.
• Analyze early prototypes and test results to find root causes, quantify reliability risks, and propose design or process improvements.

Required qualifications

• Minimum bachelor's degree.
• Minimum 8+ years of professional experience in reliability engineering roles (6 years with a master's, 5 years with a PhD).
• Experience with reliability of hardware products or systems using photonics, lasers, advanced materials, optical sensors, and/or optical systems.
• Must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless also a U.S. citizen.
• Must be a U.S. Person: U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or worker granted asylum or refugee status.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, physics, or related field (advanced degree preferred).
• Experience with quantitative reliability analysis of complex optical and electronic products, including MTBF, failure rate, and probability of mission success.
• Experience in failure mode and effects criticality analysis (FMECA) for complex optical and electronic products.
• Hands-on experience with reliability test equipment, environmental stress methods, highly-accelerated life and stress testing, and data analysis.
• Experience with qualification of optoelectronic devices under Telcordia GR-468-CORE.
• Experience with reliability studies of new technologies and/or first-generation product introduction.
• Proficiency in physics of failure, statistical analysis, reliability prediction tools, and design-for-reliability methodologies.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and the chance to work on groundbreaking technology.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company match and student loan repayment benefit.
• Equity opportunities.
• Generous paid time off, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays annually.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee discount programs.

Before you apply

• Pre-employment drug test required for safety-sensitive positions.
• U.S. person status required due to contractual requirements.
• Some positions require U.S. government export authorization before a non-U.S. person can access controlled technology; hiring on this basis depends on whether that authorization can be obtained.

About the company

Quantinuum is a quantum computing company delivering a full stack platform for real-world deployment, with more than 800 employees and headquarters in Broomfield, Colorado. It also operates in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Singapore.