Staff Engineer, Reliability Test (R5532)

What You'll Do

• Translate design requirements, mission profiles, and industry standards into environmental test plans, including stress profiles, sample sizes, verification matrices, instrumentation maps, and pass/fail criteria.
• Write and maintain the test procedures and work instructions technicians use to set up, execute, and tear down tests.
• Design test fixtures in CAD and verify they are dynamically suitable for vibration and shock testing.
• Define instrumentation and data acquisition requirements, and develop automated tools for data acquisition, reduction, and plotting.
• Provide real-time engineering support during test execution: review live data, disposition anomalies and test interruptions, and authorize profile changes or test stops.
• Lead investigations of test failures and anomalies, partnering with failure analysis and design engineers to drive root cause and corrective action.
• Analyze test data and author test reports that support disposition, qualification, and acceptance decisions.
• Plan and prioritize the test schedule across concurrent campaigns, balancing program needs against lab capacity.
• Define lab capability needs, including equipment, test methods, and capacity, and manage external laboratories when testing exceeds in-house capability.
• Educate stakeholders on environmental test best practices to improve test plans and design-for-test practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience planning and conducting environmental tests, including temperature cycling, vibration, shock, highly accelerated limit testing (HALT), and highly accelerated stress screening (HASS).
• Experience writing test plans, procedures, and reports for hardware qualification or acceptance.
• Working knowledge of relevant industry test standards, including MIL-STD-810, RTCA DO-160, IPC, JEDEC, and ASTM.
• Knowledge of electronics failure mechanisms, including solder fatigue, intermetallic growth, conductive anodic filaments, tin whiskers, electromigration, and corrosion, and how environmental stresses accelerate them.
• Proficiency in CAD modelling software, including ANSYS SpaceClaim, NX, or Solidworks.
• Experience specifying instrumentation and data acquisition (thermocouples, accelerometers, humidity sensors, strain gauges) and analyzing the resulting data.
• Self-starter with a growth mindset and sound judgment when making real-time decisions with incomplete information.
• Clear, concise written and oral communication, including the ability to present results and recommendations to design and hardware test teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a reliability or environmental test engineering role.
• Familiarity with reliability concepts, including Weibull statistics, accelerated life test design, and acceleration models (e.g., Coffin-Manson, Arrhenius, Peck).
• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Reliability Engineering.
• Proficiency in FEA modelling software, including ANSYS Mechanical, Siemens Simcenter, or Abaqus, including modal analysis of test fixtures.
• Proficiency in Python, including NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Plotly, and Matplotlib, for data reduction and test automation.
• Experience leading interdisciplinary technical projects from concept to production.
• Experience standing up a new environmental test capability.
• Familiarity with PCB fabrication, SMT, and polymerics application manufacturing processes.

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• Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Temporary employee offer package

Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.