Reliability Engineer

This position does not support Visa sponsorship.

Candidates requiring sponsorship will not be considered.

• Develops and implements qualification plans and methods to meet customer requirements for long life failure rates.
• Schedules, coordinates and executes said qualification plans and methods in accordance with agreed time frames.
• Monitor new product reliability growth/demonstration activities against targets, to ensure sufficient progress toward those targets is being achieved.
• Develops and implements ongoing reliability monitoring methods to meet customer requirements for long life failure rates. Provide trend analysis on critical to reliability parameters.
• Identify opportunities for reliability improvement in current products, and work within the product commercialization process to realize these improvements in successive generations of designs.
• Works with Design on development projects to ensure product reliability is a key consideration in development.
• Working in a team environment, resolve reliability problems that result in excessive in-house or customer failure rates
• Provide guidance to internal groups and interface with customers regarding reliability questions or concerns.
• Monitors reliability metrics and goals to drive quality improvement efforts.
• Distributes reports that track product and/or process reliability performance to internal groups and to customers.
• Make recommendations for test, burn-in screening and life test capital equipment acquisition.
• Provides acceleration tests results based on physics and best fit reliability models.
• Analyze field performance MTTF, FIT , Survival 2,5,10 yr data based on Weibull and Weibayse models.

• Bachelor's degree in related field, e.g. BSEE, Physics, Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science.
• Familiarity with power conversion theory including AC/DC and DC/DC preferred.
• Certified as a CRE preferred.
• Ability to accomplish tasks through influencing others.
• Demonstrated Experience in the following:
  • MILHDK
    217 and Telcordia Reliability Prediction Calculations
  • Various aspects of the physics of failure of PCBs, and/or electronic components
  • Electronic circuits, components, PCBs and manufacturing processes
  • State-of-the-art reliability assessment methods and techniques
  • FMEA, Design of Experiments
• Detailed knowledge of statistical quality control parameters and characterization of yield changes in anticipated product lifetime and quality reliability outcomes.
• Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal and external customers and/or suppliers.
• Ability to use some or all of the following PC applications: MS Office, MS Project, MS Vision, Mini Tab, JMP, in generating reports, capturing data, and presenting data and information in an understandable format.
• Knowledge and understanding of business processes and how decisions impact customer satisfaction, product quality, and on-time delivery.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Vicor is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability

Salary Range: $80,000 - $110,000

Please note:

This range is based on our current market driven pay structures. Individual salaries are determined based upon a variety of factors including but not limited to, a candidates overall qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience as well as company internal equity.