Failure Analysis Engineer

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Mechanical Engineering

Atlanta, US Hybrid Full-time $82,000 – $112,000

Winixx Inc. is a New York-based technology holding company operating a portfolio of over 30 SaaS platforms across freight, fleet management, financial infrastructure, and market intelligence. Founded with a mission to modernize fragmented and underserved industries, Winixx builds technology that removes inefficiencies, creates transparency, and puts more value in the hands of the people doing the actual work. Our flagship products include Winixx Freight, a next-generation load board with embedded instant payment;

fleetOS, a comprehensive fleet management and roadside assistance platform; and Baron Meddy Financial, our financial infrastructure arm facilitating capital deployment, escrow, and M&A advisory across verticals. Winixx is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with remote teams operating nationwide.

In hardware development, failures are inevitable — the question is whether you learn from them effectively enough to prevent the next one. The Failure Analysis Engineer at Winixx is the engineer whose job it is to answer the question 'why did this fail?' with the depth, rigor, and evidence required to enable a corrective action that actually prevents the failure from happening again.

You will investigate hardware failures from prototype testing, production quality escapes, warranty returns, and field escalations, applying a systematic and scientifically grounded approach to root cause determination that moves beyond superficial symptom identification to the true physical, chemical, or process root cause of each failure.

• Conduct systematic failure analysis investigations on hardware units received from prototype testing, production quality escapes, field warranty returns, and customer escalations, following a structured FA methodology that produces defensible, evidence-based root cause determinations
• Apply a broad toolkit of failure analysis techniques to each investigation, including visual inspection, stereo and optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), focused ion beam (FIB) cross-sectioning, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), and FTIR spectroscopy
• Perform careful, methodical deconstruction of failed hardware units, preserving evidence through each analysis step and documenting the disassembly process with photographs and written notes
• Develop and document failure analysis reports that clearly present the failure description, analysis methodology, evidence gathered, root cause determination, and recommended corrective actions
• Collaborate with the materials engineering, mechanical design, manufacturing engineering, and PCB design teams to develop corrective actions that address the verified root cause of each failure
• Maintain and continuously improve Winixx's failure analysis database, cataloging failure modes, root causes, contributing factors, and corrective actions in a structured format that supports trending analysis and knowledge reuse
• Conduct failure mode trend analysis on the cumulative failure analysis database, identifying systematic failure patterns that indicate design, material, or process issues requiring broad corrective action
• Support supplier quality improvement activities by performing failure analysis on non-conforming components received from suppliers, providing failure analysis reports that enable suppliers to identify and correct process deficiencies
• Develop and maintain the failure analysis laboratory at Winixx's Atlanta facility, managing laboratory equipment calibration, consumable inventory, and sample preparation…