Principal Reliability Engineer - Bracco Medical Technologies

Why Join Bracco Medical Technologies?

We care as much about our employees as we do our patients. Our culture fosters a work environment where employees can thrive, be passionate and have fun along the way. Each member of the Bracco Medical Technologies team has the power to make a difference......every day! The Principal Reliability Engineer (PE) is the champion for product quality and reliability across BMT.

The PE serves as a technical leader, partnering with Systems Engineering, Quality, and cross‑functional teams to define quality and reliability goals, requirements, and strategies across the BMT product portfolio. In this role, the PE will maintain deep expertise in reliability methods, testing, field performance, risk management, and failure analysis to support business and customer needs. The PE will lead the development and execution of reliability strategies throughout the product lifecycle—from product development through post‑market performance—ensuring that field and reliability data drive measurable product improvements.

• Define and lead Design for Reliability (DFR) methodologies and framework that supports new product development across hardware and software
• Mentor engineers to improve engineering skills, methodologies, and domain knowledge
• Develop the business case and plan for reliability programs and communicate benefits to senior management in the engineering and quality organizations
• Review and approve reliability planning, testing, and analysis activities within both New Product Development and sustaining programs
• Ensure quality and reliability requirements are incorporated into BMT products, and construct useful methods to quantify product quality and reliability across the portfolio
• Contribute to the execution of Technical Design Reviews to ensure they are complete and effective
• Develop and define the strategy and roadmap for incorporating and deploying new tools, methods, and processes to address the quality and reliability needs of BMT
• Be a technology advocate in business and customer interactions
• Attract, develop, and retain engineering talent
• Be the champion and key stakeholder in the technical design reviews for products in the portfolio while providing opportunities and guidance to engineers in presenting and explaining technology designs and how decisions were made.
• Take responsibility for internal and external stakeholder communication on key technical updates and issues, adapting the message to ensure effective communication to different audiences.
• Effectively manage risk management activities and ensure decisions are made, implemented and tracked to conclusion for technical issues throughout the project.
• Define reliability metrics and targets using field, complaint, service, and test data
• Lead and/or support reliability investigations for significant and recurring field failures and drive product reliability improvements based on post‑market performance
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• Provide reliability input to risk management and risk‑control decisions
• Measure subsystem and end‑to‑end system reliability to demonstrate customer impact

• Minimum Bachelors’ degree in engineering, preferably systems, electrical, mechanical, bio‑medical, or software, reliability, or related scientific discipline
• Experience mentoring and coaching engineers. (i.e., Ability to coach and guide others how to develop protocols, execute system tests and write effective reports)
• 5+ years of experience with the Design for Reliability (DFR) and associated reliability processes
• 5+ years in a product development system engineering role
• Experience analyzing field, complaint, and service data to identify reliability trends and failure modes.
• Demonstrated…