Reliability Engineer IV

ASI is expanding its teams to support its current ramp-up across development work, customer projects, and product deployments. This is a full-time W-2 contract position. The selected candidate will interview with ASI and work as an integrated member of the ASI team. W-2 employment, payroll, and benefits will be administered through one of ASI's staffing partners. Development phases of this nature typically span up to project completion (typically 2-4 years), though scope and duration are driven by business needs.

The Reliability Engineer IV develops and leads reliability activities that improve the durability, availability, maintainability, and operational performance of ASI's autonomous dozer platforms. This role evaluates mechanical, electrical, software, and integrated vehicle systems to identify reliability risks, investigate failures, define validation strategies, and ensure corrective actions are supported by measurable data. As a Level IV engineer within ASI's five-level engineering structure, this position independently leads complex reliability work streams and influences design and validation decisions across the Dozer Team.

The role serves as a technical resource for reliability engineering methods, supports difficult cross-functional failure investigations, and provides guidance to less-experienced engineers. Broader company-wide reliability strategy and final technical authority remain aligned with engineering leadership and Level V technical experts.

• Lead reliability planning and analysis for autonomous dozer systems, subsystems, and components
• Develop reliability requirements, performance targets, validation criteria, and acceptance thresholds for assigned programs
• Lead Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, including DFMEA, PFMEA, and system-level FMEA activities
• Perform or support Fault Tree Analysis, reliability block diagrams, risk assessments, and other structured reliability analyses
• Identify reliability risks across mechanical, electrical, software, sensor, computing, communication, and vehicle-control systems
• Develop reliability test strategies for autonomous dozers operating in construction, mining, earthmoving, and other demanding environments
• Define and coordinate environmental, durability, accelerated-life, and system-level validation testing
• Support testing involving vibration and shock, temperature cycling, humidity, water ingress, pressure washing, salt exposure, dust, contamination, and mechanical loading
• Lead complex failure investigations using root cause analysis, fault isolation, data review, physical inspection, and structured problem-solving methods
• Coordinate corrective and preventive actions with design, software, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, supplier, and test teams
• Verify that corrective actions address root causes and reduce the likelihood of recurrence
• Analyze laboratory, vehicle, field, warranty, maintenance, and operational data to identify failure trends and emerging reliability risks
• Develop reliability metrics, dashboards, reports, and technical summaries that communicate product health and program risk
• Evaluate component and subsystem reliability using statistical methods, life-data analysis, degradation analysis, and trend monitoring
• Support development of reliability predictions, failure-rate estimates, and availability or maintainability assessments
• Evaluate autonomous dozer designs for durability, serviceability, maintainability, fault tolerance, and environmental robustness
• Partner with systems engineers to ensure reliability requirements are traceable to system architecture, test plans, and validation evidence
• Collaborate with test engineers and field teams to develop realistic duty cycles and operating profiles for dozer validation
• Participate in design reviews and provide reliability-focused recommendations before design release or field deployment
• Support supplier evaluations, component qualification, and resolution of supplier-related reliability concerns
• Lead investigations involving intermittent, system-level, or difficult-to-reproduce failures
• Support reliability growth planning and track progress against defined reliability objectives
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers involved in reliability analysis, testing, and failure investigations
• Improve reliability engineering processes, templates, tools, data practices, and documentation standards
• Communicate technical risks, findings, corrective actions, and…