System Reliability Engineer

CHAOS Inc. is a global technology company delivering next-generation capabilities to the defense and critical industrial sectors. Founded in 2022 by a seasoned leadership team, CHAOS has quickly become the place where world-class multi-disciplinary engineers come to build mission-critical technologies. CHAOS has a mission-focused culture, dedicated to solving the toughest technical challenges. Its unique agile engineering approach enables rapid prototyping, while deep partnerships with defense and industry ensure real-world solutions.

• CHAOS is seeking a highly-skilled and motivated System Reliability Engineer to join our team supporting our R&D and product engineering team, overseeing and managing the reliability and maintainability of the products we are developing. This is a highly collaborative role which will allow you to work on multiple capabilities within our product offerings. As a member of our engineering team, you also have the opportunity to expand your skillset across our product families.

• Identify, evaluate, and mitigate hazards and risks associated with mission critical systems
• Develop System Built in Test (BIT) architecture and design
• Develop reliability models and performing reliability predictions
• Reliability and Maintainability Predictions, Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Responsible for System Hazard Analysis (SHA), System Safety Assessment (SSA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Conduct reliability, supportability and root cause investigations to identify key failure points and/or optimize asset reliability, availability, maintainability, safety and life cycle costs
• Development of maintenance strategies and preventative, predictive, and condition-based maintenance programs
• Establish and maintaining project reliability plans and instructions
• Perform System Safety planning, hazard analyses, and design analyses
• Develop diagnostic tools and procedures

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) or another related field or equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years of experience in a reliability engineering, failure analysis, or a closely related technical role.
• Strong understanding of reliability principles and methodologies:
• Experience with FMECA analysis, BIT, Root cause analysis and debugging, and/or Systems Safety
• Understanding product life stages, from design and development to testing, production, and eventual retirement
• Experience with RF systems
• Experience and willingness to work in an agile engineering development startup
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with cross-functional teams, presenting findings, and documenting process

• Masters degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) or another related field or equivalent work experience
• Systems engineering experience with Requirements Development, Design, and/or Integration and Test
• Experience working with defense electronic sensor systems
• Experience working with radar systems
• Proficiency in statistical methods, data analysis, and using statistical software
• Software programming experience (C/C++, Python, Matlab, etc)

• Health Benefits: Your medical, dental and vision benefits will be 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits
  : life, FSA, HSA, 401k (+ Company match), and more
• Our Perks: free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO (for exempt employees), casual dress code
• Compensation Components: competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance + (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Company Size: 100 employees and counting!
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  About Us:
  
  We're building the next generation of aerospace, defense and critical industry technologies with a seasoned team of mission-focused individuals. We were founded in June 2022 and our goal is to become the platform where world-class engineers come to solve critical, real-world problems. We use agile engineering approaches which enable rapid prototyping, deep partnerships with the defense industry ensuring real-world application, and our newly-invented…