Reliability Engineer-IIoT & Connected Assets

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We are scaling our IIoT and connected‑maintenance product into new product lines and expansion projects, and we need a reliability engineer who can lead that technical growth. The role is built around understanding why equipment fails — mechanically and electronically — and translating that understanding into the right technology to measure, detect, and prevent those failures.

The engineer moves fluidly between the desk, the bench, and the field: reading drawings and manuals to understand the equipment and process, analyzing failure mechanisms to find true root cause, getting hands‑on to build and test prototypes, and proving the value of solutions with data and a sound business case. A core part of the role is choosing the correct sensors for industrial process and equipment measurement, writing their technical specifications, testing them on prototypes, and relating the resulting readings to the algorithms that detect failures early enough to prevent them.

This person owns the technical discovery‑to‑pilot loop — running failure‑mode analysis, selecting detection technologies, and building and field‑testing prototypes as proofs of concept inside the IIoT product, then translating validated findings into a development roadmap. They work in an agile team, one of several reliability engineers each focused on a different product line but sharing the same approach, with the autonomy to research, propose, pilot, and present solutions, and regular exposure to cross‑functional teams and management.

Understand the equipment, systems, and process

• Read and interpret mechanical, electrical/electronic, hydraulic, and P&I drawings, OEM service manuals, and specifications.
• Develop a working understanding of how assets and their sub‑systems function within their operating conditions and surrounding process.
• Assess equipment criticality to focus reliability effort where it delivers the most value.

Investigate failures and determine root cause

• Lead and review failure‑mode analysis (FMEA / FMECA) — including analyses produced by the reliability team — and root‑cause analysis across mechanical and electronic failure mechanisms.
• Engage internal and external technology teams, vendors, and subject‑matter experts to determine failure mechanisms.
• Characterize each failure mechanism — how it develops, its measurable symptoms, and the lead time to act — and define how data can be used to identify and prevent it.

• Research and benchmark sensing, monitoring, and diagnostic technologies against each failure mechanism — vibration, oil quality/condition, temperature, pressure, flow, electrical signals/signature, acoustic, and equipment‑bus data.
• Choose the correct sensors for process and equipment measurement in industrial environments; define what to measure, where, and the measurement technique.
• Select instrumentation and signal types (e.g., 4–20 mA, 0–5 V / 0.5–4.5 V, RTD/thermocouple, digital I/O, CAN / J1939) and define alert/alarm criteria.
• Write the technical specifications for sensors and instrumentation.
• Define diagnosis and prognosis logic and health‑scoring inputs that detect deviations early, balancing detection confidence against false alarms.

Build prototypes, run pilots and Po Cs

• Propose hypotheses and validate them with data; specify, source, wire, and assemble sensor kits, edge hardware, and electronic prototypes.
• Test sensors on prototypes and validate the quality of their readings.
• Get hands‑on and “feet in the mud” — install, instrument, and test on real equipment in the lab, shop, and field; capture and validate data quality.
• Design and run pilots and PoCs end‑to‑end with clear success criteria; measure results and iterate.
• Account for field reality throughout: hazardous‑area…