Senior Vehicle Reliability Engineer

Senior Vehicle Reliability Engineer – Czinger Vehicles

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Czinger Vehicles is redefining the future of automotive design and manufacturing. Founded in 2019, we're pioneering a new era of performance vehicles through revolutionary, proprietary technology that blends human‑AI design with sustainable manufacturing. Our flagship 21C hypercar is the world’s fastest production vehicle and has set records at Goodwood Hill Climb, Circuit of the Americas, and Laguna Seca. With over 550 patents in AI‑driven generative design, materials, and additive manufacturing, we invite you to join our world‑class talent to shape the future of the automotive industry.

The Senior Vehicle Reliability Engineer (CZV) ensures that Czinger’s groundbreaking vehicles meet the highest standards of performance, safety, reliability, and durability. This position exists to drive confidence in vehicle reliability prior to handover and to ensure rapid and effective resolution of validation, production, and customer issues. Leading proactive risk management and robust problem solving across design, validation, and launch phases, the Senior Vehicle Reliability Engineer enables Czinger to deliver revolutionary vehicles with trusted performance on the road.

• Manage the issues landscape through development, validation, and product launch
  • Administer and continuously improve the Vehicle Issue Management System (Jira) to ensure consistent categorization, ownership, and tracking of reliability and build issues.
  • Manage interim containment actions (ICA) and lead structured Root Cause (RC) and Permanent Corrective Action (PCA) efforts for critical/customer‑facing issues or systemic failures.
  • Lead cross‑functional issue reviews to establish clear priorities and accountability for needed design and process improvements.
  • Identify, assess, and communicate the need for field action in partnership with Aftersales when fleet issues arise.
• Act as the technical vehicle reliability partner to Leadership, Program Management, Design, Validation, and other teams
  • Participate in design and change reviews to provide feedback on manufacturability and reliability.
  • Establish performance and reliability feedback loops to enable rapid and effective design evolution.
  • Assess overall vehicle readiness for key program milestones (e.g., start of production, customer hand‑off).
  • Develop and publish dashboards and metrics that communicate issue trends, risks, and progress to leadership.
• Continuously refine and scale problem resolution processes and systems and reliability engineering practices to support growing production volumes and complexity
  • Own the issue management governance model (meeting cadence, escalation path, categorization logic, Jira workflows).
  • Introduce and maintain standardized Root Cause templates and training to improve problem‑solving maturity.
  • Evaluate training opportunities for key stakeholders to expand the problem‑solving knowledge.
  • Coordinate with IT/Systems to ensure Jira configurations align with evolving reliability processes.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in design, manufacturing, product reliability, validation/test, or quality engineering.
• Experience solving complex, interdisciplinary problems in development and production using a disciplined problem‑solving methodology.

• 3+ years of experience launching new vehicles or similarly complex, high‑performance products from concept to production.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work independently, lead cross‑functional initiatives, and effectively communicate to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience with structured problem‑solving methodologies and failure analysis tools (e.g., Six Sigma, 8D, 5‑whys, Fault Tree Analysis, fishbone, DOE).
• Background in one or more key vehicle domains, such as Powertrain (ICE or hybrid), composite body structures, chassis and suspension systems, vehicle software, or electrical systems.
• Working knowledge of DFM principles, particularly those pertaining to…