Design Reliability Engineer, Electrical Systems

Role Summary

Reliability is at the core of Electric Adventure Vehicles. We are looking for engineers who have experience in bringing products from the early concept stages to production by working closely with design, validation, and manufacturing teams to solve technical problems and make the most robust products.

• Drive the Design-for-Reliability (DfR) strategy for the vehicle's electrical systems and supporting components, ensuring reliability is integrated from the initial concept phase through to mass production.
• Collaborate with world‑class design and validation teams to develop creative, non‑traditional solutions for the most challenging reliability and performance problems.
• Act as the primary reliability development expert for critical electrical systems of the vehicle.
• Set and communicate reliability requirements and targets for components, subsystems, and assemblies.
• Analyze usage and environmental conditions to improve requirement setting and testing methods.
• Facilitate Design FMEA sessions to drive reliable design choices and improve validation test planning.
• Participate in design reviews and facilitate the reliability section of the design review.
• Develop reliability design guidelines and apply reliability lessons learned to enable continuous improvement.
• Devise accelerated test methods to explore design margins and grow reliability efficiently.
• Partner with simulation teams to assess problem areas before physical parts are available for testing.
• Specify reliability validation plans for components and subsystems using a physics‑of‑failure approach.
• Provide guidance on sample‑size requirements and duration for reliability testing by utilizing reliability statistics.
• Facilitate failure analysis to understand root cause and drive resolution for failures originating in testing.
• Assess and clearly communicate risk at each phase of the reliability program.
• Research failure mechanisms of new technologies and applications.
• Create designed experiments (DOE) to explore alternative choices on materials, processes, and designs.
• Influence supplier selection for higher reliability and provide clear guidance on reliability requirements and demonstration to suppliers.
• Develop ongoing reliability testing strategies.
• Be the gatekeeper of reliability risk throughout product development and drive activities to successfully burn‑down risk before SOP.
• Partner with Field Reliability and Failure Analysis to assure reliability lessons learned are incorporated into future products.

• One or more years of industry experience in a dedicated reliability engineering role.
• Strong technical aptitude and proven interest in reliability engineering.
• Experience facilitating Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (FMEAs) and leading cross‑functional teams.
• Working knowledge of a coding language (preferably Python) and statistical software for reliability analysis, such as JMP or Relia Soft.
• Commitment to contributing to a respectful, inclusive, and inspiring team environment.
• Good understanding of Electrical Engineering fundamentals, ability to read schematics and awareness of component functionality for both low voltage and high voltage.
• Expertise in the Physics of Failure for electrical system failure modes, particularly at the component level.
• Understanding of degradation models, material behavior and ability to leverage data science to apply the modeling.
• Understanding of highly accelerated testing methods and governing equations for different types of failure mechanisms.
• Experience with deploying reliability testing guidelines and inventing new ways of testing.
• Good understanding of reliability statistics including Weibull Analysis.
• Expertise in accelerated‑life‑test development methods.
• Working knowledge of failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM, CT, X‑ray, EDS.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.).

Experience:

Role level determined by experience and qualifications.

• Strong technical aptitude and proven interest in reliability engineering.
• Team leadership: experience facilitating FMEAs and leading cross‑functional teams.
• Programming & statistics: coding…