Staff Reliability Engineer
June 13
🏢 In-office - San Francisco
Description
• Own Span’s DFR (Design for Reliability), determine appropriate reliability targets, develop usage models, create DFMEA, test specs, test planning and reliability plan for the Span panel, Span Drive, and future products. • Determine test strategies that optimize for product reliability, DFMEA-based risk mitigations, test team resources, and program schedules. • Work with Engineers to develop test plans. • Operate tests using Linux command line and use basic Python coding to support test logging and data analysis and presentation. • Conduct testing in areas including the validation of material properties, design structure, thermal performance, ingress performance, antenna performance, and electrical safety. • Collaborate with internal and external teams to design and execute product and component level reliability testing including hands on testing with real hardware. • Conduct test data analysis, clearly communicate test results, and collaborate with design engineers to resolve issues detected in testing. • Own the build out of our in-house reliability lab, you will procure and develop test equipment to support testing on our current and future products. • Build and mentor the hardware reliability engineering team. • Manage relationships with 3rd party testing facilities.
Requirements
• BS or MS in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (or related field) • 8+ years experience developing and running reliability tests including environmental, mechanical, and electrical stress testing • Experience with analysis of test results including statistical analysis techniques • Experience with scripting languages, particularly Python • Hands-on approach whether it be building a prototype or performing testing • Hands-on experience building test setups and using instrumentation • Ability to understand and discuss the electromagnetism, electronics, and material physics fundamentals underlying hardware reliability and safety
Benefits
• Competitive compensation + equity grants at a well-funded, venture-backed company • Comprehensive benefits (including medical; dental, vision, life and disability insurance) • Comfortable, sunny office space located near BART and Caltrain public transit • Strong focus on teambuilding and company culture (events, meet-ups, clubs) • Flexible hours and unlimited PTO
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