Sr. Reliability Engineer

Senior Reliability Engineer supporting the development of new life science technology within an R&D group. Provides hands-on reliability expertise for complex instruments, including lab testing, field failure support, and cost reduction/sustaining activities. Location: Milpitas, CA (Onsite 5 days/week). Temp-to-perm possibility.

Responsibilities

Lead and monitor multiple reliability projects; Provide reliability risk assessments to cross-functional teams and leadership; Create and implement test plans to mitigate risks in new product designs; Facilitate multidisciplinary FMEA discussions to evaluate technical risk; Record, organize, and analyze large sets of detailed test data; Troubleshoot instrument failures and direct root cause investigations; Guide corrective action identification, implementation, and validation; Provide engineering input for new designs to ensure reliable, robust products; Support lab testing (30%), field failure review/solutions (40%), and cost-reduction/sustaining work (30%)

Requirements

5–10 years overall; Minimum 5 years of reliability engineering experience (or equivalent experimental/statistical testing experience; 2 years may be substituted with an advanced engineering degree); Basic statistical analysis for interpreting test data; Reliability analysis and reliability engineering fundamentals (life predictions, root cause analysis, environmental/accelerated testing); Strong communication skills; Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline required; Willingness to work in a BSL2 lab and prepare blood samples for testing (training provided); Ability to work onsite 5 days/week in Milpitas, CA

Nice to have

DFMEA; electronics hardware design; fluidics; optics; test automation (LabView, Arduino); Six Sigma tools; design of experiments; data tools (Minitab, MATLAB, JMP, R)