Robotics FA Engineer, Electromechanical Hardware

Meta; Redmond; On-site; AUD 206,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Failure Analysis Engineer for electromechanical hardware to own end-to-end FA across fixture, DVE, and qualification testing, capturing symptoms, performing teardown, and delivering corrective action. You will classify failures, isolate domains, and drive CAPA with cross-functional partners.

The role requires hands-on lab skills (DMM, oscilloscope, DAQ) and a strong track record in FA reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of hands-on failure analysis, reliability, or test engineering on electromechanical hardware (motors and drives, gearboxes, precision mechanisms, consumer devices, instrumentation, or similar)
• Demonstrated root-cause methodology: 5-Why, fishbone, fault-tree, DOE, or equivalent, applied to real hardware failures you can talk through in detail
• Hands-on lab competence: DMM, oscilloscope, power supplies, load/test fixtures, DAQ
• Experience writing technical FA reports that enable design engineers to act on findings without additional clarification

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end FA for units failing fixture, DVE, and qualification testing: intake, symptom capture, hypothesis-driven teardown, root cause, disposition, and corrective-action follow-through
• Build and maintain a failure-mode taxonomy for the hardware in scope and classify incoming failures against it, so root causes transfer between units instead of being re-derived every time
• Diagnose by signature, not by guesswork — isolate the failing domain (mechanical, electrical, firmware, thermal, process) using periodicity, load-vs-position behavior, electrical waveforms, calibration and configuration data, and environmental correlation
• Write and maintain analysis tooling (Python) that parses test-station reports and time-series logs to classify failure modes automatically at fleet/population scale
• Run fleet-level correlation studies to accept or refute candidate root causes, and document refuted leads as clearly as confirmed ones
• Drive nonconformance (NC) and CAPA workflows: file, triage, and close NCs
• present findings at CCB / design review
• feed pass-fail criteria improvements back into the test stations
• Partner with design ME/EE/FW on containment and permanent fixes, and with suppliers on incoming quality and process escapes
• Perform and interpret physical FA: precision teardown, dimensional/metrology inspection, wear and fracture surface inspection, optical/microscopy, and — where available — CT, SEM/EDX, and cross-sectioning

Skills

Root-cause analysis

Lab testing

Python

FA reporting

Electrical/Mechanical analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

DMM

Oscilloscope

Power supplies

DAQ

Test fixtures

Job description

Meta is seeking a Failure Analysis Engineer for electromechanical hardware to own end-to-end FA across fixture, DVE, and qualification testing, capturing symptoms, performing teardown, and delivering corrective action. You will classify failures, isolate domains, and drive CAPA with cross-functional partners.

The role requires hands-on lab skills (DMM, oscilloscope, DAQ) and a strong track record in FA reporting.