Reliability & Test Engineer

DUDE CHEM; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 65.000 - 95.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

DUDE CHEM in Berlin seeks a Reliability & Test Engineer to own reliability, testing, and safety practices across its facilities. You will minimize downtime, prevent failure propagation, and ensure all experiments and datasets meet high quality standards.

You will design reliability into systems, define real-world tests, and build safeguards that scale with increasing automation, taking ownership of safety as a core system property.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in mechanical, electrical, systems, or related field.
• 5+ years experience in reliability engineering, test engineering, or quality assurance in complex technical systems.
• Strong background in failure analysis, testing methodologies, and system validation.
• Experience working with automated, hardware-software integrated environments.
• High standards, ownership mindset, and comfort saying “this isn’t ready.”
• Clear communicator who can align teams around quality and safety expectations.

Aufgaben

• Design reliability into the system
• Identify failures before they occur
• Eliminate single points of failure across hardware, automation, and workflows
• Build recovery strategies that minimize impact when things go wrong
• Define tests that reflect real operating conditions
• Ensure consistency and reproducibility across runs and systems
• Prevent subtle degradation from quietly eroding quality
• Anticipate how increased automation changes risk and design safeguards
• Take ownership of safety as a system property, not a checklist
• Investigate incidents and near-misses, translate findings into improvements
• Raise the reliability bar across the organization

Kenntnisse

Reliability

Test engineering

Quality assurance

Failure analysis

Automation experience

Ausbildung

Engineering degree

Jobbeschreibung

Your mission

Make sure the system never lies, and rarely fails, no matter the complexity

Dunia is building AI-native, automated laboratories for materials discovery. Our systems combine hardware, software, chemistry, and automation in tightly coupled workflows. In this environment, reliability and quality are not support functions. They are foundational.

As Reliability & Test Engineer, you will own the design and enforcement of reliability, testing, and safety practices across Dunia’s facilities. Your role is to minimize downtime, prevent failure propagation, and ensure that every experiment, run, and dataset meets a consistently high quality bar.

This role exists to make sure the system works every time, not just most of the time.

Your tasks will include:

Design reliability into the system

• Identifywhere failures are likely to occur before they happen
• Eliminatesingle points of failure across hardware, automation, and workflows
• Build recovery strategies that minimize impact when things go wrong

Test whatactually matters

• Define tests that reflect real operating conditions, not ideal scenarios
• Ensure consistency and reproducibility across runs and systems
• Prevent subtle degradation from quietly eroding quality

Protect safety as autonomy increases

• Anticipate how increased automation changes risk
• Design safeguards that work without constant human intervention
• Take ownership of safety as a system property, not a checklist

Turn failures into progress

• Investigate incidents andnear-missesdeeply
• Translate findings into durable system improvements
• Raise the reliability bar across the organization

Your profile

• Degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, systems, industrial, or related field)
• 5+years experiencein reliability engineering, test engineering, or quality assurance in complex technical systems
• Strong background in failure analysis, testing methodologies, and system validation
• Experience working with automated, hardware-software integrated environments
• High standards, strong ownership mindset, and comfort saying “this isn’t ready”
• Clear communicator who can align teams around quality and safety expectations