Lead Reliability Engineer – Semiconductor Hardware

Salience Labs; Oxford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Salience Labs Limited is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to own reliability, qualification and life-testing across hardware development programmes. You’ll partner with engineering, product, manufacturing and external partners to set reliability requirements and translate test results into actionable recommendations.

The role emphasizes independent ownership, strong technical communication and collaboration with OSATs, suppliers and internal teams to ensure evidence meets commercial

Qualifications

• Significant industrial experience in semiconductor, electronics or hardware product reliability.
• Strong knowledge of semiconductor devices, electronics and packaging.
• Experience developing and executing reliability or qualification plans.
• Understanding of reliability testing, life testing and product qualification principles.
• Ability to analyse complex datasets and draw practical engineering conclusions.
• Experience identifying trends and potential failure mechanisms from test data.
• Strong problem-solving and clear communication of technical topics.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain reliability and qualification plans for semiconductor-based hardware.
• Define appropriate component, assembly and product-level reliability testing.
• Plan and oversee life-test and qualification activities.
• Analyse reliability data and translate results into actionable engineering recommendations.
• Review test results, identify trends and investigate potential failure mechanisms.
• Produce professional reliability reports for internal and customer use.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed reliability in product development.
• Work with external suppliers and manufacturing partners on test execution and corrective actions.
• Audit reliability work carried out by external partners.
• Support supplier visits and technical reviews as required.

Skills

Semiconductor reliability

Electronics packaging

Life-testing experience

Data analysis

Test planning

Supplier engagement

Technical reporting

Stakeholder management

Job description

Salience Labs Limited is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to own reliability, qualification and life-testing across hardware development programmes. You’ll partner with engineering, product, manufacturing and external partners to set reliability requirements and translate test results into actionable recommendations.

The role emphasizes independent ownership, strong technical communication and collaboration with OSATs, suppliers and internal teams to ensure evidence meets commercial