Senior Reliability Engineer: Global Hardware Qualification

Salience Labs Ltd; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Salience Labs Ltd is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to own reliability, qualification and life-testing across hardware development programmes. You will collaborate with engineering, product, manufacturing and external partners to define requirements and ensure evidence meets standards for deployment.

The role demands strong industrial experience in semiconductor/electronics reliability, testing and reporting, with responsibility from planning through to final acceptance and communication

Qualifications

• Significant industrial experience in semiconductor, electronics or hardware reliability.
• Strong knowledge of semiconductor devices, electronics and packaging.
• Experience developing and executing reliability or qualification plans.
• Strong understanding of reliability testing, life testing and product qualification principles.
• Ability to analyse complex datasets and turn them into practical engineering conclusions.
• Experience identifying trends, risks and potential failure mechanisms from test data.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical subjects clearly and concisely.
• Experience producing professional technical reports.
• Strong stakeholder-management across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience working with external suppliers, manufacturing partners or test houses.
• Confidence to challenge technical conclusions and provide clear guidance.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.

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 clear, actionable engineering recommendations.
• Review test results, identify trends and investigate potential failure mechanisms.
• Produce clear, professional reliability reports for internal and customer-facing use.
• Work closely with engineering teams to ensure reliability considerations are incorporated into product development.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, product and failure analysis teams to resolve reliability issues.
• Work directly with external suppliers and manufacturing partners on test execution, qualification and corrective actions.
• Review and audit reliability work carried out by external partners.
• Support supplier visits and technical reviews where required.
• Help develop and continuously improve reliability processes, methodologies and reporting standards.
• Communicate technical findings clearly to both specialist and non-specialist stakeholders.
• Take ownership of reliability activities from initial planning through to final review and acceptance.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Semiconductor knowledge

Electronics knowledge

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Technical reporting

Test planning

Life testing

Failure analysis

Communication

Job description

Salience Labs Ltd is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to own reliability, qualification and life-testing across hardware development programmes. You will collaborate with engineering, product, manufacturing and external partners to define requirements and ensure evidence meets standards for deployment.

The role demands strong industrial experience in semiconductor/electronics reliability, testing and reporting, with responsibility from planning through to final acceptance and communication