Senior Reliability Engineer, Semiconductor Hardware

Salience Labs; Abingdon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Salience Labs in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to own reliability activities across hardware development, from planning to final review. You will define qualification plans and oversee life-testing while working with engineering, manufacturing and external partners.

You will analyse data, identify failure modes, and produce clear engineering recommendations and reports for both internal teams and customers. International travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Significant industrial experience in semiconductor, electronics or hardware reliability.
• Experience developing and executing reliability or qualification plans.
• Strong understanding of reliability testing, life testing and product qualification principles.

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.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Semiconductor knowledge

Data analysis

Life testing

Qualification planning

Supplier engagement

Test data interpretation

Stakeholder management

OSATs coordination

Failure analysis

Packaging knowledge

Technical reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Statistical analysis software (e.g., Minitab)

Reliability testing equipment

Job description

Salience Labs in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to own reliability activities across hardware development, from planning to final review. You will define qualification plans and oversee life-testing while working with engineering, manufacturing and external partners.

You will analyse data, identify failure modes, and produce clear engineering recommendations and reports for both internal teams and customers. International travel may be required.