DVT & Reliability Engineering Lead

TVS Electronics Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

TVS Electronics Limited is seeking a senior technical leader to own Design Verification Testing (DVT) and Reliability Engineering for its hardware products, including TouchPOS, thermal printers, and keyboards. You will define reliability strategies, lifetime targets, and build a scalable validation organization.

You will lead MTBF, FRA, derating, and accelerated life testing, while mentoring engineers and ensuring compliance with pre-certification standards.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in hardware reliability & validation.
• Proven experience leading DVT for embedded products.
• Strong background in power electronics & thermal systems.
• Experience in POS, payment devices, printers, or IoT hardware.
• Demonstrated mentoring and team development experience.

Responsibilities

• Own Reliability Engineering leadership and governance.
• Perform MTBF prediction and FIT rate estimation.
• Define product lifetime targets and environmental stress levels.
• Review and approve test plans with subsystem coverage.
• Lead validation architecture for EVT/DVT/PVT and issue tracking.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

MTBF modeling

Weibull analysis

Derating standards

Thermal analysis

Reliability strategy

Embedded hardware

Tools

ReliaSoft

Weibull++

IPC/JEDEC

MIL-HDBK-217

Job description

Role Summary

We are seeking a senior technical leader to own Design Verification Testing (DVT) and Reliability Engineering for TVSE Products including TouchPOS, Thermal Printers, Keyboards. The candidate must be capable of defining reliability strategy, calculating product lifetime, and building a scalable validation organization. This is a technical authority role in reliability and validation.

Key Responsibilities

Reliability Engineering Leadership

Perform & Own:

• MTBF prediction
• FIT rate estimation
• Thermal derating analysis
• Power component stress analysis
• Reliability block diagrams (RBD)
• Weibull life modeling
• Acceleration factor calculations

Define:

• Product lifetime targets (based on usage)
• Duty cycle assumptions
• Environmental stress levels (Country specific conditions)

DVT Architecture & Governance

• Define risk-based DVT framework
• Establish entry/exit criteria for EVT/DVT/PVT
• Review and approve test plans
  • Ensure subsystem coverage including RF robustness, Thermal printer head life, Cutter mechanical life, SMPS robustness, LCD burn-in, Life for keyboard switches
• Implement structured issue tracking and severity classification

Product-Specific Reliability Focus

• Thermal Printer (eg. Print head life estimation)
• TouchPOS (eg. Power adapter reliability analysis)
• Soundbox (eg. Speaker fatigue modelling)
• Keyboard (eg. Switch lifecycle validation )

Environmental & Market Reliability Strategy

• Design validation for ambient/elevated temperature, RH, Dust-prone environments, unstable power grids
• Plan accelerated stress tests such as HALT, HASS, Temperature cycling, Power cycling

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Train DVT engineers in:
  • Reliability calculations
  • Structured root cause analysis
  • Statistical sampling methods
  • Weibull analysis
• Review failure analysis reports
• Establish validation documentation standards
• Build long-term validation capability

Compliance & Certification Oversight

• Guide pre-compliance and certification strategy for:
  • CE marking
  • Federal Communications Commission
  • RoHS
• Support EMI mitigation strategy at PCB and enclosure level.

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years in hardware reliability & validation
• Proven experience leading DVT for embedded products
• Strong background in power electronics & thermal systems
• Experience in POS, payment devices, printers, or IoT hardware
• Demonstrated mentoring and team development experience

Mandatory Technical Expertise

• MTBF modeling tools (Reliasoft or equivalent)
• Weibull++ or statistical reliability tools
• Derating standards (IPC, JEDEC familiarity)
• Reliability prediction standards such as MIL-HDBK-217
• Accelerated life testing design
• Thermal simulation interpretation
• Schematic-level stress review capability

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