Senior Engineer - Reliability

Eaton; Pune District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton India Innovation Center in Pune seeks a Senior Engineer - Reliability to lead design-for-reliability activities in electrical product development. The role involves driving reliability improvements, planning life testing, and mentoring teams across cross-functional groups.

The candidate will apply PoF-based analyses, life data methods, and reliability tools to reduce field failures and warranty costs, with exposure to data-center related programs.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelors degree in Electrical/Electronics/Mechanical Engineering.
• Preferred: Masters in Electrical/Electronics/Reliability engineering.
• Required: Bachelors degree with 6+ experience or Masters degree with 3+ years experience in Electrical/Electronics product reliability

Responsibilities

• Independently deliver Design for Reliability (DFR) in electrical product development programs without impacting the schedule.
• Influence design by introducing novel ideas that mitigate reliability risks and optimize product performance.
• Lead PoF-based reliability assessments for electrical/electronic products.
• Plan and conduct reliability life testing, leveraging Eaton’s internal test labs and external agencies as appropriate.
• Develop data analytics-based solutions by utilizing testing data from electrical/electronic products in the area of reliability life modeling.
• Reduce warranty defects through optimized burn-in strategies in close collaboration with respective plants, and drive problem-solving methods within the organization—such as FRACAS and Shainin Red X—in new product development and/or existing product engineering.

Skills

DfR process

Reliability modeling

MIL-HDBK-217F

FRACAS

Data centers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Mechanical Engineering

Master's in Electrical/Electronics/Reliability engineering

Tools

Sherlock

Reliasoft

Blocksim

Minitab

Job description

What You’ll Do

\"If you desire to be part of something special, to be part of a winning team, to be part of a fun team – winning is fun. At Eaton India Innovation Center, Electrical Risk Management Center of Excellence is currently seeking a 'Senior Engineer - Reliability' to join our team! This position is based at our office in Magarpatta City, Pune. In Eaton, making our work exciting, engaging, meaningful; ensuring safety, health, wellness; and being a model of inclusion & diversity are already embedded in who we are – it’s in our values, part of our vision, and our clearly defined aspirational goals.\"

The Core Responsibilities Of This Position Are As Follows

• Independently deliver Design for Reliability (DFR) in electrical product development programs without impacting the schedule.
• Influence design by introducing novel ideas that not only mitigate reliability risks but also optimize product performance.
• Lead PoF-based reliability assessments for electrical/electronic products.
• Plan and conduct reliability life testing, leveraging Eaton’s internal test labs and external agencies as appropriate.
• Develop data analytics-based solutions by utilizing testing data from electrical/electronic products in the area of reliability life modeling.
• Reduce warranty defects through optimized burn-in strategies in close collaboration with respective plants, and drive problem-solving methods within the organization—such as FRACAS and Shainin Red X—in new product development and/or existing product engineering.

A. Technology Responsibilities

• Coordinate with business stakeholders to align on current capabilities within the reliability domain and identify new ALT/test optimization opportunities.
• Drive initiatives to deploy risk mitigation strategies within the organization, including implementing problem-solving methods in new product development and/or existing product improvements across cross-functional teams.

B. Program Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on the assigned business portfolio by managing stakeholder engagement.
• Plan project milestones, execute planned deliverables, conduct deliverable reviews, communicate with stakeholders, and support on-the-job development through technical mentoring.
• Create and/or revise reliability deliverables such as Reliability Program Plans, Reliability Predictions, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Highly - Accelerated Life Tests (HALT), and Reliability Demonstration Tests (RDT) for new product development programs.

C. Extended Responsibilities

• Participate in RM-level initiatives and contribute through meaningful personal value addition.
• Provide guidance and technical mentoring to engineers.

D. Individual Contributor Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on Design for Reliability (DfR) for NPD programs primarily related to data centers, ensuring identification, management, and mitigation of reliability risks.
• Understand project requirements and solve problems independently through discussions with local and global stakeholders.
• Demonstrate innovative thinking and instill strong rigor within the team to generate intellectual property (patents, trade secrets, technical papers).
• Exhibit a continuous improvement mindset to deliver value in terms of cost, quality, and schedule.

Qualifications

\"Required: Bachelors degree in Electrical/Electronics/Mechanical Engineering.\"

\"Preferred: Masters in Electrical/Electronics/Reliability engineering.\"

Required: Bachelors degree with 6+ experience or Masters degree with 3+ years experience in Electrical/Electronics product reliability

Skills

• Proficiency in DfR process like system reliability modeling, goal setting, allocation, prediction, demonstration (life data analysis, reliability growth analysis & ALT)
• Proficiency in reliability standards such as MIL-HDBK-217F, NPRD, Telcordia
• Knowledge in FRACAS and reducing field/warranty data into relevant life and failure rate information.
• Desired: Relevant work experience in the field of Electronics and Electrical systems for data centers.
• Preferred: DFSS GB certified from reputed organization and ASQ – CRE.
• Experience with any industry proven reliability analysis suite of tools. Sherlock, Reliasoft, Blocksim & Minitab preferred.

• Accountability – Takes complete responsibility of assigned tasks and delivers results despite of roadblocks
• Passion - Pursues everything with drive and motivates others around to contribute towards the cause
• Resourceful – Works across the boundaries to get the desired things done timely
• Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions, Looks beyond the obvious solutions and comes up with creative/ innovative proposals
• Learner - Takes efforts to upskill self and shares the learnings with broader team proactively
• Transparency - Should create open and trusting environment in the team