Aerospace Systems Reliability Engineer (Windchill/FRACAS)

CFD Research Corporation; Hollywood (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

ESOP

Medical, Vision, Dental

Paid leave

Bonuses

Life insurance

Job summary

CFD Research Corporation in Huntsville, AL seeks a Systems Reliability Engineer to mature the reliability framework for a complex aerospace/defense hardware system. You will manage FMEA/FMECA, FRACAS, and quantitative reliability models within Windchill and collaborate across design, test, and systems engineering teams.

You will analyze failures, update predictions, and provide critical inputs for hazard analyses and safety assessments, ensuring traceability to the current baseline and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in reliability engineering, systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
• Three or more years of experience involving reliability engineering, failure analysis, hardware development, or a closely related engineering activity.
• Experience developing, maintaining, or interpreting quantitative reliability prediction models for complex hardware systems.
• Experience developing, maintaining, or using FMEA, FMECA, fault-tree analysis, or similar reliability engineering products.
• Ability to work with component-level reliability information, system configurations, operating environments, duty cycles, failure-rate data, and engineering assumptions to maintain a defensible system reliability prediction.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and mature the system reliability prediction model using Windchill.
• Maintain consistency between the reliability prediction model, current system configuration, component and assembly information, and applicable reliability assumptions.
• Update reliability predictions as designs mature, parts change, operating assumptions change, failure data become available, or corrective actions modify the system configuration.
• Develop and maintain reliability allocations and predictions at appropriate system, subsystem, assembly, and component levels.
• Evaluate predicted reliability against system requirements and identify significant reliability drivers, contributors, and areas of insufficient margin.
• Work with design engineering and other technical organizations to obtain component data, operating conditions, duty cycles, environmental assumptions, and failure information required to maintain the reliability model.
• Develop, maintain, and mature system-level FMEA and FMECA analyses.
• Coordinate subsystem and component failure-mode information with responsible engineering organizations.
• Maintain failure severity, criticality, consequence, and related analytical information as the design and operating knowledge mature.
• Develop and maintain reliability fault-tree analyses where appropriate.
• Analyze test, manufacturing, and operational failure information for trends, recurring failure mechanisms, and emerging reliability risks.
• Support and maintain the technical analysis portion of the program FRACAS process.
• Work with responsible engineering organizations to investigate failures, identify root causes, and evaluate corrective-action effectiveness.
• Use actual test, manufacturing, and operational failure information to assess and refine reliability-model assumptions where appropriate.
• Evaluate the reliability impact of engineering changes and proposed corrective actions.
• Maintain traceability between reliability predictions, FMEA and FMECA results, critical-item assessments, FRACAS information, and the current technical baseline.
• Identify reliability-critical items using applicable failure analyses, reliability predictions, design information, operational information, and program criteria.
• Generate reliability-model results and supporting analyses for technical reviews, customer deliverables, design trades, and verification activities.
• Work with the Maintainability and Testability Engineer to ensure significant failure modes are appropriately detectable, isolatable, and maintainable.
• Work with the Verification, Compliance and MBSE Systems Engineer to identify and trace verification evidence needed to support reliability requirements and analytical conclusions.
• Provide reliability data and analyses to the assigned System Safety owner where reliability information supports hazard analysis, safety assessment, or safety-critical item decisions.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Failure analysis

Hardware development

Quantitative modeling

Technical writing

Analytical communication

System understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline

Tools

Windchill

Job description

CFD Research Corporation in Huntsville, AL seeks a Systems Reliability Engineer to mature the reliability framework for a complex aerospace/defense hardware system. You will manage FMEA/FMECA, FRACAS, and quantitative reliability models within Windchill and collaborate across design, test, and systems engineering teams.

You will analyze failures, update predictions, and provide critical inputs for hazard analyses and safety assessments, ensuring traceability to the current baseline and