Aerospace Systems Reliability Engineer - Windchill & FRACAS

CFD Research Corporation; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) & ESOP

Medical, vision & dental insurance

Paid leave & disability coverage

Job summary

CFD Research Corporation in Huntsville, AL seeks a full-time Systems Reliability Engineer to mature reliability frameworks for a complex aerospace/defense system. The role collaborates across design, test, manufacturing, quality, and program leadership to maintain and improve reliability models and analyses.

The engineer will manage FMEA/FMECA, FRACAS, and hazard analyses, ensuring traceability to the design baseline, and will support program reviews with quantitative reliability data and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in reliability engineering, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Three or more years of reliability engineering or related experience.
• Experience with quantitative reliability prediction models for complex hardware systems.
• Experience with FMEA / FMECA and fault-tree analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and mature the system reliability prediction model using Windchill.
• Maintain consistency between the reliability model and current system configuration.
• Update predictions as designs mature and data becomes available.
• Develop and maintain reliability allocations and predictions at system, subsystem, and component levels.
• Evaluate predicted reliability against requirements and identify drivers and margins.
• Collaborate with design teams to obtain data and operating conditions for the reliability model.
• Develop and maintain system-level FMEA and FMECA analyses.
• Coordinate failure-mode information with engineering teams.
• Maintain severity, criticality, and consequences analyses.
• Develop and maintain reliability fault-tree analyses where appropriate.
• Analyze failure data to identify trends and risks.
• Support the FRACAS process with technical analysis.
• Investigate failures to identify root causes and corrective actions.
• Use test, manufacturing, and operation data to refine assumptions.
• Assess reliability impact of design changes and corrective actions.
• Maintain traceability between reliability outputs and baseline.
• Identify reliability-critical items using various inputs.
• Generate reliability results for reviews and customer deliverables.
• Collaborate with maintainability andMBSE engineers to ensure detectability and maintainability.
• Provide reliability data to system safety owners when needed.

Skills

Reliability engineering

FMEA/FMECA

FRACAS

Windchill

Systems engineering

Failure analysis

Root cause analysis

Technical writing

Hazard analysis

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

Windchill

FRACAS tooling

Job description

CFD Research Corporation in Huntsville, AL seeks a full-time Systems Reliability Engineer to mature reliability frameworks for a complex aerospace/defense system. The role collaborates across design, test, manufacturing, quality, and program leadership to maintain and improve reliability models and analyses.

The engineer will manage FMEA/FMECA, FRACAS, and hazard analyses, ensuring traceability to the design baseline, and will support program reviews with quantitative reliability data and