Hardware Reliability Engineer

Meta; Menlo Park, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta Infrastructure's Hardware Product Integrity team seeks a seasoned hardware reliability engineer to help design and sustain next-generation data center hardware.

You will apply FMEA, Weibull, MTBF modeling, analyze field failures, and drive root-cause investigations with suppliers, influencing server, storage, and networking hardware across Meta's global data centers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• 6+ years of hardware reliability engineering experience.
• Experience applying FMEA, HALT, ALT, Weibull, MTBF to infrastructure hardware.
• Experience analyzing field failure data and corrective actions.
• Experience collaborating with suppliers and contract manufacturers on reliability.
• Ability to communicate reliability findings to engineers and operations.
• MSc preferred in related disciplines.
• Familiarity with data center environments and server rack hardware is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive reliability engineering across server, storage, and networking hardware in data centers.
• Apply failure analysis, accelerated life testing, and reliability modeling to reduce field failures.
• Collaborate with suppliers and contract manufacturers to enforce qualification standards.
• Translate findings into root-cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Communicate complex reliability findings to engineering and operations stakeholders.

Skills

Hardware reliability engineering

Failure analysis

FMEA

HALT

ALT

Weibull analysis

MTBF modeling

Root cause analysis

Data analysis

Communication to stakeholders

Silicon reliability (plus)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering

MSc in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Job Description

As a member of Meta Infrastructure's Hardware Product Integrity team you will work on next-generation data center hardware. You will be a part of futuristic projects including HW that will serve as the backbone for Meta's AGI vision, be in a position to influence HW technology that serves to connect billions of people across the world! In this role, you will drive reliability engineering efforts across server, storage, and networking hardware deployed in Meta's data centers, applying failure analysis, accelerated life testing, and reliability modeling to reduce field failures and improve hardware reliability.

Qualifications and Responsibilities

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline
• 6+ years of experience in hardware reliability engineering, including failure analysis and reliability testing of infrastructure hardware
• Experience applying reliability engineering methodologies such as FMEA, HALT, ALT, Weibull analysis, and MTBF modeling to infrastructure hardware
• Experience analyzing field failure data and translating findings into actionable root cause investigations and corrective actions
• Experience collaborating with hardware suppliers and contract manufacturers to evaluate component reliability and enforce qualification standards
• Experience communicating complex reliability findings and technical trade-offs to engineering and operations stakeholders through written reports and presentations
• Experience in silicon reliability and working on custom silicon is a plus
• MSc in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related disciplines
• Familiarity with data center environments is beneficial
• First-hand knowledge of server rack hardware is preferred