In-Office Reliability Engineer – Contract-to-Hire (Defense Tech)

Sigma Design Inc; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

401(k) match

PTO 15 days

Holidays 9

Quarterly bonus

Vision insurance

Long-term disability

Life insurance

In-office

Job summary

Sigma Design, in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Reliability Engineer to ensure product reliability across the lifecycle, partnering across disciplines to evaluate designs and drive continuous improvements for production readiness.

The role requires 5+ years in reliability or related roles, with familiarity in MIL-STD standards and safety-critical systems, in-office work, and a contract-to-hire arrangement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Systems Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years as Reliability/Design/Test engineer.
• Experience with safety-critical hardware/software in aerospace/defense.
• Knowledge of MIL-STD standards (810, 217, 461, 516C, 1629) and MIL-HDBK variants.
• Experience with FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, Weibull, reliability modeling.
• Experience with qualification, environmental, accelerated life testing.
• Strong analytical, writing, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Compliance: ITAR, background check, vaccine.

Responsibilities

• Perform predictive reliability analyses including MTTF/MTBF calculations and Weibull analysis.
• Lead FMEA, FTA and root cause investigations to drive corrective actions.
• Develop and execute qualification, validation, environmental, and accelerated life testing plans.
• Collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and test teams to improve designs and reliability.
• Support design reviews and manufacturing readiness activities.
• Develop maintainability models and sparing strategies.
• Create and improve standardized reliability processes, tools, and documentation.
• Follow IT policies to protect data and reduce security occurrences.

Skills

MTTF/MTBF

Weibull analysis

FMEA/FTA

Root cause analysis

Reliability modeling

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Sigma Design, in Costa Mesa, CA, is seeking a Reliability Engineer to ensure product reliability across the lifecycle, partnering across disciplines to evaluate designs and drive continuous improvements for production readiness.

The role requires 5+ years in reliability or related roles, with familiarity in MIL-STD standards and safety-critical systems, in-office work, and a contract-to-hire arrangement.