Maritime Fleet Reliability Engineer - Hardware Uptime

Quartermaster AI Inc; Arlington, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Quartermaster AI Inc. is building a real-time maritime sensor network and is hiring a Fleet Reliability Engineer to own the health, uptime, and long-term reliability of our deployed SmartMast hardware fleet.

You will translate fleet telemetry into action, drive RCA, and close loops with hardware, firmware, and field‑service teams so the same failures never recur. This senior, hands-on role requires cross-disciplinary work across hardware, embedded systems, data, and harsh‑environment field

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Reliability, or related engineering.
• 5+ years engineering experience with deployed electro-mechanical hardware.
• Demonstrated ownership of hardware reliability outcomes for a fleet or installed base.
• Hands-on proficiency with root-cause analysis methods (8D, 5-Whys, fishbone) and reliability tools such as FMEA, fault-tree analysis, and CAPA.
• Data fluency: able to query, analyze, and visualize fleet telemetry using SQL and Python to find trends and drive decisions.
• Willingness and ability to travel periodically to field sites (vessels, ports, installation locations).
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and able to satisfy any customer-or contract-driven eligibility requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own fleet-wide reliability metrics (uptime, availability, MTBF, MTTR) and report them to engineering and leadership.
• Build dashboards, alerting, and telemetry pipelines that surface degrading units before they go offline.
• Lead root-cause analysis (RCA) on field failures and drive CAPA to closure.
• Define preventive maintenance schedules, spares strategy, and the RMA/repair-and-return process for a globally distributed fleet.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and manufacturing teams to translate field failures into design-for-reliability and firmware changes.

Skills

Fleet reliability

Embedded hardware

Telemetry analysis

Root-cause analysis

Data visualization

SQL

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Systems, Reliability, or related engineering discipline

Tools

FMEA

CAPA

RCA

Job description

Quartermaster AI Inc. is building a real-time maritime sensor network and is hiring a Fleet Reliability Engineer to own the health, uptime, and long-term reliability of our deployed SmartMast hardware fleet.

You will translate fleet telemetry into action, drive RCA, and close loops with hardware, firmware, and field‑service teams so the same failures never recur. This senior, hands-on role requires cross-disciplinary work across hardware, embedded systems, data, and harsh‑environment field