Reliability Engineer for Autonomous Construction Machinery

Bedrock Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Robotics is seeking a Reliability Engineer to own hardware reliability for next-gen autonomous construction machines. You will define reliability programs across compute, sensors, power, and subsystems, lead DFMEAs and FTA, build reliability models, and close field failures back into design.

Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, software, manufacturing, and field teams to ensure machines perform in real-world harsh environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Physics, Mechatronics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in hardware reliability engineering for vehicles, heavy machinery, robotics, automotive, aerospace, or industrial equipment.
• Deep hands-on DFMEA/FTA leadership, reliability prediction/modeling, HALT/HASS, ALT, and FRACAS-root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Define and own hardware reliability strategy, requirements, and budgets for autonomy upfit hardware.
• Plan and facilitate DFMEA across mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical subsystems.
• Build and maintain fault trees for safety-critical functions and drive design/test actions to closure.
• Develop reliability block diagrams, predictions, Weibull/life-data analysis, and reliability growth tracking.
• Define and execute HALT/HASS, ALT, and environmental/durability tests with margins.
• Lead field failure investigations (8D, 5-Whys, fishbone) and drive corrective actions into design.
• Embed reliability into design reviews (derating, redundancy, margin) and gate NPIs.
• Collaborate with supply chain and vendors on component reliability and obsolescence risk.
• Build reliability data pipelines and dashboards; apply statistics to surface trends.
• Partner with cross-functional teams during bring-up, validation, and deployment.

Skills

DFMEA

FTA

Reliability modeling

Weibull analysis

Statistical tools

Python

Minitab

ReliaSoft

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Reliability Engineering experience

Tools

ReliaSoft Weibull++/BlockSim

Windchill Quality/Relex

Minitab

Python or R

Job description

Bedrock Robotics is seeking a Reliability Engineer to own hardware reliability for next-gen autonomous construction machines. You will define reliability programs across compute, sensors, power, and subsystems, lead DFMEAs and FTA, build reliability models, and close field failures back into design.

Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, software, manufacturing, and field teams to ensure machines perform in real-world harsh environments.