Reliability Validation Engineer – Test & Analysis Lead

CelLink Corporation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Employee stock option plan

Job summary

CelLink Corporation is seeking a hands-on Reliability Validation & Testing Engineer to lead product reliability validation across the NPI lifecycle. The role focuses on designing, executing, and analyzing reliability tests across electrical, mechanical, thermal, and environmental domains to ensure targets before production ramp.

You will own the validation strategy from test planning through data analysis, failure investigation, and design feedback, partnering with design and manufacturing to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Materials Engineering.
• 3–6 years of reliability validation, test engineering, or product validation experience.
• Hands-on lab-based testing experience required.
• Experience creating and executing DVP&R plans.
• Knowledge of acceleration models (Arrhenius, Coffin–Manson).
• HALT / HASS methodologies is a plus.
• Proficiency in statistical analysis (Excel, JMP, Minitab, Python).
• Ability to perform 8D, fishbone, fault tree analyses.

Responsibilities

• Develop reliability validation strategies aligned with reliability targets (MTBF, mission profile, warranty life).
• Execute electrical, mechanical, environmental, and thermal reliability tests.
• Create and maintain DVP&R focused on reliability validation and accelerated life testing.
• Lead failure investigations from lab or field returns and perform root-cause analyses.
• Collaborate with design and manufacturing to implement validation learnings into product and processes.

Skills

Reliability fundamentals

Arrhenius model

Weibull analysis

DVP&R

Vibration testing

Thermal cycling

Electrical load testing

FMEA

8D / DMAIC

Statistical analysis

Python

Education

Bachelor's or Advanced degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Materials Engineering

Tools

JMP

Minitab

Python scripting

Job description

CelLink Corporation is seeking a hands-on Reliability Validation & Testing Engineer to lead product reliability validation across the NPI lifecycle. The role focuses on designing, executing, and analyzing reliability tests across electrical, mechanical, thermal, and environmental domains to ensure targets before production ramp.

You will own the validation strategy from test planning through data analysis, failure investigation, and design feedback, partnering with design and manufacturing to