Reliability & Verification Engineer

Tcom, Lp; Sioux Falls (SD); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Flexible spending accounts/HSAs

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Paid time off (PTO)

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

TCOM is seeking a Product Assurance Engineer to independently assure that products meet requirements, perform reliably, and are deployment-ready. You will work across engineering disciplines to verify functionality, investigate issues, analyze reliability, and drive improvements throughout the lifecycle.

You will partner with stakeholders to ensure customer and mission requirements are satisfied before release, applying operational experience to inform future designs and maintain high quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 0–2 years of experience as an entry level or early career engineer.
• Experience developing, integrating, testing, or validating complex technical systems.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience performing structured root cause analysis.
• Understanding of systems engineering principles and product development lifecycles.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop verification plans that demonstrate products satisfy functional and performance requirements.
• Design, execute, and document verification and validation activities.
• Perform system integration, functional, regression, environmental, and acceptance testing.
• Verify traceability between requirements, test procedures, and verification results.
• Identify product defects, characterize failure modes, and work with development teams to resolve issues.
• Evaluate release readiness and provide objective engineering evidence supporting product deployment.
• Participate in laboratory, field, and flight testing activities as required.
• Analyze product performance, reliability, and operational data.
• Identify recurring defects, failure trends, and reliability risks.
• Perform root cause analysis of product anomalies and failures.
• Recommend design, process, or verification improvements that increase product reliability.
• Monitor engineering quality metrics and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support failure investigations and corrective action activities.
• Investigate complex product issues occurring during operational use.
• Participate in engineering response to customer-impacting events and operational anomalies.
• Develop diagnostic tools, troubleshooting procedures, and engineering documentation.
• Reproduce field issues in laboratory environments.
• Document engineering findings and communicate recommendations to development teams.
• Ensure lessons learned from operational experience improve future product releases.
• Develop and maintain automated verification tools and test infrastructure.
• Improve verification efficiency through automation and scripting.
• Contribute to continuous integration and automated validation pipelines.
• Recommend improvements to engineering processes, release readiness practices, and verification methods.
• Help establish engineering standards for product assurance activities.
• Partner with Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering, Manufacturing, and Product Management throughout product development.
• Participate in design reviews to improve product quality, reliability, diagnosability, and testability.
• Communicate technical findings clearly through reports, presentations, and engineering discussions.
• Provide objective engineering input regarding product readiness and operational risk.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Root cause analysis

Systems engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / Computer Science / related

Job description

TCOM is seeking a Product Assurance Engineer to independently assure that products meet requirements, perform reliably, and are deployment-ready. You will work across engineering disciplines to verify functionality, investigate issues, analyze reliability, and drive improvements throughout the lifecycle.

You will partner with stakeholders to ensure customer and mission requirements are satisfied before release, applying operational experience to inform future designs and maintain high quality