Robotics Reliability Engineer - Motors, Mechanisms and Electronics

Matic Robots; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A home robotics company in Mountain View is seeking a Robotics Reliability Engineer with 2-5 years of experience to drive reliability across various sub-systems. The ideal candidate will have a technical degree in mechanical engineering, experience in designing test setups, and a strong statistical background. This is a full-time position in an innovative and fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of work experience in a reliability engineering position.
• Track record of defining reliability targets and test plans for consumer electronic products.
• Comfort with fast-paced, startup atmosphere.

Responsibilities

• Drive all reliability requirements across different sub-systems.
• Oversee the design and build of test setups for different loading scenarios.
• Perform root-cause failure analysis at different stages of testing.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Test setup design

Statistical analysis

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)

Design of Experiments (DOE)

Education

Technical degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent

Job description

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Company Overview

Each year, 2.5 trillion hours are spent on household chores. At Matic, we’re on a mission to recapture that lost time, and we’re doing it by revolutionizing home robotics.

Our first product, also called Matic, is a Wall‑E‑esque floor cleaning robot. We've built what amounts to "full self‑driving in the home” with real‑time 3D mapping, adaptive path‑tracking, and a precise semantic understanding of the home. Our breakthroughs in spatial AI allow Matic to work reliably in real homes, using only RGB cameras and neural networks running on‑device.

Privacy First: What happens in the home, stays in the home. Our robots are private by design, with all data processing performed by the robot itself, not in the cloud.

Our Approach: Before the iPhone, consumers adopted several distinct devices; cell phones, PDAs, and portable music players each served a particular need. We believe in a similar progression for home robotics, starting with single‑purpose robots and building iteratively toward more complex capabilities over time.

Our Culture: Matic is a tight‑knit and collaborative team, singularly focused on building products our customers will cherish. We're ultra‑hardworking people committed to solving tough problems that save precious time and energy.

About The Role

What you’ll do

• Drive all reliability requirements across different sub‑systems.
• Work with design engineers to understand the physics of failure and apply them to designing accelerated test methods to represent field behaviors.
• Oversee the design and build of test setups for different loading scenarios – fatigue, vibration and shock, temperature and humidity, etc.
• Perform root‑cause failure analysis at different stages of testing.
• Prepare concise and detailed test plans, drive test execution, analyze test reports and present results to all relevant stakeholders.
• Create and manage fleet analytics pipelines to systematically identify and eliminate field failures.
• Lead design initiatives that require particularly detailed reliability‑oriented testing and analysis.
• Strengthen DFR practices while acting in a cross‑disciplinary fashion spanning across all functions of mechanical, electrical and software engineering.

What We Look For

• Technical degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• 2‑5 years of work experience in reliability engineering position.
• Track record of defining reliability targets and test plans for consumer electronic products.
• Experience driving the design of test setups for reliability testing.
• Statistical experience such as Weibull++ or familiarity with different accelerated test models.
• Solid understanding of Design of Experiments (DOE) and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA).
• Comfort with fast‑paced, startup atmosphere -- you don’t shy away from the hard work.
• High level of maturity, ownership, and pride in your work.

We’ll Love to Hear From You If

• You are genuinely motivated to help those around you.
• You are passionate about learning outside of your normal comfort zones.
• You love diagnosing complex technical issues.
• You are excited to do great work.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

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