Senior Aircraft Reliability Engineer

Speedrun Talent Network; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to lead reliability activities for aircraft systems, working across engineering disciplines to establish requirements, budgets, and analyses. You will serve as the primary reliability contact for programs, communicating performance, risks, and improvements to leadership and customers.

The role requires experience with FMEA/FMECA, Weibull analysis, MTBF/MTBCF, and FRACAS, and must support SRR/ PDR/CDR/TRR reviews while mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in reliability engineering, systems engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of related experience in reliability engineering or a related technical field.
• Direct experience supporting aircraft development, integration, testing sustainment, or operations.
• Experience developing and managing reliability budgets at system, subsystem, or equipment level.
• Proficiency with reliability methods such as FMEA/FMECA, FTA, RBD, Weibull, and FRACAS.
• Familiarity with reliability metrics like MTBF, MTBCF, failure rate, mission reliability, and availability.
• Ability to obtain/maintain required security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain aircraft-level reliability requirements and program reliability plans.
• Allocate and manage reliability budgets across systems and LRU-levels.
• Track predicted reliability against targets and identify drivers of risk.
• Perform reliability predictions using data and mission profiles.
• Conduct FMEA, FMECA, FTA, and RBD analyses.
• Support safety assessments with reliability data.
• Maintain MTBF, MTBCF, mission reliability, and availability metrics.
• Lead or support FRACAS activities.
• Analyze test and field data to identify reliability trends.
• Apply Weibull and other statistics to predict life.
• Collaborate with design to reduce single-points of failure and improve fault tolerance.
• Review supplier reliability data and test results.
• Define data needs for reliability demonstrations and growth testing.
• Support SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR reviews and reliability boards.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Systems engineering

Analytical thinking

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in reliability engineering or related field

Tools

ReliaSoft

Windchill Quality Solutions

Isograph

RAM Commander

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to lead reliability activities for aircraft systems, working across engineering disciplines to establish requirements, budgets, and analyses. You will serve as the primary reliability contact for programs, communicating performance, risks, and improvements to leadership and customers.

The role requires experience with FMEA/FMECA, Weibull analysis, MTBF/MTBCF, and FRACAS, and must support SRR/ PDR/CDR/TRR reviews while mentoring junior engineers.