Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer — Onsite SF + Equity

Atoms; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Equity

401(k)

Job summary

Atoms is seeking a Senior Hardware Reliability & Environmental Test Engineer to define hardware qualification standards, manage reliability budgets, and own environmental testing across platforms. You’ll drive design verification, HALT, and lab partnerships to ensure robust hardware in real-world environments.

Expect end-to-end ownership of test programs, data-driven design changes, and ongoing collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, materials or related engineering field; equivalent hands-on experience considered.
• Deployed fleet experience in autonomous vehicles, EV, or robotics.
• 10+ years in hardware reliability, environmental test or design validation on electromechanical and electronic hardware.
• Ownership of environmental and accelerated life test programs end to end across multiple products or programs.
• Experience defining a reliability or qualification standard adopted by multiple teams.
• Working knowledge of test methods, with the ability to tailor test requirements to an application.
• Experience deriving test profiles from measured field data, including instrumentation and data acquisition.
• Proficiency in DFMEA, fault tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, reliability growth and Weibull analysis.
• Ability to work onsite five days a week in San Francisco, with travel to production and field sites.

Responsibilities

• Define hardware qualification standards, including environmental requirements, test methods, and acceptance criteria.
• Define reliability and availability requirements for hardware systems and subsystems.
• Own the design verification plan and report, covering thermal cycling, shock, humidity, vibration, dust and water ingress, corrosion, altitude and fluid resistance.
• Collect and analyze field load data, and derive mission profiles and accelerated test profiles from measured operating conditions.
• Own the environmental test equipment plan and its justification. Specify, commission and maintain equipment, fixturing, instrumentation and calibration records, and determine which testing runs internally and which is run with external labs.
• Own external test lab relationships.
• Plan and execute HALT for design margin and accelerated life testing for life estimation.
• Lead DFMEA, fault tree analysis and reliability block diagram activities and track the resulting actions into the verification plan.
• Analyze field failures and returned hardware, drive root cause and corrective action, and revise test requirements based on the results.
• Set the reliability acceptance criteria suppliers are held to, review and challenge supplier qualification data, and specify additional testing where application conditions are not covered.

Skills

Hardware reliability

Environmental testing

DFMEA

Fault tree analysis

Weibull analysis

Test profile derivation

Field data analysis

Cross-team ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, materials or related field

Job description

Atoms is seeking a Senior Hardware Reliability & Environmental Test Engineer to define hardware qualification standards, manage reliability budgets, and own environmental testing across platforms. You’ll drive design verification, HALT, and lab partnerships to ensure robust hardware in real-world environments.

Expect end-to-end ownership of test programs, data-driven design changes, and ongoing collaboration with cross-functional teams.