Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer & Test Architect

Rhoda AI; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhoda AI in Mountain View seeks a Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer to own reliability as an engineering discipline. You will decompose platform requirements into mission profiles and lead accelerated test campaigns across HALT, thermal cycling, vibration, and fatigue.

You will build FMEA/FMECA analyses, apply Weibull and MTBF methods, and partner with actuators, electronics, and structures teams to translate test data into design fixes.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical, Electrical, or Reliability Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years in reliability engineering with ownership of mission-profile development and accelerated test design.
• Experience developing mission profiles or usage/environmental duty-cycle models from product requirements.
• Working knowledge of acceleration models (Arrhenius, Coffin-Manson, inverse power law).
• Hands-on with FMEA/FMECA, Weibull analysis, MTBF/MTTF modeling.
• Experience with electromechanical systems in active development projects.

Responsibilities

• Decompose platform/subsystem requirements into mission profiles and real-world use cases.
• Translate mission profiles into accelerated test plans with defined factors and sample sizes.
• Build and maintain FMEA/FMECA analyses and drive design changes to prevent failures.
• Apply reliability methods (Weibull, MTBF/MTTF) to test and field data for trends.
• Collaborate with actuator, electrical, and structures teams to define test-stand needs.
• Develop reliability data infrastructure and reporting to monitor platform maturity.

Skills

Mission profile development

Accelerated test design

FMEA/FMECA

Weibull analysis

MTBF/MTTF modeling

Physics-of-failure models

Electromechanical systems

Cross-functional communication

Reliability data analysis

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering or Reliability Engineering

Tools

Python scripting

Job description

Rhoda AI in Mountain View seeks a Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer to own reliability as an engineering discipline. You will decompose platform requirements into mission profiles and lead accelerated test campaigns across HALT, thermal cycling, vibration, and fatigue.

You will build FMEA/FMECA analyses, apply Weibull and MTBF methods, and partner with actuators, electronics, and structures teams to translate test data into design fixes.