Senior Hardware Reliability & Quality Strategist

Meta; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 208,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta Reality Labs seeks a Sustaining Reliability Engineer to set long-term reliability and quality direction for consumer hardware across the Meta device portfolio, including VR/AR headsets and wearables. You will own reliability strategy for the installed base and scalable manufacturing, from launch through end of life, driving systemic field resolution and influencing design and supplier processes.

You will define field analytics, establish standards, lead cross-functional root-cause analyses,

Qualifications

• 10+ years hardware reliability engineering experience.
• Experience in consumer electronics, wearable devices, or similar electro‑mechanical products.
• Experience driving root cause analysis, DOE, and corrective actions on complex hardware systems.
• Experience analyzing reliability data, field return, and warranty metrics to identify systemic trends.
• Knowledge of industry test standards (ASTM, MIL, JEDEC, IEC).
• Knowledge of failure analysis techniques and tools (optical microscopy, X‑Ray, CT, SEM, EDX, FTIR).
• Ability to drive decisions across multiple teams in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability and quality strategy and metrics for products in market or scaling in manufacturing.
• Drive systemic resolution of field performance issues and return-rate optimization to root cause and corrective action.
• Partner with internal leaders and external suppliers to ensure long-term hardware field performance.
• Define and own field signal analytics, product health telemetry, and failure-reaction frameworks.
• Set thresholds and escalation triggers for fielded products.
• Establish standards and metrics for sustaining reliability including ongoing testing and change control.
• Lead complex root-cause analyses for reliability escapes and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Provide design-for-reliability evaluations to inform next-generation designs.
• Own the quality management system for sustaining products.
• Translate reliability data into risk assessments for executive decisions.
• Mentor reliability engineers to raise team capability.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Field data analysis

DOE

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Optical microscopy

X-Ray

CT scan

SEM

EDX

FTIR

Job description

Meta Reality Labs seeks a Sustaining Reliability Engineer to set long-term reliability and quality direction for consumer hardware across the Meta device portfolio, including VR/AR headsets and wearables. You will own reliability strategy for the installed base and scalable manufacturing, from launch through end of life, driving systemic field resolution and influencing design and supplier processes.

You will define field analytics, establish standards, lead cross-functional root-cause analyses,