Senior Power Electronics Reliability Engineer

Aleron

Milwaukee (WI)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 150,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Acara Solutions is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to lead reliability strategies for high-power electronics, industrial drives, EV powertrain test systems, and battery cyclers. You will design tests, build life models, and coordinate failure analysis across labs while delivering actionable design recommendations.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in electronics reliability, strong statistics experience, and hands-on lab testing skills.

Qualifications

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Applied Statistics, or a closely related discipline.
Minimum 5 years of experience in reliability engineering of electronics or semiconductors, preferably power electronics, with experience in reliability test planning, statistics, and failure analysis.
Experience coordinating structured failure analysis and root‑cause investigations.
Ability to work safely around high‑power electrical equipment up to 690 Vac three‑phase and 2000 Vdc.

Responsibilities

Develop product and component reliability requirements, plans, test strategies, and acceptance criteria.
Select and specify appropriate reliability tests based on product architecture, use conditions, failure mechanisms, and business risk.
Design accelerated life, endurance, environmental, thermal cycling, power cycling, HALT/HASS programs and reliability demonstration plans.
Provide hands-on setup, monitoring, data review, and technical oversight of testing in the lab.
Coordinate testing with third‑party laboratories and define statements of work.
Develop mission profiles, reliability block diagrams, life predictions, and system reliability models.
Perform reliability predictions using Telcordia SR‑332 and other industry methods to estimate failure rates and availability.
Apply Weibull, life‑data, accelerated life testing, and reliability growth analyses.
Analyze lab, manufacturing, warranty, and field‑return data to estimate useful life and MTBF.
Coordinate failure analysis, including planning, evidence preservation, external support, root‑cause, and corrective action verification.
Facilitate FMEA and identify critical components and reliability risks.
Collaborate with Product Development, Validation, Compliance, Quality, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to improve robustness.
Support component qualification, supplier evaluation, derating guidelines, design reviews, and proto‑to‑production transitions.
Prepare clear technical reports communicating risks, assumptions, results, and recommendations.