Senior Reliability Engineer

Celestica; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to join cross-functional teams in ensuring product reliability. The role requires defining testing strategies, conducting reliability assessments, and collaborating with design and manufacturing teams. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in engineering and hands-on experience with reliability testing methods and software. Excellent communication skills and the ability to work independently are essential for success in this position.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with reliability testing methodologies.
• Familiar with reliability data analysis software.
• Ability to work independently and self-motivated.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability analysis with design teams.
• Define reliability testing strategy and conduct tests.
• Conduct design reviews and fix design issues.
• Perform failure analysis and generate reports.
• Train manufacturing personnel on testing processes.

Skills

FMEA knowledge

Design for reliability (DFR)

Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)

Environmental testing

Excellent communication skills

Project management skills

Data analysis skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical, electronic or mechanical engineering

Tools

JMP

Minitab

Weibull software

Job description

Req ID: 131037

Region: Americas

Country: USA

State/Province: Texas

City: Austin

Summary

The Senior Reliability Engineer works in cross functional teams with designers, customers and manufacturing engineering and project leaders to ensure products designed can meet reliability specifications. Define the reliability testing strategy, reliability test plan and conduct tests. Complete a stress based MTBF analysis of products, thus providing initial reliability predictions.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Lead reliability analysis and work with the design teams to ensure the products designed can meet reliability specification.
• Work with the design team and customers to understand and define reliability requirements of products.
• Conduct design review and close loops with the design team to fix design issues.
• Define the reliability testing strategy, reliability test plan and conduct test.
• Complete a stress based MTBF analysis of the product, thus providing initial reliability predictions.
• Coordinate third-party performance and regulatory testing.
• Train relevant manufacturing partner personnel to conduct the test.
• Perform failure analysis and generate failure reports.
• Design guidelines recommendations based on run to failure testing and stress vs strength analysis.
• Actively collaborate with the engineering team and seek opportunities to develop new/improve existing durability test methodology to enhance product development efficiency.
• Apply problem-solving and analytical skills to conduct failure analysis.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Hands-on and experienced with FMEA, design for reliability (DFR), DFT and design for manufacturability (DFM) concepts, particularly as they relate to process, property and complex manufacturing systems.
• Familiar with Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), De-rating, reparable and life analysis.
• Familiar with Environmental and reliability testing such as Vibration test, shock test, drop test, storage test, HALT/HASS, acoustic test, RVI test, etc.
• Familiar with reliability data analysis software, e.g. JMP, Minitab, and/or Weibull.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Project management and data analysis skills.
• Able to work independently, self-motivated and well-organized.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, electronic or mechanical engineering.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Celestica is an E-Verify employer.