Senior Reliability Engineer — Autonomous Construction Machines

Bedrock Robotics Inc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedrock Robotics Inc. is seeking a senior Reliability Engineer to own hardware reliability for our autonomous construction machines.

You will establish reliability requirements, budgets, and plans, lead DFMEA and FTA activities, build reliability models, and drive test programs across sensors, power, actuation, and subsystems to ensure field readiness in demanding environments. Collaborating with mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing teams, you will translate reliability goals into

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Physics, Mechatronics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in hardware reliability engineering for vehicles, heavy machinery, robotics, automotive, aerospace, or industrial equipment.
• Deep, hands-on expertise leading DFMEA and FTA, plus reliability prediction/modeling, accelerated and life testing (HALT/HASS), and structured root-cause analysis / FRACAS.
• Strong working knowledge of reliability and statistical tools (e.g., ReliaSoft Weibull++/BlockSim, Windchill Quality/Relex, Minitab, Python or R); familiarity with PDM/PLM systems a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the hardware reliability strategy, requirements, and budgets for autonomy upfit hardware across the vehicle platform.
• Plan and facilitate Design FMEAs across mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical subsystems.
• Build and maintain fault trees for safety-critical and availability-critical functions; perform qualitative and quantitative FTA, identify minimal cut sets and single points of failure, and link top-level undesired events to design, redundancy, and verification requirements.
• Develop reliability block diagrams, reliability allocations, and predictions; perform Weibull and life-data analysis, reliability growth tracking, and worst-case/derating analysis to forecast field performance and inform design tradeoffs.
• Define and execute HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing (ALT), and environmental/durability test programs; set test-to-failure margins and design ongoing stress screens.
• Stand up and run a Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System; lead root-cause investigations and drive corrective/preventive actions from field and test data into design and process.
• Embed reliability into design and milestone reviews — derating, redundancy, tolerance stack-up, thermal and vibration margin, connector/harness reliability, ingress protection.
• Partner with supply chain and vendors to qualify components and suppliers, define reliability acceptance criteria, review supplier reliability data, and manage derating, qualification, and obsolescence risk.
• Build reliability data pipelines and dashboards from warranty/field returns, machine telemetry, and test data; apply statistical methods to quantify reliability and surface emerging failure trends.
• Partner with electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, and field teams during bring-up, validation, and deployment to turn reliability findings into actionable design, process, and test changes.
• Maintain reliability deliverables and develop best-practice reliability processes that support predictability, transparency, and quality.

Skills

DFMEA leadership

FTA

Reliability modeling

Statistical analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

ReliaSoft Weibull++/BlockSim

Windchill Quality/Relex

Minitab

Python or R

Job description

Bedrock Robotics Inc. is seeking a senior Reliability Engineer to own hardware reliability for our autonomous construction machines.

You will establish reliability requirements, budgets, and plans, lead DFMEA and FTA activities, build reliability models, and drive test programs across sensors, power, actuation, and subsystems to ensure field readiness in demanding environments. Collaborating with mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing teams, you will translate reliability goals into