Senior Reliability Engineer - Life Data & HALT Testing

Badger Meter Inc; Wisconsin; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Health coverage

Paid time off

Retirement match

Tuition reimbursement

EAP

Life Insurance

Job summary

Badger Meter seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to translate product life and performance expectations into defensible acceptance criteria, acceleration models, executable test plans and field-validated evidence. This role owns design validation planning for new platforms and influences release decisions through rigorous analysis and clear technical judgment.

You will set reliability standards, define stress testing, analyze Weibull data, and integrate warranty and field data to strengthen

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Reliability, Industrial Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years hardware product-development engineering experience, including reliability engineering and life data analysis.
• ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer; Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.

Responsibilities

• Set and maintain reliability standards, statistics, methods and documentation for product claims.
• Translate service-life and warranty expectations into measurable requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Develop test plans defining stress profiles, samples, instrumentation, and failure criteria.
• Lead HALT, HASS, ALT, and step-stress testing appropriate to product risks.
• Determine sample sizes, test durations and confidence levels for reliability demonstrations.
• Develop acceleration factors using physics-of-failure models and validate assumptions.
• Evaluate corner cases and environmental/duty-cycle conditions setting design limits.
• Own the Design Validation Plan for new platforms with traceability and release recommendations.
• Analyze reliability data using Weibull and other life-distribution methods; DOE & regression.
• Integrate warranty, field return, and installed-base data to improve validation.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions within FRACAS; communicate risk clearly.
• Mentor engineers, participate in reviews, and embed reliability across development and production.

Skills

HALT testing

HASS testing

ALT testing

Step-stress testing

Reliability modeling

Physics of failure

Statistical analysis

Design validation planning

Technical influence

Collaboration

Communication

Work standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical or Materials or Reliability or Industrial Engineering

ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer

Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt

Tools

ReliaSoft

Minitab

JMP

Scripting tools

Job description

Badger Meter seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to translate product life and performance expectations into defensible acceptance criteria, acceleration models, executable test plans and field-validated evidence. This role owns design validation planning for new platforms and influences release decisions through rigorous analysis and clear technical judgment.

You will set reliability standards, define stress testing, analyze Weibull data, and integrate warranty and field data to strengthen