Senior Reliability Engineer – Renewable Energy, Equity

1st Avenue Power; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with employer match

Equity

Job summary

1st Avenue Power seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to define and lead the reliability strategy for next-generation renewable energy products in the Mountain View Bay Area.

You will own reliability from architecture through field deployment, partnering with Hardware, Firmware, Systems, Validation, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Product Management, and Field Service teams to proactively eliminate failure mechanisms and drive reliability growth using data-driven practices.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Electrical, Mechanical, Reliability Engineering or related discipline.
• 8+ years in reliability engineering for renewable energy or power systems.
• Experience with accelerated life testing, statistical reliability and failure analysis.
• Experience with DFMEA, PFMEA, DRBFM and root cause methodologies.
• Strong communication and technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability strategy across the complete product lifecycle.
• Define quantitative reliability requirements, availability targets and warranty objectives.
• Develop mission profiles representing utility-scale solar, BESS, microgrid and data-center applications.
• Lead reliability design reviews and reliability sign-off before production.
• Analyze warranty and fleet, manufacturing and field-return data to drive improvements.

Skills

Reliability engineering

DFMEA

PFMEA

DRBFM

Root cause analysis

Accelerated life testing

Power electronics

Statistical analysis

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Electrical Eng

Mechanical Eng

Reliability Eng

Tools

ReliaSoft Weibull++

JMP

Minitab

MATLAB

Python

Altium

Job description

1st Avenue Power seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to define and lead the reliability strategy for next-generation renewable energy products in the Mountain View Bay Area.

You will own reliability from architecture through field deployment, partnering with Hardware, Firmware, Systems, Validation, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Product Management, and Field Service teams to proactively eliminate failure mechanisms and drive reliability growth using data-driven practices.