Senior Reliability Test Engineer - Research Hardware

Apex Systems; Redmond, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401K with company match

ESPP

HSA health savings account

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Certification discounts

Job summary

Everforth Apex, a world-class IT services company, seeks a senior Reliability Engineer to own the reliability strategy for research hardware programs in Redmond, onsite. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand new designs and mitigate risks, driving failures to closure with clear root-cause actions.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, data analysis, and collaboration with external partners, ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Materials Science or related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on reliability, test, or product validation engineering experience in consumer electronics; strong failure analysis and root-cause methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define reliability strategies and test plans for research hardware programs across build phases.
• Plan, schedule, and execute reliability testing at component and full-system levels.
• Define sample sizes, pass/fail criteria, and acceptance limits per program requirements and industry standards.
• Design, develop, and validate new reliability test setups including mechanical, electrical, and software systems.
• Triage and drive reliability failures to closure with design partners; articulate root cause and corrective actions.
• Interface with external manufacturing and supply partners on reliability issues and joint test activity.
• Analyze reliability and test data using statistical methods to draw clear conclusions from prototype data.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Failure analysis

Root cause analysis

Statistical methods

Education

Bachelors/Masters in Engineering

Tools

JMP

Python

MATLAB

NX

SolidWorks

Job description

Everforth Apex, a world-class IT services company, seeks a senior Reliability Engineer to own the reliability strategy for research hardware programs in Redmond, onsite. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand new designs and mitigate risks, driving failures to closure with clear root-cause actions.

The role emphasizes hands-on testing, data analysis, and collaboration with external partners, ensuring compliance with industry standards.