Senior UAS Reliability Engineer – Systems & Field Focus

Mach Industries; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Professional development

Equity grants

Job summary

Mach Industries seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to own the reliability program for UAS platforms. You’ll work hands-on with hardware, test setups, failure evidence, and engineering teams to drive reliability decisions under schedule pressure.

You will use RBDs, FMECA, and root-cause analysis to identify high-risk points, design robust tests, and push for mitigations while communicating residual risk to stakeholders. A startup-pace culture welcomes proactive problem solvers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's in engineering field.
• 5+ years of reliability, test, failure analysis, or hardware systems experience.
• Hands-on use of reliability diagrams and FMECA with data-driven actions.
• Ability to derive engineering actions from incomplete data.
• Cross-functional experience with design, test, manufacturing, quality, or field ops.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a reliability program across hardware, electrical, firmware, production, and field feedback.
• Use reliability diagrams and FMECA to identify single-point failures and high-risk dependencies.
• Recommend tests based on failure hypotheses and mission risk.
• Lead root-cause investigations using teardown data and manufacturing records.
• Establish lightweight failure-reporting and corrective-action workflows.
• Decide what reliability work must happen now and communicate residual risk.
• Partner cross-functionally to close reliability gaps.

Skills

Reliability engineering

FMEA/FMECA

Root cause analysis

Test planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decision making

Documentation and reporting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, or Systems Engineering

Job description

Mach Industries seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to own the reliability program for UAS platforms. You’ll work hands-on with hardware, test setups, failure evidence, and engineering teams to drive reliability decisions under schedule pressure.

You will use RBDs, FMECA, and root-cause analysis to identify high-risk points, design robust tests, and push for mitigations while communicating residual risk to stakeholders. A startup-pace culture welcomes proactive problem solvers.