Staff Systems Reliability Engineer - Fleet Reliability Lead

Divergent; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Health benefits

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Learning & development

Job summary

Divergent is seeking a Staff Systems Reliability Engineer to lead complex, systemic reliability challenges across the additive manufacturing fleet. You will drive root-cause investigations, coordinate RCCAs, and translate fleet learnings into stronger design requirements and validation strategies.

As a technical leader, you will guide cross-functional teams through data-driven decisions, tackle aging issues, and ensure durable actions that close technical debt while informing future product

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of experience in machine development, reliability engineering, manufacturing engineering, equipment engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex root cause investigations and corrective actions on electromechanical or automated equipment.
• Strong understanding of structured problem-solving methodologies such as RCCA, 8D, fault-tree analysis, FMEA, DOE, or equivalent methods.
• Experience working across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, and/or process engineering disciplines.
• Ability to interpret machine and production data, distinguish correlation from root cause, and translate findings into engineering action.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive technically ambiguous, cross-functional problems through resolution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical problems and risk to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Screen, triage, group, organize, and support prioritization of engineering escalations based on fleet impact, recurrence, severity, and business need.
• Determine the appropriate engineering ownership and engage the required SMEs across Hardware, Automation & Controls, Materials & Processes, MDE, Software, and Supplier Quality.
• Drive clarity in clear ownership, priority, status, and next actions for open reliability issues.
• Ensure engineering escalations move quickly from identification to actionable investigation.
• Drive and support coordination of complex and cross-functional RCCAs for recurring, systemic, and machine-level failures.
• Cultivate a problem-solving culture that looks beyond symptoms to identify and understand true root cause.
• Challenge assumptions, identify gaps in evidence, and ensure technical conclusions are supported by data.
• Coordinate with SMEs to develop engineering solutions and drive actions through completion.
• Provide guidance and support evidence generation to demonstrate that a corrective action sufficiently resolves the issue.
• Ensure technical debt is closed by ensuring the identification of root cause, the development of engineering solutions, and the validation that solutions correct the issue.
• Track aging and closure of engineering actions.
• Support the generation of engineering standards and requirements generation throughout the product lifecycle informed by reliability learnings.
• Serve as a technical leader for reliability problems that span multiple engineering disciplines and organizational boundaries.
• Create alignment when ownership or technical direction is unclear and drive teams toward decisions based on evidence.
• Communicate reliability risks, technical findings, tradeoffs, and recommended actions clearly to engineering and business leadership.
• Improve the mechanisms, metrics, and processes used to manage engineering reliability issues and create a sustainable reliability function.

Skills

RCCA

8D analysis

FMEA

Fault-tree analysis

DOE

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Job description

Divergent is seeking a Staff Systems Reliability Engineer to lead complex, systemic reliability challenges across the additive manufacturing fleet. You will drive root-cause investigations, coordinate RCCAs, and translate fleet learnings into stronger design requirements and validation strategies.

As a technical leader, you will guide cross-functional teams through data-driven decisions, tackle aging issues, and ensure durable actions that close technical debt while informing future product