Engineer III, Electronics Reliability
San Jose, CA 95138
Direct Hire
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include developing and implementing plans and processes to characterize product reliability and performance with a focus on warranty assurance. You will work with product development, supply chain, and manufacturing to ensure that product reliability satisfies company specifications and complies with regulatory requirements for safety and performance.
- Define reliability demonstration and assessment strategies for power electronics
- Champion Design-for-Reliability and Design for Safety
- Conduct Design Failure Mode and Effect Analyses (DFMEA) and lead testing and evaluation of high-risk items
- Create reliability test plans focused on technical risks that complement project schedules and certification requirements
- Develop and document approaches to evaluate product reliability characteristics based on best practices, appropriate standards, and physics-of-failure
- Develop and perform accelerated life tests, Design of Experiments, data analysis, reliability statistical analysis (especially Weibull), and statistical sampling plans
- Manage execution of test plans with internal and external test laboratories
- Ensure tests are successfully executed/implemented and data, results, and recommendations are reported to the organization
- Participate in data reviews and analysis to help determine risks and actual or potential causes of failures and propose possible solutions based on experience and best reliability practices
- Develop subject matter expertise regarding high-risk and high-frequency failure modes, especially for methods of detection and analysis
What do we require from you? - BS or higher degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering and 6+ years relevant work experience in reliability or power electronics
- Work experience requirement can be satisfied with MS degree and 4+ years relevant work experience or a Doctorate degree with no work experience
- Experience using statistical tools to make data-driven decisions
- Professional experience in Reliability Engineering is preferred:
- Effective reliability/life test planning and reporting
- Reliability & failure distribution modeling
- Experience performing reliability qualification of electrical and electronic products
- Working understanding of thermodynamic principles & thermal mechanics preferred
- Excellent documentation and cross-functional collaboration skills are required
- Creativity and problem-solving skills, demonstrated ability to learn on the job and acquire new skills, and a can-do attitude
- A commitment to safe work practices