Sr. Reliability Engineer

Senior Reliability Engineer supporting the development of new life science technology within an R&D group. Provides hands-on reliability expertise for complex instruments, including lab testing, field failure support, and cost reduction/sustaining activities. Location: Milpitas, CA (Onsite 5 days/week). Temp-to-perm possibility.

• Lead and monitor multiple reliability projects
• Provide reliability risk assessments to cross-functional teams and leadership
• Create and implement test plans to mitigate risks in new product designs
• Facilitate multidisciplinary FMEA discussions to evaluate technical risk
• Record, organize, and analyze large sets of detailed test data
• Troubleshoot instrument failures and direct root cause investigations
• Guide corrective action identification, implementation, and validation
• Provide engineering input for new designs to ensure reliable, robust products
• Support lab testing (30%), field failure review/solutions (40%), and cost-reduction/sustaining work (30%)

• Reliability analysis and reliability engineering fundamentals (life predictions, root cause analysis, environmental/accelerated testing)
• Strong communication skills
• Nice to have: DFMEA, electronics hardware design, fluidics, optics, test automation (LabView, Arduino)

• Nice to have: Six Sigma tools, design of experiments, data tools (Minitab, MATLAB, JMP, R)

• 5-10 years overall

• Minimum 5 years of reliability engineering experience (or equivalent experimental/statistical testing experience); 2 years may be substituted with an advanced engineering degree

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline required
• Willingness to work in a BSL2 lab and prepare blood samples for testing (training provided)
• Ability to work onsite 5 days/week in Milpitas, CA
• No drug screening required