Senior Staff Hardware Reliability Engineer, Agility Robotics
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Office located in Fremont, CA
Robotic automation for the warehouse and logistics
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Robotic automation for the warehouse and logistics
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
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More information about location
Office located in Fremont, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make businesses more productive and people's lives more fulfilling.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in reliability engineering for complex hardware systems
- Strong preference for candidates with experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or other high-reliability industries
- Extensive experience with reliability engineering principles, including component derating, FMEA/DFMEA, and Coffin-Manson analysis for fatigue prediction
- Proficiency in reliability testing methods such as HALT, HASS, vibration, and thermal cycling
- Strong understanding of mechanical systems, electronic components (PCBAs, motor controllers), sensors, and materials science
- Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on data-driven decision-making
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, capable of working with cross-disciplinary teams and suppliers
- Proven ability to lead RCA efforts, implement corrective actions, and drive reliability improvements
- Experience with industry-standard reliability engineering and modeling tools such as ReliaSoft, ANSYS Sherlock, and Windchill Quality Solutions (Relex)
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (Master’s or PhD preferred)
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Staff Reliability Engineer with 15+ years of experience to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area
- In this hybrid role, you will serve as the technical leader for humanoid robot reliability
- This role is critical to ensuring the performance, safety, and durability of our products throughout their lifecycle
- Leveraging your deep expertise in reliability engineering, you will lead efforts to establish reliability standards, conduct advanced analyses, and drive improvements across key hardware components and systems
- Lead the overall hardware reliability strategy across the full humanoid robotic system including actuators, motor controllers, PCBAs, sensors, limbs, and end effectors
- Define reliability metrics, lifecycle-stage goals, and test protocols from design through production
- Drive Design for Reliability practices (FMEA/DFMEA, stress analysis, reliability growth modeling) and integrate reliability into cross-functional engineering design workflows
- Develop reliability standards and targets, documentation, and best practices to scale future hardware development
- Develop and execute reliability validation plans including HALT, HASS, vibration, thermal cycling, and environmental stress testing
- Design accelerated testing approaches that extract meaningful insights from small sample sizes using statistical methods and engineering judgment
- Apply component derating principles and perform thermal, electrical, mechanical, and Coffin-Manson fatigue analyses to predict lifecycle and identify failure risks
- Lead hardware failure RCA efforts, implementing corrective and preventative actions
- Analyze prototype, production, and field data to identify trends and drive reliability improvements
- Partner with suppliers to ensure sourced components meet reliability and quality standards
- Communicate reliability insights to engineering leadership and executives, and mentor junior engineers to build a strong reliability culture
Our take
Agility Robotics was founded with the aim of empowering the blended workforce, where humans and human-movement-enabled robots work side by side. Though there’s still plenty of wariness about what workplace robots might mean for the future of the workforce, the amount of R&D and Venture Capital funding into the space – coupled with an acute labour shortage – suggests that there’s no holding it back.
The company, founded by a team of Robotics and Bioengineering academics, has hit the headlines a number of times in the last few years for the mobility and dexterity of its robots which can walk around, move packages, and unload trailers (as well as climb stairs and run a 5K). This ability to run could have a huge impact, as it opens up the potential not just to work in warehouses and factories, but to complete last-mile deliveries – an ambition that Agility Robotics has made public.
It's advancing humanoid robotics with its robot, Digit, already working in logistics and delivery. With partnerships like Schaeffler AG and a new production facility, Agility is scaling up operations. Digit's tasks, including package handling, and future plans for self-replication, position the company to address labor shortages. As it enhanced Digit's AI and safety features, Agility is preparing for a future where robots and humans work together, shaping the digital workforce.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
87% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2025
$400m
LATE VC
Oct 2024
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $728m
Company benefits
- 100% Company Paid Disability, Life, Health, Dental & Vision Insurance (for AR employees)
- Employer Matched Retirement Plan
- Five Weeks of Paid Time Off Annually
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Relocation Assistance (for certain roles)
- Stock Options (for certain roles)
- A culture that encourages flexible work schedules
- A culture that embraces individuality and authenticity
Company HQ
Southeast Mill Creek, Salem, OR
Leadership
Peggy Johnson
(CEO)Joined Agility Robotics in 2024 as CEO. Prior to this, they were the CEO of Magic Leap. They also spent 6 years at Microsoft as an Executive Vice President of Business Development and 25 years at Qualcomm as an Executive Vice President of Global Market Development.
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