Reliability Engineer, Dexterity
$145-190k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Robotics for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain
Be an early applicant
Robotics for logistics, warehouses, and supply chain
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$145-190k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
Dexterity's mission is to help people thrive and grow by freeing them to do work that humans do best, by transforming the world to make work more purposeful.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in STEM with at least 3 years of hands-on reliability engineering tools, methods, and processes
- Understanding of Design for Reliability principles and Physics-of-Failure concepts to invent accelerated tests to identify and mitigate risks and validate design reliability during product development
- Hands-on experience with Reliasoft, Weibull++, JMP
- Coding or scripting capabilities for test automation and data collection purposes
- Experience with Reliability Growth Models and FMECA for verification and validation testing will be highly preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a strong attention to detail
- Ability to handle multiple projects at once including running activities remotely at supplier sites overseas
- Ability to complete tests and resolve problems in an unattended manner
What the job involves
- We are seeking a driven, versatile hands-on Reliability Engineer to help in the development and own execution of reliability test plans as well as related testing infrastructure to enable reliability growth and robust product validation for our state-of-the-art robotic systems, across a broad range of customer use cases and mission profiles
- Manage supplier reliability and product validation testing of OEMs components
- Manage test and burn-in programs at CMs on modules and systems
- Develop and maintain validation test fixtures for components and sub-systems analysis both in-house and at 3rd party labs
- Leverage lab, test stands, sensors, instrumentation, and personnel for reliability validation testing
- Creating scripts to automate reliability test setup, data acquisition, and analysis
- Develop and own the test hardware and software systems required to execute performance and reliability validation within fast development schedules efficently
- Analyze data, calculate statistics, and carefully document test results to support product development, reliability growth, and regulatory certification submissions and audits as needed
- Perform failure analysis to assist in identifying the root cause and help develop process/design mitigations by collaborating with engineering teams to rapidly implement corrective actions and resume test programs
- Collaborate with external labs to dene, execute, and troubleshoot environmental and other reliability tests
- Perform reliability modeling, analysis, and predictions - Hands-on experience with Reliasoft, Weibull++, JMP
- Develop reliability test fixture development, procurement, qualification, and execution reliability testing
- Publish Reliability Growth metrics and other periodic updates
- Act as a primary liaison between Reliability hardware engineering and other departments fostering effective communication and problem-solving thinking
- Work with overseas suppliers and partners to execute comprehensive test strategies beginning in early prototyping stages through volume production, enabling the earliest possible discovery of failure modes for electro-mechanical autonomous systems
Our take
Dexterity emerged from stealth at an opportune, albeit tough, time in 2020, just as an accelerating labour crunch drove major demand for automated solutions in factories and warehouses. The company managed a major fundraise and immediately moved on to bigger and better things: expanding into the Japanese market, partnering with supply chain automation leader Dematic and achieving unicorn status with a greater than $1 billion valuation.
Unlike other companies which are fixated on developing increasingly sophisticated, more human-like robots, Dexterity’s takes a comparatively simple hardware approach. Its machines take care of highly repetitive tasks, while its SaaS platform shares everything it learns with each robot, amplifying intelligence across the fleet. Rather than seeking to replace human workforces it aims to augment them, freeing skilled workers for more complex tasks.
Considering that the worldwide labour shortage is heavily impacting the industrial sector, Dexterity is in a promising position to continue its upward trajectory over the next few years.. Indeed its recent partnerships with Sumitomo to supply 1,500 Dexterity robots in their warehouses and with FedEx for autonomous trailer loading are encouraging signs of things to come for the company.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2021
$140m
SERIES B
Jul 2020
$56.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $196.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible and generous vacation and holidays
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits for you and your family
- Retirement plan (subject to country of employment)
- Wellbeing and fitness offerings
- Insurance programs
- Discounts and perks
- Meals and snacks at our sites
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Samir Menon
(CEO)Former Software Design Engineer at Microsoft India R&D, former Research Assistant at Simon Fraser University. Before founding Dexterity they spent 10 years at Stanford University, gaining a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) & Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science.
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