Senior Reliability Test Engineer, Astranis

• The ideal candidate is self-driven and has designed reliability test campaigns from the ground up
• B.S. in Mechanical, Electrical, Physics, Materials Science, or an equivalent technical discipline
• 5+ years in reliability, test, or design engineering on high-reliability hardware or 3+ years with an M.S
• Hands-on testing experience with mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical systems, and with a wide range of sensors, actuators, instrumentation, and DAQ devices
• Experience standing up reliability engineering frameworks for a product or program, covering detailed reliability analysis, development testing, production testing, and field data analysis,
• Experience generating qualification test requirements and executing tests that proactively characterize product behavior and iteratively improve designs and reliability estimates
• Domain depth in one or more of: EEE piece parts, avionics, PCBA reliability, battery systems, EV powertrain or HV devices, thermal systems, actuators, or solar cells
• Experience owning reliability infrastructure: test labs and chambers, failure analysis equipment, metrology and instrumentation, automatic testing equipment and fixtures
• Proven track record of driving systemic improvements and shaping engineering strategy
• Expertise in reliability analysis: FMEA/FMECA, FTA, predictive modeling, and Weibull analysis
• Failure investigation experience with a proven record of solving problems and preventing recurrence
• Design review experience (PDR, CDR, MRR) and confidence presenting to every level of leadership
• Strong technical writing: test plans, reports, requirements, standards, and specifications
• Working proficiency in Python, C++, or your coding language of choice

Desirable

• As a Senior Reliability Test Engineer you work at the intersection of every engineering discipline to ensure our hardware meets the highest bar for quality and reliability
• You own reliability for complex electromechanical and electronic hardware from concept through high-rate production and on-orbit operations
• You set the targets, build the analyses and test frameworks that prove them, own the labs and tooling that generate the evidence, and lead the investigations when hardware fails
• Develop and execute qualification and validation test plans: environmental, accelerated life, shock, vibration, thermal cycling, HALT, and HASS
• Design, build, and automate test equipment, fixturing, and instrumentation end to end in Python, maximizing throughput against rapid design cycles
• Establish reliability targets across PCBAs, power electronics, avionics, actuators, batteries, high-speed digital and RF systems, and develop the unit-level mission profiles that every prediction and test profile derives from
• Review block diagrams, interface control documents, and schematics and guide teams on design for reliability before designs lock
• Lead DFMEA and Fault Tree Analysis with cross-functional teams, and convert the output into design verification plans and implemented design changes
• Build and maintain reliability models as living artifacts. Create physics-of-failure predictions, mission risk quantification, and Weibull analysis on qualification, production, and field data
• Serve as the escalation point for reliability risks: triage severity, then lead containment and root-cause investigation of high-impact failures from validation, production, and on-orbit anomalies
• Coordinate failure analysis and destructive physics analysis using: electrical characterization, microscopy, thermal imaging, X-ray, CT, cross-sectioning, and SEM-EDS
• Perform analyses on field telemetry, identify performance and degradation trends, update mission profiles, and influence upstream teams to prioritize work that prevents reliability failures
• Define entry and exit criteria for program gates and mentor engineers to raise reliability capability across the company