Reliability Engineer, Hardware
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$120k - $190kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Reliability Engineer responsible for hardware reliability across autonomous construction machines, leading DFMEA/FTA, reliability modeling, testing, field failure analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure robust performance in real-world environments.
Responsibilities
- Reliability Program Ownership: Define and own the hardware reliability strategy, requirements, and budgets (reliability/availability targets, MTBF/MTBUR goals, duty cycles, mission profiles) for autonomy upfit hardware across the vehicle platform.
- DFMEA Leadership: Plan and facilitate Design FMEAs across mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical subsystems — identifying failure modes, effects, and causes; scoring severity/occurrence/detection; prioritizing with RPN/Action Priority; and driving design and test actions to closure.
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA): Build and maintain fault trees for safety-critical and availability-critical functions; perform qualitative and quantitative FTA, identify minimal cut sets and single points of failure, and link top-level undesired events to design, redundancy, and verification requirements.
- Reliability Modeling & Prediction: Develop reliability block diagrams, reliability allocations, and predictions; perform Weibull and life-data analysis, reliability growth tracking, and worst-case/derating analysis to forecast field performance and inform design tradeoffs.
- Reliability Testing: Define and execute HALT/HASS, ALT, and environmental/durability test programs (vibration, shock, thermal cycling, dust/water ingress, corrosion); set test-to-failure margins and design ongoing stress screens.
- Field Failure Analysis: Lead Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System; conduct root-cause investigations (8D, 5-Whys, fishbone) and drive corrective/preventive actions into design and process.
- Design for Reliability (DfR): Embed reliability into design and milestone reviews — derating, redundancy, tolerance stack-up, thermal and vibration margin, ingress protection — at NPI stages.
- Supplier & Component Reliability: Qualify components and suppliers, define reliability criteria, review supplier data, manage derating, qualification, and obsolescence risk.
- Reliability Data & Tooling: Build reliability data pipelines and dashboards from warranty/field returns, telemetry, and test data; apply statistical methods to surface trends.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, and field teams to translate reliability findings into design, process, and test changes.
- Documentation & Standards: Maintain DFMEA/FTA records, reliability plans, prediction models, test reports, FRACAS records; develop best-practice reliability processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Physics, Mechatronics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years in hardware reliability engineering for vehicles, heavy machinery, robotics, automotive, aerospace, or industrial equipment.
- Deep expertise in DFMEA and FTA, reliability prediction/modeling, HALT/HASS, ALT, and structured root-cause analysis / FRACAS.
- Strong working knowledge of reliability and statistical tools (ReliaSoft Weibull++/BlockSim, Windchill Quality/Relex, Minitab, Python or R); familiarity with PDM/PLM systems is a plus.
Skills
Required:DFMEAFTAReliability ModelingHALT/HASS & ALTFRACAS
Benefits
- Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer—diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Reasonable Accommodations available in the hiring process.
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Bedrock Robotics
Advanced Autonomy for the Built World
Advanced Autonomy for the Built World
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