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Failure Analysis Engineer, Electromechanical Hardware

Meta· Hardware
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Redmond, WA$144k - $204kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Role owning failure analysis for electromechanical hardware across design-verification, qualification, and production testing. Works with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and quality teams to close defects from symptom to corrective action, covering actuators, drive systems, precision mechanisms, sensors, and related electronics/firmware.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end FA for units failing fixture, DVE, and qualification testing: intake, symptom capture, hypothesis-driven teardown, root cause, disposition, and corrective-action follow-through
  • Build and maintain a failure-mode taxonomy for the hardware in scope and classify incoming failures against it, so root causes transfer between units instead of being re-derived every time
  • Diagnose by signature, not by guesswork — isolate the failing domain (mechanical, electrical, firmware, thermal, process) using periodicity, load-vs-position behavior, electrical waveforms, calibration and configuration data, and environmental correlation
  • Write and maintain analysis tooling (Python) that parses test-station reports and time-series logs to classify failure modes automatically at fleet/population scale
  • Run fleet-level correlation studies to accept or refute candidate root causes, and document refuted leads as clearly as confirmed ones
  • Drive nonconformance (NC) and CAPA workflows: file, triage, and close NCs; present findings at CCB / design review; feed pass-fail criteria improvements back into the test stations
  • Partner with design ME/EE/FW on containment and permanent fixes, and with suppliers on incoming quality and process escapes
  • Perform and interpret physical FA: precision teardown, dimensional/metrology inspection, wear and fracture surface inspection, optical/microscopy, and — where available — CT, SEM/EDX, and cross-sectioning

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on failure analysis, reliability, or test engineering on electromechanical hardware (motors and drives, gearboxes, precision mechanisms, consumer devices, instrumentation, or similar)
  • Demonstrated root-cause methodology: 5-Why, fishbone, fault-tree, DOE, or equivalent, applied to real hardware failures you can talk through in detail
  • Hands-on lab competence: DMM, oscilloscope, power supplies, load/test fixtures, DAQ
  • Experience writing technical FA reports that enable design engineers to act on findings without additional clarification — FA reports that a design engineer can act on without a meeting

Skills

Required:Failure analysisRoot cause analysis methodologies
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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