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Reliability Design Engineer - Motors, Mechanisms and Electronics

Matic Robots· Hardware
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Menlo Park, CAFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Reliability Design Engineer responsible for building test infrastructure to predict and prevent failures in the lab, ensuring robust, scalable test systems that validate every feature before shipping the robot.

Responsibilities

  • Design, fabricate, and iterate electromechanical test rigs, fixtures, and automated setups that reproduce field failure modes and stress designs to failure
  • Build accelerated life, fatigue, vibration and shock, and temperature and humidity tests across motors, mechanisms, and electronics
  • Wire up and integrate actuators, motor drivers, sensors, and data acquisition to bring test setups to life and capture clean failure data
  • Write scripts to automate test execution and data logging for reliable, repeatable tests at volume
  • Partner with reliability engineers to translate physics of failure and field insight into representative test methods
  • Support root cause failure analysis by designing apparatus and experiments that isolate failure mechanisms
  • Create and maintain CAD models, drawings, and documentation for all test equipment
  • Scale and maintain the reliability lab as fleet, hardware versions, and test volume grow
  • Work cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, software, quality, production, and supply chain teams to close the loop from potential failure to design fix

Qualifications

  • Technical degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related hardware discipline
  • 2+ years of hardware design engineering experience, ideally on a physical product that has shipped in volume
  • Proficiency in CAD
  • Hands-on comfort across electromechanical systems: actuators, motor control, sensors, and basic circuit work, data acquisition, and instrumentation
  • Working proficiency with a scripting language such as Python for test automation and data handling
  • Exposure to reliability and test concepts such as accelerated testing, fatigue, life testing, DOE, or FMEA is a plus
  • Comfort with a fast-paced, startup atmosphere where you take ownership of ambiguous problems
  • High level of maturity, ownership, and pride in your work

Skills

Required:CADPythonElectromechanical systemsTest automation

Benefits

  • medical, dental and vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • equity through the company’s discretionary equity program
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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