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Robotics Reliability Engineer - Motors, Mechanisms and Electronics

Matic Robots· Hardware
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Menlo Park, CA$130k - $200kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Reliability engineering role focusing on motors, mechanisms, and electronics across design-for-reliability (pre-launch) and field data post-launch to drive test plans, failure analysis, and design improvements for home robotics products.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with design engineers to understand the physics of failure and design accelerated test methods that represent real field behavior
  • Run DFMEA and set reliability targets early, predicting failure modes before launch and specifying the tests, sample sizes, durations, and acceleration factors needed to prove the design out
  • Collaborate with our reliability design engineers to design and build test setups for different loading scenarios such as fatigue, vibration and shock, and temperature and humidity
  • Monitor every way our robots fail in the field, across support tickets, social media, returns, and telemetry, and tear down returned units to find failures the customer never reported
  • Own and track the full catalog of field and potential failure modes across the fleet, and drive each one to resolution through either testing or a design change
  • Build and own the analytics on motor and sensor telemetry that surface where features and parts are failing at scale
  • Perform root cause failure analysis at every stage, from early bench testing through field returns
  • Prepare concise and detailed test plans, drive test execution, analyze test reports, and present results to all relevant stakeholders
  • Influence design direction and prioritization by flagging which failure modes are under-prioritized and where design bandwidth should go
  • Strengthen DFR practices while acting in a cross-disciplinary fashion spanning mechanical, electrical, and software engineering

Qualifications

  • Technical degree in mechanical engineering, materials science, or equivalent, with 2-5 years of experience in a reliability engineering position. An advanced degree in reliability, materials science, or a related field is a strong plus
  • Track record of defining reliability targets and test plans for consumer electronic products
  • Deep comfort with reliability statistics: life data analysis, Weibull++ or equivalent, and a range of accelerated test models
  • Solid understanding of Design of Experiments (DOE), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA and DFMEA), and physics of failure
  • Experience specifying test setups for reliability testing and partnering with others to build them
  • Comfort analyzing messy, multi-source field data such as support tickets, returns, and telemetry, and turning it into clear engineering priorities
  • Comfort with fast-paced, startup atmosphere — you don’t shy away from the hard work
  • High level of maturity, ownership, and pride in your work

Skills

Required:DFMEAFMEA/DFMEADOEWeibull analysis

Benefits

  • comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage
  • access to a 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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