Hardware Reliability Engineer
Zipline , South San Francisco, California +1
What you will do
- Own the reliability strategy for mission-critical mechanical subsystems or entire systems, applying Design-for-Reliability (DfR) and Physics-of-Failure (PoF) principles.
- Translate system reliability targets into design-level requirements, verification plans, and objective pass/fail criteria.
- Lead DFMEA efforts with cross-functional teams to identify early risks and drive mitigation.
- Develop Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) and environmental test campaigns to validate long-term hardware performance.
- Author test plans and procedures with clear, data-driven pass/fail criteria.
- Lead failure analysis and structured root cause investigations, from component to system-level.
- Lead failure analysis and structured root-cause investigations, translating findings into design, manufacturing, or operational actions.
- Sign off on test verification results and assess hardware readiness for flight from a reliability standpoint.