Senior Mechanical 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, such as the Dropbox or delivery pod, applying Design-for-Reliability (DfR) and Physics-of-Failure (PoF) principles.
- Define system reliability targets, life requirements, and release criteria based on safety, availability, unit economics, operational burden, and the maturity of the program. Translate these targets into design-level requirements, verification plans, and objective pass/fail criteria.
- Lead system- and component-level FMEAs to identify the highest-value reliability risks, influence architecture and design decisions, and prioritize where deeper analysis or testing is needed.
- Develop Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) and environmental test campaigns that efficiently demonstrate long-term performance, including determining how to revalidate systems as designs evolve.