Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer
Rhoda AI, Mountain View
The role
Reliability starts upstream of the test bench. In this role, you decompose platform and subsystem requirements into mission profiles — the duty cycles, load spectra, and environmental exposures Robot will actually see over its life in industrial workspaces — and use them to define how test campaigns should be accelerated, not just to interpret data once it exists. Those mission profiles set the acceleration factors, sample sizes, and pass/fail criteria for the HALT/HASS, thermal cycling, vibration, and fatigue campaigns run in partnership with the test engineers.
We operate as T-shaped engineers. You must be a strong generalist across electromechanical systems — actuators, motors, power electronics, structures — but your superpower for this role is translating ambiguous, early-stage requirements into mission profiles and accelerated test plans the rest of the org can design and test against.