Lead Reliability Engineer
Sabi, San Francisco
The role
You will be the founding reliability engineering hire, owning whether our product survives in the field. Our wearable goes onto people's heads for hours a day. It charges over USB-C, lives in pockets and bags, gets sweated on, dropped, and travels through every climate. Your job is to make sure it works, keeps working, and meets every safety, regulatory, and quality bar that consumer electronics require.
You will report to the Head of Hardware, with regular exposure to the CEO and CTO, and partner closely with the EE, FW, audio, camera, and product design leads. Each owns their subsystem; you own the qualification, certification, and field-quality strategy across all of them. You will also work extensively with external engineering teams at our contract manufacturers, test labs, and certification bodies. The work is outsourced; the accountability is yours
What you will do
- Own the reliability strategy end-to-end: