Senior Reliability Engineer supporting the development of new life science technology within an R&D group. Provides hands-on reliability expertise for complex instruments, including lab testing, field failure support, and cost reduction/sustaining activities. Location: Milpitas, CA (Onsite 5 days/week). Temp-to-perm possibility.
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- Lead and monitor multiple reliability projects
- Provide reliability risk assessments to cross-functional teams and leadership
- Create and implement test plans to mitigate risks in new product designs
- Facilitate multidisciplinary FMEA discussions to evaluate technical risk
- Record, organize, and analyze large sets of detailed test data
- Troubleshoot instrument failures and direct root cause investigations
- Guide corrective action identification, implementation, and validation
- Provide engineering input for new designs to ensure reliable, robust products
- Support lab testing (30%), field failure review/solutions (40%), and cost-reduction/sustaining work (30%)
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- 5-10 years overall
- Minimum 5 years of reliability engineering experience (or equivalent experimental/statistical testing experience); 2 years may be substituted with an advanced engineering degree
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- Basic statistical analysis for interpreting test data
- Reliability analysis and reliability engineering fundamentals (life predictions, root cause analysis, environmental/accelerated testing)
- Strong communication skills
- Nice to have: DFMEA, electronics hardware design, fluidics, optics, test automation (LabView, Arduino)
- Nice to have: Six Sigma tools, design of experiments, data tools (Minitab, MATLAB, JMP, R)