Role: Reliability Engineer II
Type: Full-Time Contract (1 year)
Compensation: Starting at $51 per hour, commensurate with experience
Location: Onsite – Central Orange County
Position Description:
The Reliability Engineer II will execute reliability engineering activities across the product lifecycle for electrophysiology (EP) catheters, accessories, and capital equipment, from development through verification, design transfer, commercialization, and post-market. Working with senior and staff reliability engineers, you’ll own reliability tests and analyses for assigned products, investigate failures, and turn data into well-supported design and process improvements.
This isn’t just a test-execution role. You’ll connect product risks and physical failure mechanisms to measurable requirements and statistically sound evidence, and partner with R&D, Systems Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, and Post-Market teams to drive improvements.
Responsibilities:
- Execute elements of Reliability Program Plans for EP catheters, accessories, and capital equipment, including reliability requirements, test plans, and reports.
- Design and run reliability tests independently, including characterization, test-to-failure, accelerated life testing, degradation, and accelerated aging studies.
- Perform reliability and statistical analyses, including Weibull analysis with censored data, B-life estimates, confidence bounds, sample-size justification, and DOE.
- Contribute to and help facilitate FMEA/FMECA, fault tree analyses, and design reviews, applying design-for-reliability principles such as design margins and derating.
- Investigate failures through FRACAS: gather lab, manufacturing, supplier, complaint, and field data, perform root cause analysis, and verify corrective actions.
- Evaluate catheter failure mechanisms such as articulation, torque, flex, fatigue, bonds, insulation, sterilization, aging, and simulated use.
- Support capital equipment reliability assessments across electronics, PCB assemblies, power supplies, sensors, pumps, motors, and cables, including MTBF and reliability prediction.
- Author test protocols, reports, and technical documentation in compliance with design controls and quality system requirements.
- Present test results, risks, and recommendations to engineering teams; support and train associate engineers and technicians.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, Systems, Reliability, Materials, Mechatronics, Aerospace, or a related engineering discipline.
- 2–4 years of experience in reliability, test, quality, or product development engineering in a regulated or safety-critical industry (medical device, aerospace, automotive, defense, or similar).
- Hands-on experience planning and executing reliability or life tests and analyzing the results.
- Working knowledge of reliability statistics, including Weibull analysis, confidence intervals, and sample-size determination.
- Experience with FMEA and root cause analysis methods.
- Proficiency with statistical tools such as Minitab or JMP.
- Strong technical writing and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Medical device experience, especially cardiovascular, electrophysiology, catheter-based devices, or electromechanical capital equipment.
- Experience with ReliaSoft (Weibull++, ALTA, BlockSim, RGA, or Lambda Predict) or similar reliability software.
- Exposure to HALT/HASS, accelerated aging, reliability growth, or FRACAS processes.
- Familiarity with design controls, risk management (ISO 14971), and FDA quality system regulations.
- Programming experience in Python, R, or MATLAB.
- Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), Six Sigma certification, or progress toward either.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
RCM is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Pay Transparency:
RCM believes in transparency and fairness in compensation. We are committed to providing our employees with competitive salaries that reflect their skills, experience, and contributions to our organization. As part of our commitment to pay transparency, we want to provide you with as much information as possible about our compensation practices.
About RCM:
RCM is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol RCMT. RCM is a business and technology solutions provider with world-class talent in key market segments. We help design, build, and enable the Industries of Tomorrow, Today. Operating at the intersection of resources, critical infrastructure, and modernization of industries, RCM is a provider of services in Life Sciences, Data & Solutions (IT), Healthcare, Engineering, Aerospace & Defense, and Process & Industrial.
Disclaimer:
This job posting is intended to describe the general nature and the level of the work to be performed. It is not intended to include every job duty and responsibility specific to the position. RCM reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.