Agility Robotics
Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer
$170K–$221K
Hybrid- Fremont, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid- Fremont, CA
Fremont, California, United States - Experience
- Minimum 5 to 8+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
About the job
Own reliability of humanoid robot drive systems and actuation sub-assemblies by planning and validating tests, analyzing failures, and improving hardware lifetime.
What you'll do
- Implement reliability planning and Design for Reliability methods; set reliability targets and stress acceptance criteria.
- Design and execute accelerated testing and lifetime validation, using statistical and physics-based models to predict service life.
- Lead failure analysis and use field and test data to recommend design improvements.
What they ask for
- 5–8+ years of reliability engineering experience with complex hardware systems.
- Strong understanding of mechatronic systems and demonstrated experience with reliability engineering methods, accelerated-life testing, and physics-of-failure analysis.
- Experience with environmental and durability testing, statistical reliability methods, and fatigue and life-prediction methods.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field, including Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Materials Science, or Reliability Engineering.
Nice to have
- Robotics, autonomous vehicle, aerospace, or other high-reliability industry experience.
- Master’s degree or PhD; proficiency with data-analysis and scripting environments is preferred.
Pay
$170,000 — $221,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
DFMEA, FTA, HALT, HASS, Weibull analysis, ALT/CALT models, Coffin-Manson, Arrhenius
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