Amazon
Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer, Reliability Engineering
$137K–$186K
Bellevue, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years; preferred alternative: 5+ years with a master's degree or foreign equivalent.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or a related field. Preferred: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in those fields.
About the job
Leads reliability engineering, testing, validation, and failure-risk mitigation for new and emerging robotic devices.
What you'll do
- Identify and validate electrical and mechanical product risks, working with design teams to mitigate them.
- Define reliability test methods and coverage, and conduct hands-on experiments.
- Predict failure mechanisms for products in development and in the field.
What they ask for
- Experience in component selection and component reliability.
- Experience in robotics, including reliability of motors, sensors, and high-power electronics.
- Experience with hardware reliability testing, data analytics, and statistical analysis, including DFMEA and reliability analysis.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or a related field; 7+ years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or a related field and 5+ years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
- Experience with failure analysis techniques, such as electrical debug, cross sectioning, dye and pry, and microscope.
Pay
137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
DFMEA, reliability modeling, lifetime analysis, acceleration factor studies, reliability allocation, vibration & shock testing, ESD testing, thermal stress testing
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