Amperesand
Hardware Reliability Engineer
$130K–$170K
Sunnyvale, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Apr 21, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Reliability Engineering.
About the job
Supports end-to-end reliability of Amperesand’s solid-state transformer platform through testing, failure analysis, lifetime modeling, and collaboration with design and manufacturing teams.
What you'll do
- Help plan and run reliability tests, including thermal mapping and accelerated life testing, and analyze test data for failure trends.
- Participate in DFMEA, conduct initial root-cause investigations, and help build reliability block diagrams and physics-of-failure models.
- Document test results and coordinate with Design and Manufacturing to communicate findings and meet reliability targets.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Reliability Engineering.
- Strong understanding of hardware reliability or circuit analysis.
- Basic familiarity with reliability statistics, including Weibull distribution and MTBF.
- Comfortable in a high-voltage lab and experienced with basic diagnostic tools such as oscilloscopes and multimeters.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or R for data processing and automation.
- Interest in ReliaSoft (Weibull++, ALTA) or Ansys Sherlock.
Pay
$130,000 — $170,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Weibull distribution, MTBF, Oscilloscopes, Multimeters, ReliaSoft, Weibull++, ALTA, Ansys Sherlock
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