Atoms
Senior Hardware Reliability & Test Engineer
$182K–$238K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 12, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years in hardware reliability, environmental test, or design validation; deployed fleet experience in autonomous vehicles, EV, or robotics is also requested.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, materials, or a related engineering field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
About the job
Own hardware qualification, reliability, and environmental testing across Atoms’ robotic platforms, using test and field data to improve designs and verification requirements.
What you'll do
- Define hardware qualification standards, reliability requirements, and design verification plans; plan and execute environmental and accelerated-life testing.
- Analyze field data and failures, lead root-cause and corrective actions, and update test requirements and design changes.
- Manage test equipment and external labs, and set and review supplier reliability acceptance criteria.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in hardware reliability, environmental test, or design validation for electromechanical and electronic hardware.
- End-to-end ownership of environmental and accelerated-life test programs across multiple products or programs.
- Experience defining and driving adoption of reliability or qualification standards across teams.
- Proficiency in DFMEA, fault tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, reliability growth, and Weibull analysis.
Nice to have
- Deployed fleet experience in autonomous vehicles, EV, or robotics.
- Experience deriving test profiles from measured field data, including instrumentation, data acquisition, and post-processing.
Pay
$182,000 - $238,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
HALT, DFMEA, fault tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, reliability growth, Weibull analysis
AI focus
The role supports testing and reliability of Atoms’ Physical AI robotic platforms; no specific AI development work is described.
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