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.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, materials, or a related engineering field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
About the job
Sets qualification standards and leads reliability and environmental testing for Atoms’ hardware platforms, using test and field data to improve designs and verification.
What you'll do
- Define qualification standards, reliability requirements, and design verification plans; plan and conduct environmental and accelerated-life testing.
- Analyze field data and failures, lead root-cause and corrective actions, and update design and test requirements.
- Manage test equipment and external labs, and set and review supplier reliability acceptance criteria.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in hardware reliability, environmental testing, 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 a reliability or qualification standard 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.
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 hardware reliability and qualification for Physical AI robots; it does not specify AI development work.
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