Bedrock Robotics
Reliability Engineer, Hardware
San Francisco, CA · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 26, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in hardware reliability engineering for vehicles, heavy machinery, robotics, automotive, aerospace, or industrial equipment.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Physics, Mechatronics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Own hardware reliability for autonomous construction machines, from setting reliability goals and leading analysis and testing to resolving field failures and improving designs.
What you'll do
- Define reliability strategy, requirements, budgets, models, and test programs for hardware subsystems.
- Lead DFMEA, FTA, reliability testing, and field-failure investigations, driving corrective actions into design and processes.
- Partner across engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and field teams to improve reliability and maintain reliability documentation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Deep, hands-on expertise leading DFMEA and FTA, reliability prediction/modeling, accelerated and life testing, and structured root-cause analysis / FRACAS.
- Strong working knowledge of reliability and statistical tools.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with PDM/PLM systems.
Tools
ReliaSoft Weibull++/BlockSim, Windchill Quality/Relex, Minitab, Python, R
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