General Matter
Reliability Engineer
$140K–$200K
Los Angeles, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, California, United States - Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Reliability, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Own hardware reliability by designing and analyzing test campaigns, investigating failures, and feeding findings into product design and reliability practices.
What you'll do
- Design and lead accelerated-life, life-leader, and component reliability test campaigns; develop plans, requirements, and test methods.
- Analyze test and field data, lead root-cause investigations, and develop reliability models and artifacts.
- Partner with test, design, manufacturing, and quality teams to improve reliability and report hardware maturity and risk.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Reliability, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience designing and executing reliability test campaigns.
- Applied reliability statistics, including Weibull analysis, sample-size determination, DOE, confidence intervals, and acceleration modeling.
- Experience with FMEA/FMECA and reliability modeling methods.
Nice to have
- Experience building a reliability program or test capability from the ground up; familiarity with physics-of-failure methods and accelerated stress modeling.
- Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) or similar certification; advanced degrees.
Pay
USD $140,000-$200,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
ReliaSoft Weibull++/ALTA, Minitab, JMP, Python, R
AI focus
The role supports hardware used to produce nuclear fuel for power systems serving AI, but no direct AI work is stated.
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