Lumotive
Member of Technical Staff, Hardware Reliability Engineer
$100K–$120K
Redmond, Washington · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, optical engineering, physics, or a related technical field; Master’s degree preferred.
About the job
Develops and owns reliability testing, risk assessment, failure analysis, and manufacturing quality processes for lidar modules and systems throughout product development and qualification.
What you'll do
- Plan and execute reliability tests; analyze results, identify failure mechanisms, and write assessment reports.
- Own reliability requirements, risk assessments, FMEAs, and mitigation actions; provide reliability, quality, and manufacturability input in design reviews.
- Manage prototype and NPI manufacturing quality, perform failure analysis, and drive nonconformance resolution and CAPA/8D to closure.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, optical engineering, physics, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of hands-on hardware reliability engineering experience for complex electronic or optoelectronic hardware at module or system level.
- Hands-on experience planning and executing hardware reliability tests, and experience writing failure-analysis reports and driving CAPA/8D to closure.
- Experience with FMEAs, reliability risk assessments, reliability and quality specifications, manufacturing quality processes, and statistical reliability analysis.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree.
- Experience with lidar, optical sensing, or photonics hardware development.
Pay
USD 100,000–120,000 per-year-salary (base salary)
Tools
JEDEC JESD22, ISO 16750, IEC 60068, AEC-Q102/Q104, HALT, MTBF/FIT
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