Rhoda AI
Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer
$175K–$250K
Mountain View · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in reliability engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Own reliability engineering for intelligent robot hardware, from mission-profile development and accelerated test planning to failure analysis, reliability modeling, and data infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Decompose platform and subsystem requirements into mission profiles and accelerated test plans.
- Maintain FMEA/FMECA analyses, analyze test and field data, and drive design fixes for failure modes.
- Partner with design and test engineers and build reliability data infrastructure and reporting.
What they ask for
- Experience developing mission profiles and using them to define accelerated test plans.
- Working knowledge of acceleration models such as Arrhenius, Coffin-Manson, or inverse power law.
- Hands-on experience with FMEA/FMECA, Weibull analysis, and MTBF/MTTF modeling.
- Experience with electromechanical systems in a product under active development.
Nice to have
- Experience in automotive, EV, robotics, semiconductor, or consumer electronics reliability engineering.
- Experience scripting reliability analysis and reporting tools using Python or similar.
Pay
$175K – $250K (base salary)
Tools
HALT/HASS, Arrhenius, Coffin-Manson, inverse power law, FMEA/FMECA, Weibull analysis, MTBF/MTTF, Python
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