Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Staff Sustaining Reliability Engineer
$186K–$256K
Palo Alto, California · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5–10 years of industry experience in a reliability engineering role; automotive electronics or embedded systems preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline; advanced degree a plus.
About the job
Owns ECU reliability from mass production through customer use by developing reliability testing, data pipelines, predictive models, and tools for failure detection and analysis.
What you'll do
- Plan and implement reliability testing, assess manufacturing changes, and lead escalation and root-cause analysis for failures.
- Build data pipelines, reliability models, and dashboards to identify fleet risk, predict ECU failures, and support decisions.
- Coordinate with engineering and quality teams and use AI tools to accelerate diagnosis and connect field issues to NPI reliability teams.
What they ask for
- 5–10 years of industry experience in reliability engineering.
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Hands-on electronics reliability experience, including failure analysis, reliability statistics, and root-cause analysis.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience in big-data platforms and dashboard development.
Nice to have
- Automotive electronics or embedded systems experience.
- Advanced degree.
Pay
$186,000 – $255,750 USD base salary
Tools
Databricks, Python, SQL, HEX, Spark, Tableau, Power BI, Google Agent
AI focus
Integrate or prompt AI/LLM tools to accelerate ECU fault diagnosis, root-cause analysis workflows, and reliability requirement generation.
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