Sabi
Lead Reliability Engineer
$300K–$400K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted May 7, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; must include at least one shipped product owned from concept through field.
About the job
Lead reliability engineering for a wearable consumer-electronics product, owning qualification, certification, and field quality from development through launch and beyond.
What you'll do
- Own reliability strategy, test plans, qualification protocols, accelerated life testing, and certifications across subsystems and regions.
- Lead design-for-reliability, qualification testing, external lab and contract manufacturer coordination, and release gates.
- Manage post-launch field quality, including returns analysis, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions; build the reliability function.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of consumer hardware reliability engineering, including ownership of at least one shipped product from concept through field.
- Working knowledge of consumer-electronics qualification standards and regional certifications, including IEC 60068, IEC 61000, JEDEC, IPC, FCC Part 15, CE/RED, and IC RSS.
- Experience designing accelerated life tests and applying statistical reliability methods, including Weibull analysis, acceleration models, and sample-size design.
- Demonstrated design-for-reliability leadership with EE, ME, and FW teams, including FMEA and design reviews; experience owning external labs, certification projects, and CM-side reliability gates.
Nice to have
- Wearables, hearables, mobile devices, or other body-worn consumer electronics.
- Battery reliability, biocompatibility and skin-contact testing, field telemetry and post-launch quality analytics, or HALT/HASS test design and execution.
Pay
$300K – $400K (base salary)
Tools
IEC 60068, IEC 61000, JEDEC, IPC, FCC Part 15, CE/RED, IC RSS, ISO 10993
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