09 - Senior Lead Engineer, Design Quality

Summary

The Staff Reliability Engineer, works in cross functional teams with designers, customers and manufacturing engineering and project leaders to ensure products designed can meet reliability specifications. Define the reliability testing strategy, reliability test plan and conduct tests. Complete a stress based MTBF analysis of products, thus providing initial reliability predictions.

Detailed Description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

• Lead reliability analysis and work with the design teams to ensure the products designed can meet reliability specification.
• Work with the design team and customers to understand and define reliability requirements of products.
• Conduct design review and close loops with the design team to fix design issues.
• Define the reliability testing strategy, reliability test plan and conduct test.
• Complete a stress based MTBF analysis of the product, thus providing initial reliability predictions.
• Coordinate third-party performance and regulatory testing.
• Train relevant manufacturing partner personnel to conduct the test.
• Perform failure analysis and generate failure reports.
• Design guidelines recommendations based on run to failure testing and stress vs. strength analysis
• Actively collaborate with the engineering team and seek opportunities to develop new/improve existing durability test methodology to enhance product development efficiency.
• Apply problem-solving and analytical skills to conduct failure analysis
• Lead FMEA for chassis- and rack-level (L10/L11) products, coordinating inputs from design teams and working with other stakeholders in the organization to complete tasks per customer requirements.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Must demonstrate experience with reliability testing such as HALT, HASS, ALT, and reliability demonstration/acceptance test plans. Demonstrate experience with environmental tests such as thermal cycling, power cycling, vibration, shock, drop, storage, acoustic, and RVI testing.
• Demonstrated experience with Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) prediction calculation and testing, MTTR, De-rating, availability, and reliability-centered maintenance calculation.
• Demonstrated experience with reliability software for prediction, RBD, Weibull, ALT, and maintainability (e.g., Reliasoft, Isograph, Windchill Risk and Reliability, or JMP).
• Demonstrate experience in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, mechanical design, electrical, and electronics.
• Reliability expertise in reliability analysis, reliability prediction methods and accelerated life testing and design analysis for Electronic products (Communication, Enterprise products).
• Demonstrated experience with FMEA, design for reliability (DFR), DFT and design for manufacturability (DFM) concepts, particularly as they relate to process, property and complex manufacturing systems.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrate customer-facing and supplier-facing experience.
• Project management and data analysis skills.
• Able to work independently, self-motivated and well-organized.
• Candidate must have demonstrated home internet access due to hybrid nature of role

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, electronic or mechanical engineering or similar.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.