Senior Reliability Engineer

AeroVect

. Establish AeroVect's reliability engineering practice, including defining processes, metrics and tooling for tracking and improving fleet reliability from design through field deployment.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeSouth San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $150,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Establish AeroVect's reliability engineering practice, including defining processes, metrics and tooling for tracking and improving fleet reliability from design through field deployment.
Lead failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA) and reliability block diagram (RBD) activities across mechanical, electrical and embedded systems.
Define and track reliability metrics including MTBF, MTTR and field failure rates; build dashboards and reporting structures to give engineering and leadership visibility into fleet health.
Analyze field failure data from our deployed fleet to identify root causes, prioritize corrective actions, and close the loop between field observations and design improvements.
Define and manage external reliability and environmental testing programs, including accelerated life testing, vibration and shock testing, thermal cycling and ingress protection validation, working with third-party test labs to execute.
Partner with hardware engineers during the design phase to conduct design reviews with a reliability lens, provide DFR input, and identify failure risks before they reach production.
Develop and maintain reliability requirements for new hardware programs and vehicle platforms, ensuring traceability from system requirements to component-level specifications.
Support supplier qualification activities by defining reliability acceptance criteria and reviewing vendor test data and qualification reports.
Build and maintain reliability documentation including test plans, analysis reports, reliability growth tracking and lessons-learned databases.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8 years of hands-on reliability engineering experience in a hardware-centric industry such as automotive, aerospace, robotics, industrial equipment or defense.
Deep expertise in reliability analysis methods including FMEA, FTA, and RBD, with direct experience leading these analyses on complex electromechanical systems.
Experience defining and managing environmental and accelerated life testing programs, including writing test plans and interpreting results from third-party labs.
Ability to work across mechanical, electrical and embedded systems domains — understanding failure modes in each and how they interact at the system level.
Comfort working as the sole reliability practitioner at a company, with the ability to prioritize and build a program incrementally rather than inheriting an established one.
Strong data analysis skills and experience working with field failure data to drive engineering decisions.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present technical findings to engineering teams and to non-technical stakeholders including leadership and customers.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

reliability engineeringfailure mode and effects analysis (FMEA)fault tree analysis (FTA)reliability block diagram (RBD)MTBFMTTRenvironmental testingaccelerated life testingdata analysistest plan development

Soft Skills

communication skillsprioritizationcollaborationproblem-solvingpresentation skills