Reliability Engineer IV - Contract

Autonomous Solutions•Fort Worth, TX

7d•Onsite

About The Position

ASI is expanding its teams to support its current ramp-up across development work, customer projects, and product deployments. This is a full-time W-2 contract position. The selected candidate will interview with ASI and work as an integrated member of the ASI team. W-2 employment, payroll, and benefits will be administered through one of ASI's staffing partners. Development phases of this nature typically span up to project completion (typically 2-4 years), though scope and duration are driven by business needs. JOB SUMMARY The Reliability Engineer IV develops and leads reliability activities that improve the durability, availability, maintainability, and operational performance of ASI's autonomous dozer platforms. This role evaluates mechanical, electrical, software, and integrated vehicle systems to identify reliability risks, investigate failures, define validation strategies, and ensure corrective actions are supported by measurable data. As a Level IV engineer within ASI's five-level engineering structure, this position independently leads complex reliability workstreams and influences design and validation decisions across the Dozer Team. The role serves as a technical resource for reliability engineering methods, supports difficult cross-functional failure investigations, and provides guidance to less-experienced engineers. Broader company-wide reliability strategy and final technical authority remain aligned with engineering leadership and Level V technical experts.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field
Typically eight or more years of experience in reliability engineering, validation, product assurance, durability testing, failure analysis, or related engineering work
Demonstrated experience independently leading complex reliability analyses and failure investigations
Strong experience with FMEA, root cause analysis, Fault Tree Analysis, corrective-action processes, and reliability risk assessment
Experience developing reliability validation plans for complex electromechanical or hardware-software integrated systems
Experience with environmental, durability, accelerated-life, or qualification testing
Ability to evaluate mechanical, electrical, software, and system-level failure interactions
Experience analyzing test, field, maintenance, warranty, or operational data to identify trends and reliability risks
Working knowledge of reliability statistics, life-data analysis, Weibull analysis, probability distributions, and confidence limits
Experience establishing measurable reliability requirements, test criteria, and technical acceptance thresholds
Ability to interpret engineering drawings, electrical schematics, test results, system logs, and technical documentation
Experience using data-analysis tools such as Python, MATLAB, Minitab, JMP, Excel, or comparable platforms
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical investigations and drive issues to resolution
Strong technical writing, documentation, presentation, and communication skills
Ability to provide technical guidance without direct supervisory responsibility
Ability to work effectively with engineering, test, operations, supplier, and customer-facing teams

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Reliability Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline
Certified Reliability Engineer or similar professional certification
Experience supporting autonomous vehicles, construction equipment, dozers, heavy machinery, robotics, or off-road platforms
Knowledge of dozer operations, grading, cut-and-fill, ripping, earthmoving, and construction-site workflows
Experience with Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety analysis
Experience with FMECA, reliability block diagrams, maintainability analysis, or availability modeling
Experience with reliability growth methods, including test-analyze-fix-test processes
Familiarity with physics-of-failure methods and accelerated-life test development
Experience with highly accelerated life testing, highly accelerated stress screening, or design-of-experiments methods
Experience evaluating vibration, shock, temperature, humidity, dust, water, corrosion, contamination, and pressure-wash exposure
Familiarity with functional safety, safety-critical systems, or risk-based verification and validation practices
Experience with vehicle communication networks, embedded systems, sensors, autonomous software, or vehicle-control systems
Experience supporting prototype-to-production transitions and field reliability improvement programs
Experience performing supplier reliability assessments and component qualification activities
Familiarity with JAMA, Jira, PLM systems, FRACAS tools, or similar requirements and issue-management platforms

Responsibilities

Lead reliability planning and analysis for autonomous dozer systems, subsystems, and components
Develop reliability requirements, performance targets, validation criteria, and acceptance thresholds for assigned programs
Lead Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, including DFMEA, PFMEA, and system-level FMEA activities
Perform or support Fault Tree Analysis, reliability block diagrams, risk assessments, and other structured reliability analyses
Identify reliability risks across mechanical, electrical, software, sensor, computing, communication, and vehicle-control systems
Develop reliability test strategies for autonomous dozers operating in construction, mining, earthmoving, and other demanding environments
Define and coordinate environmental, durability, accelerated-life, and system-level validation testing
Support testing involving vibration and shock, temperature cycling, humidity, water ingress, pressure washing, salt exposure, dust, contamination, and mechanical loading
Lead complex failure investigations using root cause analysis, fault isolation, data review, physical inspection, and structured problem-solving methods
Coordinate corrective and preventive actions with design, software, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, supplier, and test teams
Verify that corrective actions address root causes and reduce the likelihood of recurrence
Analyze laboratory, vehicle, field, warranty, maintenance, and operational data to identify failure trends and emerging reliability risks
Develop reliability metrics, dashboards, reports, and technical summaries that communicate product health and program risk
Evaluate component and subsystem reliability using statistical methods, life-data analysis, degradation analysis, and trend monitoring
Support development of reliability predictions, failure-rate estimates, and availability or maintainability assessments
Evaluate autonomous dozer designs for durability, serviceability, maintainability, fault tolerance, and environmental robustness
Partner with systems engineers to ensure reliability requirements are traceable to system architecture, test plans, and validation evidence
Collaborate with test engineers and field teams to develop realistic duty cycles and operating profiles for dozer validation
Participate in design reviews and provide reliability-focused recommendations before design release or field deployment
Support supplier evaluations, component qualification, and resolution of supplier-related reliability concerns
Lead investigations involving intermittent, system-level, or difficult-to-reproduce failures
Support reliability growth planning and track progress against defined reliability objectives
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers involved in reliability analysis, testing, and failure investigations
Improve reliability engineering processes, templates, tools, data practices, and documentation standards
Communicate technical risks, findings, corrective actions, and recommendations to engineering teams, program leadership, and stakeholders
Support customer deployments, field testing, and on-site investigations as required