Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer

Nuro • CA

95d • $125,400 - $188,100

About The Position

We're seeking a Reliability Engineer to join our hardware team. In this role, you'll be responsible for ensuring the safety, reliability, and durability of mission-critical hardware systems for autonomous vehicles. This position combines reliability engineering with hands-on testing and failure analysis. As a key member of the team, you'll design and execute module-level reliability test plans while providing clear input and feedback to our design teams. You will work cross-functionally to support the design, validation, and production of cutting-edge hardware systems.

Requirements

• Deep background in reliability prediction, FMEA, reliability test development and execution, FRACAS, and failure analysis techniques.
• Good understanding of design of experiments theory and application.
• A basic understanding of physics of failure.
• Great collaborator and communicator. Experience and ability to drive cross-functional teams and communicate clearly.
• Demonstrated an ability to thrive in fast-paced, start-up environments.
• Working knowledge of failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM, CT, X-ray, EDS, FTIR etc.
• Experience in reliability engineering and testing of automotive or mission-critical electronic hardware.
• Deep understanding of automotive environmental, mechanical, and electrical stressors on hardware.
• Familiarity with automotive reliability standards and testing methods (e.g., ISO 26262, AEC-Q100, SAE, IEC, JEDEC).

Nice To Haves

• MS/PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Material Engineering, or similar background.
• 5+ years working experience in robotics, automotive, or similar industry.
• Passion for vehicle safety, automation, and enabling a safer transportation future.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and a commitment to quality and continuous improvement.
• Willingness to travel as needed to test tracks, vehicle integration sites, supplier locations, and manufacturing facilities.
• Experience documenting results for safety, compliance, or regulatory review is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Influence reliability early in the design process by facilitating DFMEAs and participating in design reviews.
• Develop new reliability tests and specs based on field usage conditions.
• Specify reliability risk and validation plans for components and subsystems using a physics of failure approach.
• Run test/validation programs for all custom designed modules.
• Lead FA efforts on relevant reliability test and field failures for root cause identification and CAPA implementation.
• Analyze usage and environmental conditions from the field in order to improve requirement setting and testing methods.
• Utilize reliability statistics to identify reliability trends in the field and provide a clear snapshot of risk.
• Develop and maintain a meaningful set of KPIs for field reliability performance.
• Define and track critical reliability metrics (e.g., FIT rates, MTBF) for systems operating in dynamic roadway environments.
• Recommend enhancements to supplier test processes and negotiate changes to supplier test plans as necessary to address gaps, strengthen validation, and mitigate reliability risks.
• Communicate clearly reliability results & risks to product & management teams.
• Share reliability learning with hardware engineering community & develop best practices to guide future design work.

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity
• Competitive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees