Senior Reliability Engineer - Onsite
Millenniumsoft•Milpitas, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
Play a critical role in the development of new life science technology as a reliability engineer in the R&D group. Provide hands-on, analytical, and reliability expertise to support engineering programs associated with the development of complex instruments. Work in a team environment to assess and improve product reliability throughout the design process. Manage reliability projects by implementing tests, analyzing data, assessing reliability risks, and reporting accurate information to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline required.
- Minimum of 5 years of reliability engineering experience or experience performing tests to collect experimental data and performing statistical analyses to interpret results. (2 years may be substituted with advanced degree in engineering or related discipline)
- Knowledge of reliability fundamentals and understanding of reliability analysis (i.e., life predictions, product life modeling, root cause analysis, environmental testing, accelerated testing, etc.).
- Applies technical standards, principles, concepts, and techniques to solve problems.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Willingness to work in BSL2 lab.
- Willingness to prepare blood samples for testing (training will be provided).
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of fluidic, optical, and/or electro-mechanical systems.
- Experience with test automation (LabView, Arduino, etc.).
- Experience utilizing FMEA to guide team discussions and priorities.
- Statistical knowledge, especially related to six sigma tools and methodology, design of experiments, and reliability modelling.
- Experience managing large sets of data using data processing tools such as Minitab, MATLAB, JMP, or R.
Responsibilities
- Lead and monitor multiple reliability projects.
- Provide reliability risk assessments to cross-functional teams and executive leadership.
- Create and implement test plans to effectively mitigate risks in new product designs.
- Facilitate and direct multidisciplinary discussions to evaluate technical risk through FMEA.
- Leverage internal and external resources to complete reliability test plans.
- Record, organize, and manage large amounts of detailed test data.
- Methodically analyze test data and interpret results for critical reliability decision-making.
- Troubleshoot instrument failures and/or reliability issues as necessary.
- Direct, execute, and document root cause investigations.
- Guide the team to corrective action identification, implementation, and validation.
- Escalate top issues by providing clear, well-structured, high-level updates.
- Provide engineering input for new designs to ensure reliable and robust products.
- Support 3 projects working on the Imaging Platform, A7, Sustaining.
- Perform lab work for new product final liability testing (30%).
- Provide field support for product failures, reviewing issues with engineers and providing solutions (40%).
- Conduct cost reduction activities for sustaining projects (30%).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
