Senior Reliability Engineer

The MITRE Corporation•New Bedford, MA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. Department Summary: The Mechanical & Reliability Systems and Prototype Development Department provides innovative solutions for electronic prototypes designed for advanced sensing, communication, and navigation systems. Areas of expertise include ground, airborne and shipboard systems. Engineers from the group are critical to all aspects of prototype or system development beginning with conceptual design, continuing through detail design, system integration and test, fabrication, and environmental testing. We provide technical guidance through rigorous analytical, physical, and computational methods with data driven products to enhance decision making and risk management. Roles & Responsibilities: Join MITRE and lead reliability, maintainability, and availability (RMA) engineering analyses on programs for a variety of government sponsors spanning a range of technologies.

Requirements

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 1 year of experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
B.S. in electrical or mechanical engineering or physics with RMA or operations research or systems engineering background
5+ years’ experience with RMA analysis, predictions and modeling techniques
5+ years’ experience with FMECA
5+ years’ experience with Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) process
5+ years’ experience with RMA testing, including reliability growth testing, qualification testing, and production testing
Ability to formulate RMA requirements based on user mission concept
Familiarity with concepts in software reliability and RMA software tools
Familiarity with concepts of digital engineering such as SysML and other model architectures
Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Nice To Haves

Advanced engineering degree (M.S. or PhD) with background in RMA
10+ years of experience performing reliability engineering activities
Experience performing RMA activities in a Department of War (DoW) program environment
Knowledge of reliability growth theory and tools and performing RMA testing
Experience leading engineering tasks
Experience proposing RMA infrastructure and technology development efforts
Knowledge of predictive maintenance models and reliability centered maintenance (RCM) principles

Responsibilities

Developing and specifying RMA requirements for new complex electro-mechanical systems
Conducting system RMA modeling and analyses
Assessing Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
Participating in design reviews and assessments
Participating in test planning and evaluations
Assessing failure analyses, corrective actions, and reliability growth curves
Conducting field evaluations and sustainment support to include sparing analysis and obsolescence risk analysis
Assessing production testing plans to include Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) and lot sampling plans
Participating in the execution of in-house environmental and reliability testing
Presenting findings and recommendations to MITRE program managers and sponsor organizations