Staff Engineer, Reliability

Celestica International LP•Austin, TX

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Staff Reliability Engineer works in cross-functional teams with designers, customers, manufacturing engineering, and project leaders to ensure products designed can meet reliability specifications. This role involves defining the reliability testing strategy, creating reliability test plans, and conducting tests. The engineer will also complete a stress-based MTBF analysis of products to provide initial reliability predictions.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience with FMEA, design for reliability (DFR), DFT and design for manufacturability (DFM) concepts, particularly as they relate to process, property and complex manufacturing systems.
Familiar with Reliability Block Diagram(RBD), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), De-rating, reparable and life analysis.
Familiar with Environmental and reliability testing such as Vibration test, shock test, drop test, storage test, HALT/HASS, acoustic test, RVI test, etc.
Familiar with reliability data analysis software, e.g. JMP, Minitab, and /or Windchill.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Project management and data analysis skills.
Able to work independently, self-motivated and well-organized.
Demonstrated home internet access due to hybrid nature of role.

Responsibilities

Lead reliability analysis and work with the design teams to ensure the products designed can meet reliability specification.
Work with the design team and customers to understand and define reliability requirements of products.
Conduct design review and close loops with the design team to fix design issues.
Define the reliability testing strategy, reliability test plan and conduct test.
Complete a stress based MTBF analysis of the product, thus providing initial reliability predictions.
Coordinate third-party performance and regulatory testing.
Train relevant manufacturing partner personnel to conduct the test.
Perform failure analysis and generate failure reports.
Design guidelines recommendations based on run to failure testing and stress vs. strength analysis.
Actively collaborate with the engineering team and seek opportunities to develop new/improve existing durability test methodology to enhance product development efficiency.
Apply problem-solving and analytical skills to conduct failure analysis.
Lead FMEA for chassis- and rack-level (L10/L11) products, coordinating inputs from design teams and working with other stakeholders in the organization to complete tasks per customer requirements.