Job Description

Locations

• Palo Alto, California, United States

Salary

Skills Required

• accelerated testing methodsintermediate
• physics of failureintermediate
• applied statisticsintermediate
• reliability statisticsintermediate
• Accelerated Degradation modelingintermediate
• reliability prediction methodsintermediate
• material degradation mechanismsintermediate
• reliability growth techniquesintermediate
• ReliaSoft Synthesis Platformintermediate
• Weibull++intermediate
• BlockSimintermediate
• ALTAintermediate
• RGAintermediate
• xFMEAintermediate
• failure analysis techniquesintermediate
• optical microscopyintermediate
• SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy)intermediate
• CSAM (Confocal Scanning Acoustic Microscopy)intermediate
• X-rayintermediate
• cross-sectioningintermediate
• EDXintermediate
• programming languagesintermediate
• Pythonintermediate
• Matlabintermediate

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering or a related field and three years of experience in a Reliability Engineering role or equivalent experience (experience)
• Understanding of accelerated testing methods, governing equations, and physics of failure for different failure mechanisms (experience)
• Understanding of applied statistics and reliability statistics (Weibull distribution, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Bayesian methods, Monte Carlo analysis, etc.) (experience)
• Understanding of Accelerated Degradation modeling and reliability prediction methods (experience)
• Knowledge of material degradation mechanisms and their impact on mechanical performance (experience)
• Experience analyzing test results and interpreting reliability insights (experience)
• Knowledge of reliability growth techniques, such as Crow-AMSAA and Crow Extended (experience)
• Knowledge of the ReliaSoft Synthesis Platform, including Weibull++, BlockSim, ALTA, RGA, and xFMEA (experience)
• Working knowledge of failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy), CSAM (Confocal Scanning Acoustic Microscopy), X-ray, cross-sectioning and EDX (experience)
• Working knowledge of programming languages, preferably Python, or Matlab (experience)

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Design FMEA sessions to detect risks, drive reliable design choices and inform validation testing
• Set and communicate reliability requirements and targets for site, product, subsystem, and components
• Define reliability test plans, design test conditions, set test duration and sample size, based on physics of failure modeling and accelerated life testing principles
• Analyze lab test data and field data to identify reliability trends, forecast reliability estimates utilizing statistical analysis (e.g., Weibull analysis, physics of failure models) and recommend design improvements.
• Analyze usage and environmental conditions from field to improve requirement setting and testing methods
• Communicate and drive test plans, results, learnings, and recommendations to various stakeholders within the organization
• Closely collaborate with cross-functional teams, including test, reliability data science, design, architecture modeling, service, and quality to identify potential reliability issues and drive the corrective actions
• Research failure mechanisms to build more robust validation plans and influence design choices.
• Drive reliability assessments in product design reviews and clearly communicate risk at each phase of product development and for released products
• Influence supplier selection for higher reliability and provide clear guidance on reliability requirements and demonstration to suppliers
• Facilitate failure analysis to understand root cause and drive resolution of failures occurring during product development phases
• Provide reliability design guidelines and apply reliability lessons learned to enable continuous improvement.
• Answer complex questions on fleet usage and behavior to enable proactive health monitoring, grow reliability, and minimize field failures

Benefits

• general: Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• general: Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• general: Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• general: Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• general: Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• general: 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• general: Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
• general: Employee Assistance Program
• general: Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
• general: Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• general: Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• general: Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• general: Tesla Babies program
• general: Commuter benefits
• general: Employee discounts and perks program

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