Failure Analysis Engineer - Materials

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead evidence-based investigations of consequential test, manufacturing, supplier, and field failures; determine the physical failure mechanism, and establish confidence in the conclusion.
• Own Failure Analysis cases from intake through technical conclusion, including hardware handling, inspection strategy, test sequencing, laboratory execution, external lab coordination as needed, technical…
• Preserve and develop physical evidence through appropriate inspection and analytical workflows including optical microscopy, SEM/EDS, CT, FTIR, cross-sectioning, metallography, mechanical testing, and related…
• Identify mechanisms such as fatigue, overload, corrosion, stress-corrosion cracking, embrittlement, wear, delamination, porosity, contamination, processing defects, coating failures, and other material or…
• Build standardized Failure Analysis workflows, report formats, evidence-handling practices, confidence assessments, and failure-mechanism nomenclature so investigations are consistent and reusable across the company.
• Build and maintain a centralized, searchable body of Failure Analysis knowledge that allows repeat and cross-program failure mechanisms to be tracked and connected
• Partner with design, manufacturing, reliability, supplier quality, test, systems, and operations teams to ensure Failure Analysis findings influence design standards, supplier requirements, qualification testing,…
• Review proposed corrective actions and provide technical expertise and evidence to ensure they address the identified physical failure mechanism.