- Robot type
- Surgical and Medical
- Location
- MadisonWisconsinUSA
- Job type
- Business Operations
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
Full-time
Reliability Engineer
Job description
Give hope. Give health. Make your mark in the fight against cancer.
At Accuray, we make a direct and powerful impact on the lives of cancer patients every day — helping them live longer, better lives. But our commitment to innovation offers a truly unique opportunity: the chance to change the fight against cancer — helping to develop, introduce and support new treatment delivery systems and software that will give new hope and new health to cancer patients and cancer survivors around the world .
The Reliability Systems Engineer in our Product Development department is responsible for establishing optimal reliability strategies across products and projects, identifying and tracking progress…
Job responsibilities
- Develop user and system-level product reliability requirements to enable achievement of customer and business reliability objectives;
- Translate user and system-level objectives into system and project-specific reliability plans; provide guidance to subsystem and component owners to create similar plans at those levels.
- Employ tools to identify and prioritize design risks and define mitigations to eliminate or reduce those risks as early as possible in the development cycle;
- Identify design analysis and other (non-test-based) strategies to mitigate design risks and enable requirement verification;
- Provide guidance on test strategies to achieve reliability objectives, not limited to but including reliability growth testing (e.g. HALT/step stress testing), mitigation of design risks (e.g.
- Analyze and mentor other engineers in analysis techniques to characterize failure distributions, identify and mitigate dominant failure modes.
- Track progress to reliability objectives through the development cycle; facilitate regular review of progress to objectives and mitigations to address anticipated and known failure modes;
- Mentor subsystem and component owners in identification and execution of the most beneficial reliability tools during the optimal time in the product development process.
Job requirements
- An advanced technical degree or certification in the field of Reliability Engineering.
- Experience with reliability analysis software.
- Experience in application of statistical methods.
- Knowledge of reliability tools such as FMEA, Weibull Analysis, Reliability Allocation and Prediction, De-rating, Root Cause Analysis, Ishikawa Diagrams, Pareto Analysis, DOE, and accelerated testing.
- Experience in application of reliability methodologies across the product development cycle.
- Experience in software-based test automation including Python.