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Bedrock Robotics

Robot type
Construction
Location
San FranciscoCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Hardware
Posted
Jun 25, 2026
Full-time

Reliability Engineer, Hardware

Job description

At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and into the real world. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. Today, we're deploying autonomous systems on heavy construction equipment across the country, improving safety on job sites and accelerating schedules on critical infrastructure projects. We're not here debating the future of AI. We're deploying it in the real world. In just two years, we've raised $350M and achieved the first fully autonomous excavator deployments in construction. This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots.

Job responsibilities

  • Reliability Program Ownership : Define and own the hardware reliability strategy, requirements, and budgets (reliability/availability targets, MTBF/MTBUR goals, duty cycles, mission profiles) for autonomy upfit…
  • DFMEA Leadership : Plan and facilitate Design FMEAs across mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical subsystems — identifying failure modes, effects, and causes; scoring severity/occurrence/detection;
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) : Build and maintain fault trees for safety-critical and availability-critical functions;
  • Reliability Modeling & Prediction : Develop reliability block diagrams, reliability allocations, and predictions;
  • Reliability Testing : Define and execute HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing (ALT), and environmental/durability test programs (vibration, shock, thermal cycling, dust/water ingress, corrosion);
  • Field Failure Analysis : Stand up and run a Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System; lead root-cause investigations (8D, 5-Whys, fishbone, fault isolation) and drive corrective/preventive actions from…
  • Design for Reliability (DfR) : Embed reliability into design and milestone reviews — derating, redundancy, tolerance stack-up, thermal and vibration margin, connector/harness reliability, ingress protection — and gate…
  • Supplier & Component Reliability : Partner with supply chain and vendors to qualify components and suppliers, define reliability acceptance criteria, review supplier reliability data, and manage derating,…

Job requirements

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Physics, Mechatronics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience: 10+ years in hardware reliability engineering for vehicles, heavy machinery, robotics, automotive, aerospace, or industrial equipment.
  • Reliability Methods: Deep, hands-on expertise leading DFMEA and FTA, plus reliability prediction/modeling, accelerated and life testing (HALT/HASS, ALT), and structured root-cause analysis / FRACAS.
  • Tools: Strong working knowledge of reliability and statistical tools (e.g., ReliaSoft Weibull++/BlockSim, Windchill Quality/Relex, Minitab, Python or R); familiarity with PDM/PLM systems a plus.
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