System Reliability Engineer Program Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the system reliability program across architecture, design, integration, qualification, production, and field operation.
• Define system reliability objectives, allocations, assumptions, and evidence requirements for integrated mechanical, electrical, software-enabled, and propulsion systems.
• Maintain reliability block diagrams, system FMECA, fault trees, interface-risk assessments, and single-point-failure analyses for platform architectures.
• Integrate component and sub-assembly reliability assessments from supplier industrialization engineers into system-level risk, readiness, and mitigation decisions.
• Define targeted qualification, environmental, screening, accelerated-life, and integrated-system tests based on mission risks and failure hypotheses.
• Lead system-level failure investigations using teardown evidence, test data, manufacturing records, supplier information, and field observations.
• Establish and maintain failure-reporting, corrective-action, and reliability-growth workflows that connect field and production evidence to design and process changes.
• Communicate reliability risk, residual risk, confidence, and recommended mitigations to technical and program leadership under schedule pressure.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, reliability engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in system reliability, hardware reliability, failure analysis, test engineering, or complex electromechanical systems engineering.
• Demonstrated experience applying reliability block diagrams, FMEA or FMECA, fault-tree analysis, root-cause analysis, or comparable system-reliability methods.
• Experience allocating system reliability requirements to components and sub-assemblies and integrating their evidence into platform-level decisions.
• Experience defining targeted tests and mitigations from incomplete reliability data, failure hypotheses, or field evidence.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical work, make risk-based decisions, and explain reliability tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with aerospace, defense, UAS, propulsion, robotics, autonomous systems, automotive, or other high-consequence hardware.
• Experience with environmental qualification, accelerated-life testing, reliability demonstration, screening, or integrated-system test campaigns.