Staff Reliability Engineer Job Description
Staff reliability engineer
provides data analysis using Reliability Data/Statistical and predictive modeling to assist in shaping data-driven risk assessments as an input for decision making, including:.
Staff Reliability Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Develop and maintain individual project plans and schedules, track and report progress on a regular basis
Cascading Critical To Quality (CTQ) elements to internal or external manufacturing during design transfer
Monitoring field reliability, deep dive failure investigations of critical and major issues, and drives product improvements
Develops management reports to qualify and monitor risks to ensure risk responses are timely and effective
Compiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics
Identify Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) trends to identify and prioritize failure modes to investigate for corrective actions
Perform Built-In-Test (BIT) analysis, implementation, and validation
Interact with engineers, subcontractors, suppliers, program managers and customers during the investigation, documentation and resolution of system failures
Support design reviews and test activities as required
Demonstrated working knowledge in applied probability & statistics
Staff Reliability Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Staff Reliability Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, IATF16949, TC, SSA, FTA, FHA, FMEA, ISO, ASQ, TS16949
Education for Staff Reliability Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the staff reliability engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical, Science, Electrical Engineering, Education, Physics, Technology, Math, MBA
Skills for Staff Reliability Engineer
Desired skills for staff reliability engineer include:
Linux systems
Statistical data analysis tools
AppDynamics
Application design patterns
CMOS Image Sensors
CMOS device physics
Commercial and automotive reliability standards
DHCP
Database schemas
Event-driven architecture
Desired experience for staff reliability engineer includes:
Experience with specimen preparation techniques such as micro-sectioning
The applicant should be familiar with electronic component manufacturing processes, packaging construction and physics of failure for electronic components
The applicant should be familiar with the lab equipment used in failure analysis, such as Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), x-ray, SEM, microcircuit de-capsulation, environmental chambers, curve tracers
Knowledge of when to use other analytical tools such as XRF and FTIR
Familiar with component failure modes including corrosion and electro-migration induced failures
Knowledgeable in metallurgical fracture analysis
Staff Reliability Engineer Examples
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Staff Reliability Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a staff reliability engineer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for staff reliability engineer
- Work with and guide functional teams in designing for reliability
- Engage in discussions with FDA on system safety and reliability
- Design, develop and validate reliability and remaining useful life/time to failure models that will be leveraged for analytics product development
- Be able to influence from a technical standpoint across the function and business
- Mentor other engineers in the domain of reliability modeling
- Based on the process and/or package, list all the stress testing required to establish the lifetime of the product
- Apply appropriate reliability tools to drive improvements, optimize costs, and improve AE (e.g., Bad Actor Program, FMEA, RBI, RBM, RCM, Reliability Roadmap)
- Ensure development of Critical Equipment list and Critical Spares Inventory
- Monitor Maintenance and Reliability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics for proactive identification and resolution of reliability issues
- Lead Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFAs) and corrective actions for complex and/or repetitive problems in coordination with Asset Management
Qualifications for staff reliability engineer
- The applicant should be comfortable working in a team environment with both local and remote team members
- The applicant should be comfortable in managing multiple, small tasks simultaneously
- The applicant should be comfortable in quickly changing priorities and achieving results within short time durations
- US Persons (i.e., US Citizen or Permanent Resident)Status is required
- Must have an Engineering degree from an accredited University
- Must have 3-5 years of proven Reliability & Maintainability experience
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of staff reliability engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for staff reliability engineer
- Research and communicate new technologies and maintenance practices to improve asset availability and optimize costs
- Provide technical leadership and oversight to non-control system I & E services, such as Grounding and Bonding and Thermography, PDMA testing (motor diagnostic testing), and CMMS
- Conduct periodic review and writing of instrument/electrical standards, procedures and guidelines
- Utilizes their deep knowledge of operations engineering, connected services, and information technology plus their knowledge of industry best practices to innovate and influence operational approaches and solutions
- Collecting metrics, crunching data and improving service monitoring to detect problems before they’re visible to our customers
- Building systems to automate our server lifecycle, from configuration management to server bootstrap and decommission
- Scaling our continuous deployment system to accommodate a rapidly growing team and increasing feature velocity without compromising stability
- Troubleshooting, performing root cause analysis, and resolving production issues from the network and application layers all the way down to the system level
- Advising other development teams when building new products so that they’re scalable, maintainable, and performing well
- Execute package level EM test and environmental testing to support product reliability assessment and qualification
Qualifications for staff reliability engineer
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Statistics or other quantitative field from an accredited university with 8+years industrial experience building and implementing reliability engineering and related competencies or an advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in a quantitative field with up to 5 years industrial experience building and implementing reliability engineering and related competencies
- Results-driven, self-motivated, self-starter
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with a proven ability to communicate technical information to a cross-functional audience
- Knowledge of handling large data sets
- Knowledge of statistical/simulation tools such as Matlab, Mathematica, OpenBUGS, or any fault tree program’
- MTTF, MTBF, Survival Analysis, Weibull Analysis, Fatigue, Accelerated Life testing, Reliability Allocation, Six Sigma, root cause analysis
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a staff reliability engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for staff reliability engineer
- Develop test flows
- Functionally maintain EM equipment, boards, supplies
- Direct Gigafactory EPC team disciplines (mechanical, process, electrical, CSA) in improving the reliability of innovative Gigafactory system designs
- Drive reliability improvements through quantitative analysis of complex systems of interconnected utilities
- Facilitate reliability analyses and drive the production of FMEA and HAZOP documentation
- Provide quick resolution of issues stemming from root cause failure analysis
- Assist in developing and improving global reliability standards
- Quantify and communicate risks to an executive level
- Participate in controls strategy discussions and assist in system alarm rationalization
- Review, analyze, and drive existing manufacturing process technologies with a goal of continuously improve the yield, increase production line efficiency (eliminate manual command, data inputs, data gathering automation, via programming automation), and lean manufacturing process
Qualifications for staff reliability engineer
- Bachelors in related engineering disciplines with 5+ years of relevant work experience or Masters/Ph.D
- 2+ year’s minimum experience of testing optical devices for optical communication
- Advanced level knowledge of the LN modulators for high bit rate optical communication application is a plus
- Knowledge of Six Sigma or statistical analysis is a plus
- Strong trouble shooting skills on HW and optical component test is required
- LabView and Test Stand Certification is a plus
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Staff Reliability Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a staff reliability engineer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for staff reliability engineer
- Define process and intrinsic device reliability qualification plans and execute the qualifications
- Develop and implement new intrinsic device reliability test methods
- Exercise independent judgment in the selection of tools, methods and techniques used to deliver software and services
- Overall accountability to the customer, the supplier, the sales organization, the product managers, regarding all quality aspects, during the NPD process
- Support of the engineering team and initiate improvements to the NPD process, evaluation and advice on Customer Quality agreements /specifications
- Your day-to-day responsibility will include preparing concise and detailed reliability test plans and reports to meet challenging deadlines
- Interacting with program management team for the product transfer qualification scheduling and requirement
- You will research and pursue root causes of reliability test failures with working closely with product engineer and failure analysis
- You will apply your exposure and experience in performing reliability testing including Mechanical Stress Tests, Shock/Drop/Vibration Testing, and Environmental Testing
- You must and will master the industry test Standards (JEDEC, ASTM, IEEE), possess with solid understanding of mechanical assemblies and construction
Qualifications for staff reliability engineer
- Ability to lead and contribute in multiple projects as an individual contributor
- Version management - Git + Bitbucket (or Gerrit or Github)
- Build tools - Maven, Gradle, Ant, nmake and other build tools
- CI tools - Jenkins and others
- Binary Management tools - Artifactory, Nexus and others
- Strong Coding / Scripting - Python, Ruby, Shell
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Staff Reliability Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a staff reliability engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for staff reliability engineer
- Drive reliability performance by using the most appropriate and effective tools and techniques
- Provide technical support to Production and Maintenance personnel, lead or participate in Root Cause Failure Analyses, and monitor KPI data for early identification and resolution of reliability issues
- Collaborate with Production and Maintenance personnel and provide services related to design review, repair, and maintenance, including predictive/preventative maintenance activities
- Deliver technical support to troubleshooting of problems and optimization of PM and PdM programs
- Ensure a culture of continuous improvement employing LEAN Manufacturing tools
- Experience managing a container-based microservice architecture, including orchestration, service-discovery, monitoring, and debugging
- In-depth knowledge of operating systems (processes, threads, IPC, concurrency, locks, mutexes, semaphores)
- Comprehensive knowledge of the internal workings of at least one of Postgres, Mongo, Redis
- Track-record of working cooperatively with software engineering teams
- Focus on security in the delivery of all levels of a system
Qualifications for staff reliability engineer
- Infrastructure / Virtualization tools - vCloud, Openstack, Amazon Ec2, Microsoft Azure and others
- Understanding of Hadoop Ecosystem will be a strong plus
- Understanding of Test Automation Frameworks will be a plus
- Understanding of Java or similar programming framework will be a plus
- 5+ years of software development experience with proficiency in Python, Perl or similar
- 2 or more years of experience in OpenStack, AWS, or other cloud-based solutions