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Motive is seeking a Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability, durability, and quality of connected hardware products from design through mass production. You will own reliability strategy, qualification planning, failure analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure products perform consistently in demanding real-world environments.
You will collaborate with hardware, mechanical, firmware, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to identify risks, resolve complex issues, and improve product performance. You will report to the engineering manager.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop reliability specifications for new product introductions (NPI) by collaborating with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, product management, and program management teams to understand design and use cases.
- Lead environmental, mechanical, electrical, and accelerated-life testing activities.
- Collaborate with design and manufacturing teams to improve product reliability, test coverage, and production quality.
- Own end-to-end reliability for NPI products and drive Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) to highlight reliability risks early in the product development cycle.
- Create reliability test plans during xVT builds and work with manufacturing partners and test vendors on test execution.
- Drive failure analysis with internal and external stakeholders, managing corrective and preventive actions from issue identification through verification.
- Perform reliability risk assessments as necessary.
- Provide clear summaries of reliability findings to cross-functional teams during xVT to support design and product decisions.
Motive empowers people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. The platform integrates safety, operations, and finance management for drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers across transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.
Requirements:
- BS or higher in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or similar discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in hardware reliability engineering of consumer electronics or automotive electronics products.
- Familiarity with industry standards such as MIL, SAE, IEC, ISO, and JEDEC.
- Prior experience with accelerated life tests (ALT) and using acceleration models to develop reliability specifications.
- Hands-on experience with reliability testing such as vibration, environmental testing, mechanical shock, and drop testing.
- Basic understanding of reliability statistics such as Weibull analysis.
- Excellent supplier management and project management skills.
