Sr. Systems/Reliability Engineer (optoelectronics)

22 Nov 2024

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Position Title: Sr. Systems Reliability Engineer (we called it Opto-Mechanical last time)Location: Local to Dublin, CA – don’t need to be onsite every day, but 2-3 days per week highly preferredLength: 6 months contract-to-hireProcess: First round phone interview for 30 minutes, 2nd round will be final round – probably 1 hour to 1.5 hours on Teams with 2-3 team members.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:(Responsibilities that are central to the job and must be performed either unaided, or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation, ref. ADA.)

  • Collaborate with Product Marketing and business stakeholders to understand reliability needs, and to develop reliability goals for new products.
  • Analyze, derive, and allocate Reliability requirements, budgets, and targets for system, sub-systems, and assemblies.
  • Analyze usage and environmental conditions to improve requirement setting and testing methods.
  • Employs Systems modeling, predictive and non-destructive testing methodologies to identify reliability issues within Systems architecture and designs.
  • Facilitate and participate in Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA), Design for Reliability (DFR), Effects Analysis/Fault Tree Analysis, and Reliability modeling of components and sub-systems to drive reliable design choices and improve verification and validation test planning.
  • Participate in design reviews and provide input for the reliability section of the design review.
  • Coach engineers on the required Reliability activities, drive learning and meeting project milestones
  • Create and maintain product reliability plans and reports.
  • Provides input to the Risk Management Team anticipating reliability-related safety hazards.
  • Work with quality and service to identify reliability issues trends with the goal of being input to new or modified existing designs.
  • Work with supplier selection for higher reliability components and provide clear guidance on reliability requirements for suppliers.
  • Research and apply failure mechanisms of new technologies and applications to new product development projects.
  • Develop reliability design guidelines and apply reliability lessons learned to enable continuous improvement.
Skills:
  • BS/MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
  • Minimum 12 years of experience in an optoelectronics-software design for reliability role
  • Experience with medical device product lifecycle preferred; working knowledge of medical device systems including optics, mechanical, electrical, and software components.
  • Experience with designing fault-tolerant systems.
  • Understanding of degradation models and failure knowledge of components and assemblies.
  • Familiar with modern design methodologies and associated tools.
  • Familiarity with mechatronic systems including knowledge of communication protocols, motor controllers, and microcontrollers/FPGAs.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills to communicate clearly and concisely.
  • Preferred experience with: reliability statistics, reliability modeling and prediction, Fault Tree Analysis, Weibull Tree Analysis, Six Sigma Methodology, Root Cause and Root Cause Failure Analysis, Design of Experiment, xFMEA, DfX.
  • Ability to adapt readily to change in routine and to work across multiple areas.
  • Ability to work effectively within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced changing environment.

  • ID: #23267689
  • State: California Dublin 94568 Dublin USA
  • City: Dublin
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2021-11-22
  • Deadline: 2022-01-01
  • Category: Art/media/design