Senior Staff Test Engineer - Reliability

Description

The company builds AI-powered humanoid robots and is bringing its flagship robot, Apollo, to market at scale, starting with manufacturing and logistics and later extending to healthcare and the home.

The team works across the full robotics stack on problems such as safety, commercialization, and mass production.

This is a senior technical leadership role owning how reliability is defined, tested, and proven for complex electromechanical systems.

Responsibilities

• Set reliability targets and a roadmap for the product, split top-level MTBF into subsystem and component targets, and shape design through design reviews, derating guidance, and component and supplier qualification.
• Lead engineers in reliability testing, advising on their method and rigor, and decide the sample size, test duration, and confidence level needed to prove top-level MTBF, focusing on the highest-risk components and subsystems across life, stress, HALT/HASS, thermal, and environmental testing.
• Lead root-cause investigations of failures from test, manufacturing, and the field, coach engineers through the analysis, and run a closed-loop FRACAS process that returns field and test data to design.
• Guide the team in building life and failure-rate models such as Weibull, FMEA inputs, fault trees, and reliability block diagrams, roll component results up into system MTBF estimates with confidence bounds, and track reliability growth against the target.
• Mentor and develop engineers, work with design, manufacturing, and quality teams, and report reliability risks, test investment tradeoffs, and progress toward MTBF targets to leadership.

Requirements

• Have led reliability programs for complex electromechanical products, including allocating top-level MTBF to subsystem and component targets and planning the sample size, test duration, and confidence level to demonstrate it.
• Have hands-on experience designing and running reliability tests (life, accelerated, HALT/HASS, thermal, environmental) and interpreting results with statistical methods such as Weibull analysis and reliability growth models.
• Have led root-cause investigations across mechanical, electrical, and firmware domains, driven corrective actions to closure, and run a failure reporting system such as FRACAS.
• Have technically led and mentored engineers, directed their test plans, advised on method and rigor, and explained reliability risks and tradeoffs to leadership.
• Hold a BS in engineering or a related field with 15 years of relevant experience, or an MS with 13 years, or a PhD with 12 years.
• Can sit at a desk for long periods while working on a computer, lift 15 pounds at times, read printed materials and screens, and communicate by speech and hearing.

Conditions

This is a direct hire position; agency solicitations are not accepted.

Physical requirements include prolonged desk and computer work and occasionally lifting 15 pounds.