PCBA Reliability Engineer - All Levels (Robotics)

Location: San Jose, CA, United States

Salary: $120,000–$250,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots for home and commercial markets.

What you will do

• Define PCBA reliability specifications and validation methods from current and prospective product use cases.
• Lead DFMEA activities with design engineers, assessing risks, impacts, controls, and corrective actions.
• Develop and execute reliability tests for PCBAs, electronic components, electrical harnesses, and connectors.
• Manage internal and external resources and suppliers during reliability testing for engineering builds.
• Collaborate with test engineers on custom fixtures, electronics, and code.
• Lead failure analysis, design of experiments, corrective actions, documentation, and physics/statistical analysis of test and field failures.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of reliability engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant science or engineering field.
• Strong knowledge of environmental reliability testing, including high temperature/high humidity, thermal cycle/shock, and mechanical vibration/shock.
• Strong knowledge of AECQ, JEDEC, IPC, and related industry test standards.
• Strong knowledge of electrical circuits, PCBA design, relevant software tools such as Altium, PCBA failure modes, mechanisms, and failure-analysis techniques.
• Hands-on experience with field reliability risk analysis and failure prediction methods.
• Hands-on experience with Weibull++, JMP, or other reliability statistical analysis software.
• Hands-on experience debugging electronic circuits with tools such as source meters and oscilloscopes.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping reliable robotics, consumer, or automotive products.
• Knowledge of PCBA manufacturing processes and quality-control practices.
• Hands-on experience with CATIA V6 CAD.
• Hands-on experience with failure-analysis tools and techniques including SEM/EDS, CT-X-ray, cross-section, and FTIR.
• Hands-on experience with accelerometers, load cells, strain gauges, and related setup and data-acquisition techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position based in San Jose, California.
• Total compensation may include additional components and benefits depending on the specific role.
• Compensation varies based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.