Reliability Engineering Lead (Power Electronics)

Location: Scotts Valley, United States; on-site

Company

hirify.global is a startup developing scalable power electronics, including inverters and rectifiers, for renewable energy, storage, and grid-connected loads.

What you will do

• Define product reliability requirements and corporate reliability strategy while balancing cost, schedule, manufacturability, and business risk.
• Apply Physics of Failure and Design for Reliability principles across the product development lifecycle.
• Derive mission profiles from real-world use conditions and develop accelerated life test calculations, including acceleration factors, sample sizes, and durations.
• Build reliability models using Weibull and lifetime distributions, FMEA, fault tree analysis, censored data, and confidence intervals.
• Own field reliability strategy and connect field failure data with design, testing, mission profiles, warranty terms, and lifecycle cost decisions.
• Partner with Electrical, Mechanical, Firmware/Software, Quality, Product, and Commercial teams; mentor engineers and build the reliability function.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Reliability, or a related engineering discipline.
• Deep experience with Physics of Failure and Design for Reliability, including mechanisms such as fatigue, thermal effects, electromigration, and corrosion.
• Hands-on experience with mission-profile development, accelerated life testing, reliability statistics, Weibull analysis, FMEA, and fault tree analysis.
• Experience defining reliability requirements, maintainability and serviceability targets, system availability goals, and warranty-linked engineering targets.
• Experience setting reliability strategy at an organizational level and owning field reliability strategy end to end.
• Experience in power electronics or other high-reliability hardware domains, plus experience building or scaling a reliability engineering team.

Nice to have

• Published research or industry papers in reliability or Physics of Failure, such as IEEE RAMS publications.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on personal, technical, and career growth.
• First-principles engineering and solving difficult hardware reliability problems.
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
• Opportunity to build and scale a reliability engineering function within a growing startup.