Reliability Engineer (Nuclear Hardware)

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States

Salary: $140,000–$200,000 annually

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates low-cost uranium enrichment services in the United States to support nuclear fuel production for advanced reactors and critical industries.

What you will do

• Design and lead accelerated life, life-leader, and component reliability test campaigns across hardware systems.
• Develop reliability test plans that map applied stresses to field conditions using acceleration models.
• Perform statistical analyses to determine sample sizes, test durations, confidence levels, and reliability targets.
• Define reliability requirements and maintain FMEA/FMECA, reliability block diagrams, fault trees, reliability models, and life predictions.
• Analyze test and field data, characterize failure modes, lead root-cause investigations, and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Partner with test engineering, design, manufacturing, and quality to embed design-for-reliability practices throughout the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Reliability, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience designing and executing reliability test campaigns, such as accelerated life testing, HALT/HASS, durability, or component reliability testing.
• Strong applied statistics, including Weibull and life-data analysis, reliability demonstration testing, sample-size determination, design of experiments, confidence intervals, and acceleration modeling.
• Proficiency with reliability and statistical tools such as ReliaSoft Weibull++/ALTA, Minitab, JMP, Python, or R.
• Experience with FMEA/FMECA and reliability modeling, alongside strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends when necessary.

Nice to have

• Experience in automotive, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, industrial equipment, or energy industries.
• Experience building a reliability program or test capability from the ground up.
• Familiarity with physics-of-failure methods and accelerated stress modeling.
• Certified Reliability Engineer certification, advanced degrees, or evidence of exceptional ability through projects or completed products.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven work focused on making nuclear energy more affordable.
• First-principles engineering culture with urgency, accountability, and transparency.
• Full-time hires may be eligible for stock options and long-term incentives.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage may be available.
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.