Staff Hardware Reliability Engineer - Drive by Wire (Automotive)

Location: Hybrid, with in-office work at least 3 days per week. Role locations are Mountain View, CA, or Pittsburgh, PA.

Salary: $181,000–$262,000 per year for Mountain View, CA; $163,000–$236,000 per year for Pittsburgh, PA. Additional annual bonus, equity compensation, and benefits are available.

Company

Develops autonomous driving technology for safer, more efficient, and more accessible transportation and logistics.

What you will do

• Lead hardware reliability testing and validation for automotive drive-by-wire systems in autonomous vehicles, including ECUs, actuators, and motors.
• Develop and monitor stress, environmental, and failure-analysis testing protocols.
• Analyze failure data, identify root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Prepare reliability reports and present findings and hardware-improvement risks to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with hardware, systems, electrical, firmware, mechanical, software, manufacturing, and external partner teams.
• Mentor reliability engineers and drive adoption of reliability best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hardware reliability engineering experience, preferably in automotive, aerospace, or heavy-duty vehicles.
• Strong knowledge of hardware design, reliability testing, HALT/HASS, vibration, thermal cycling, humidity, and failure analysis.
• Experience with joint development partners, systems and software teams, and hardware/software interactions.
• Experience leading root-cause analysis and corrective-action processes such as 8D, 5-Why, and Fishbone.
• Proficiency with data-analysis tools such as Python and JMP, plus familiarity with Weibull++, dFMEA, reliability prediction, and assurance methods.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of ISO 26262, ISO 16750, and other automotive safety standards.
• Experience with automotive electronics, ECUs, compute hardware, thermal and power reliability, or connector reliability.
• Experience working with contract manufacturers or Tier-1 suppliers on PPAP and supplier corrective actions.
• Mentoring experience and knowledge of test automation and infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with regular in-person collaboration.
• Annual bonus, equity compensation, and employee benefits.
• Safety-focused working environment and cross-functional collaboration.