Senior Reliability Test Engineer

Location: San Francisco, United States; work is based at the Northern California headquarters.

Base salary: $145,000–$235,000 USD per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates advanced satellites that provide secure, dedicated communications networks for enterprises, governments, and the U.S. military.

What you will do

• Develop and execute environmental, accelerated life, shock, vibration, thermal cycling, HALT, and HASS qualification and validation tests.
• Design, build, and automate test equipment, fixtures, instrumentation, and data acquisition systems in Python.
• Establish reliability targets and mission profiles for PCBAs, power electronics, avionics, actuators, batteries, high-speed digital systems, and RF hardware.
• Lead DFMEA, FTA, reliability modeling, physics-of-failure predictions, mission risk quantification, and Weibull analysis.
• Investigate validation, production, field, and on-orbit failures using electrical characterization, microscopy, thermal imaging, X-ray, CT, cross-sectioning, and SEM-EDS.
• Guide design reviews, program gates, reliability infrastructure, and cross-functional improvements while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or an equivalent technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in reliability, test, or design engineering for high-reliability hardware, or 3+ years with an M.S.
• Hands-on experience testing mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical systems, including sensors, actuators, instrumentation, and DAQ devices.
• Experience building reliability engineering frameworks, qualification requirements, test programs, production testing, and field data analysis.
• Expertise in FMEA/FMECA, FTA, predictive modeling, Weibull analysis, failure investigation, and design reviews.
• Working proficiency in Python, C++, or another coding language, plus strong technical writing and presentation skills.

Nice to have

• M.S. in engineering or a degree in Reliability Engineering.
• Familiarity with ASTM, JEDEC, IEEE, ISO, and MIL test standards.
• Experience with Weibull++, ReliaSoft, HV testing, JMP, R, Linux, shell scripting, HITL/SITL, Python, or SQL.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity through incentive stock options.
• Company-subsidized healthcare, disability insurance, and life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement planning and flexible PTO.
• Free on-site catered meals.
• U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, or refugee/asylee status is required to comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations.
• Commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace.