Description
Anduril Industries is seeking a Staff Reliability Engineer to join their Reliability & System Safety Engineering organization. The successful candidate will work across various product portfolios, including Air Dominance & Strike, Counter-UAS, Maritime, Ground Systems, Space, and Mission Autonomy.
The Reliability Engineering team partners with engineering, manufacturing, and operations organizations to ensure autonomous systems survive real-world conditions and deliver consistent performance. The team's mandate spans the complete product lifecycle, from early concept design through production scale-up and fielded operations.
The Staff Reliability Engineer will be responsible for:
- Supporting and reviewing system block diagrams, interface control documents, and schematics for compliance, redundancy, and accuracy against requirements and concept of operations
- Leading Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) efforts, collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams to implement design improvements
- Performing predictive reliability analysis to calculate probability of loss of control, loss of asset, and MTTF/MTBF
- Developing and executing comprehensive Qualification and Validation Test plans
- Working with Quality and Manufacturing Engineering to develop, refine, and validate assembly, integration, and testing processes
- Developing Maintainability prediction models using MIL-HDBK-472
- Performing Weibull analysis utilizing data from qualification campaigns, production testing, and fielded assets
- Leading failure investigations on anomalies originating from design validation, production testing, and field returns
- Supporting Development Milestone Reviews through the identification of appropriate entry and exit criteria
- Developing and implementing standardized reliability processes, tools, and infrastructure
The ideal candidate will have:
- Minimum of 12 years experience as a Reliability Engineer, Design/Development Engineer, or Test Engineer
- B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
- Experience with safety-critical hardware & software systems in the defense or aerospace industry
- Experience or familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-516C, and MIL-STD-1629
- Experience setting up a Reliability Engineering framework for a product or program
- Expertise in reliability analysis techniques, including FMEA/FMECA, predictive modeling, Weibull analysis, and Fault Tree Analysis
Preferred qualifications include:
- M.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
- Experience with MIL-HDBK-217Plus, MIL-HDBK-472, MIL-STD-1916
- Experience with Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) Assessments, Manufacturing Review Board (MRB), Quality Inspection, Tooling, or Calibration