# Senior Reliability Test Engineer

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $145,000-$235,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

As a Senior Reliability Test Engineer, you work at the intersection of every engineering discipline to ensure hardware meets the highest bar for quality and reliability.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute qualification and validation test plans: environmental, accelerated life, shock, vibration, thermal cycling, HALT, and HASS.

- Design, build, and automate test equipment, fixturing, and instrumentation end-to-end in Python, maximizing throughput against rapid design cycles.

- Establish reliability targets across PCBAs, power electronics, avionics, actuators, batteries, high-speed digital and RF systems, and develop unit-level mission profiles.

- Review block diagrams, interface control documents, and schematics, and guide teams on design for reliability.

- Lead DFMEA and Fault Tree Analysis with cross-functional teams, and convert output into design verification plans and implemented design changes.

- Build and maintain reliability models as living artifacts, creating physics-of-failure predictions, mission risk quantification, and Weibull analysis.

- Serve as the escalation point for reliability risks, leading containment and root-cause investigation of high-impact failures.

- Coordinate failure analysis and destructive physics analysis using various tools and techniques.

- Perform analyses on field telemetry, identify performance and degradation trends, and influence upstream teams to prioritize work that prevents reliability failures.

- Define entry and exit criteria for program gates and mentor engineers to raise reliability capability across the company.

Requirements:

- B.S. in Mechanical, Electrical, Physics, Materials Science, or an equivalent technical discipline.

- 5+ years in reliability, test, or design engineering on high-reliability hardware or 3+ years with an M.S.

- Hands-on testing experience with mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical systems.

- Experience standing up reliability engineering frameworks for a product or program.

- Experience generating qualification test requirements and executing tests.

- Domain depth in one or more areas: EEE piece parts, avionics, PCBA reliability, battery systems, EV powertrain or HV devices, thermal systems, actuators, or solar cells.

- Experience owning reliability infrastructure: test labs and chambers, failure analysis equipment, metrology and instrumentation.

- Proven track record of driving systemic improvements and shaping engineering strategy.

- Expertise in reliability analysis: FMEA/FMECA, FTA, predictive modeling, and Weibull analysis.

- Failure investigation experience with a proven record of solving problems and preventing recurrence.

- Design review experience and confidence presenting to every level of leadership.

- Strong technical writing skills.

- Working proficiency in Python, C++, or another coding language.

Benefits:

- Compensation package including equity and robust benefits.

- Base pay: $145,000-$235,000 USD.

- High-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance, 401(k) retirement planning, flexible PTO, and free on-site catered meals.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C++
- reliability analysis
- FMEA/FMECA
- FTA
- predictive modeling
- Weibull analysis
- mechanical engineering
- electrical engineering

### Nice to have
- M.S. in engineering discipline
- Reliability Engineering degree
- ASTM
- JEDEC
- IEEE
- ISO
- MIL test standards
- Weibull++
- ReliaSoft
- HV testing experience
- JMP
- R for data analysis
- Linux
- shell scripting
- software/firmware HITL/SITL
- Python/SQL for data analysis

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