# Senior Engineer, Reliability (R6440)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 142,000-213,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering activities for the development, integration, testing, and operation of aircraft systems.

## Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain aircraft-level reliability requirements, objectives, and program reliability plans.

- Establish, allocate, and manage reliability budgets across systems, subsystems, and line-replaceable units.

- Track predicted reliability against program targets and identify components or subsystems driving reliability risk.

- Perform reliability predictions using component failure-rate data, operating environments, and mission profiles.

- Conduct Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) analysis.

- Support aircraft system safety assessments by providing failure rates, failure modes, and reliability data.

- Develop and maintain Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time Between Critical Failure (MTBCF), mission reliability, availability, and related reliability metrics.

- Perform reliability allocation, trade studies, sensitivity analyses, and design assessments.

- Lead or support Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) activities.

- Analyze ground-test, flight-test, supplier, maintenance, and field-performance data to identify reliability trends.

- Apply Weibull analysis and other statistical methods to evaluate failure behavior and predict component life.

- Work with design teams to eliminate single-point failures, reduce high-risk failure modes, and improve fault tolerance.

- Review supplier reliability analyses, test results, and supporting technical data.

- Define reliability demonstration and growth-test requirements, success criteria, and data-collection needs.

- Support technical reviews, including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, and reliability review boards.

- Communicate reliability performance, budget status, assumptions, risks, and recommended corrective actions to customers and program leadership.

- Mentor junior engineers and improve organizational reliability processes, tools, and standards.

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in reliability engineering, systems engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field

- 5+ years of related experience in reliability engineering, systems engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field

- Direct experience supporting aircraft development, integration, testing, sustainment, or operations.

- Experience developing and managing reliability budgets at the system, subsystem, or equipment level.

- Proficiency with reliability methods such as FMEA/FMECA, FTA, RBD, Weibull analysis, reliability predictions, and FRACAS.

- Familiarity with reliability metrics such as MTBF, MTBCF, failure rate, mission reliability, operational availability, and inherent availability.

- Experience using reliability analysis tools such as ReliaSoft, Windchill Quality Solutions, Isograph, RAM Commander, or equivalent.

- Ability to interpret aircraft mission profiles, operating environments, duty cycles, and test data.

- Experience working with multidisciplinary engineering teams and suppliers.

- Strong analytical, technical writing, presentation, and customer communication skills.

- Ability to obtain and maintain any security clearance required for the program.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working on military aircraft, unmanned aircraft, or other defense aerospace platforms.

- Experience managing aircraft-level reliability allocations and flowing requirements down to suppliers.

- Familiarity with MIL-HDBK-217, NPRD, EPRD, RIAC 217Plus, or equivalent reliability prediction methods and databases.

- Experience integrating reliability engineering with system safety, maintainability, logistics, and availability analyses.

- Knowledge of Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) and condition-based maintenance approaches.

- Experience supporting environmental qualification, ground testing, flight testing, or reliability growth testing.

- Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering and requirements management tools.

- Certified Reliability Engineer credentials or equivalent professional certification.

- Active U.S. security clearance.

## Skills

### Required
- Reliability engineering
- Systems engineering
- Aerospace engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Electrical engineering
- FMEA/FMECA
- FTA
- RBD
- Weibull analysis
- Reliability predictions
- FRACAS
- ReliaSoft
- Windchill Quality Solutions
- Isograph
- RAM Commander

### Nice to have
- Military aircraft
- Unmanned aircraft
- Defense aerospace platforms
- MIL-HDBK-217
- NPRD
- EPRD
- RIAC 217Plus
- Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Condition-based maintenance
- Model-Based Systems Engineering

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