Senior Engineer, Reliability (R6440)

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.