Senior Reliability Design Engineer – Hardware

About the role

An experienced Senior Reliability Design Engineer (Hardware) will lead reliability engineering activities for complex hardware systems, driving Design for Reliability, life‑cycle performance improvement, and failure investigation.

Key responsibilities

• Define and deploy Design for Reliability (DfR) methodology throughout product development, focusing on electrical/electronic architecture, component selection, derating and design margins.
• Establish reliability requirements, budgets, prediction models and growth plans for electromechanical and electronic systems.
• Lead reliability reviews from concept through commercialization and drive risk identification and mitigation across electrical, thermal, mechanical, environmental and operational stresses.
• Apply robust design methods to reduce sensitivity to manufacturing variation, environmental stress and component tolerances, and develop design margins and derating strategies for key components and assemblies.
• Define verification strategies, testing plans and conduct reliability demonstration tests, leading root‑cause investigations using tools such as FTA, DOE and Monte Carlo simulation.

Required profile

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in electrical, electronic, reliability, mechatronics or related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of engineering experience on complex hardware products, with at least 3 years leading reliability engineering activities.
• Proven experience applying robust design, DFMEA, physics‑of‑failure and data‑driven reliability improvement in new product development.
• Ability to influence design decisions and drive reliability improvements across global cross‑functional teams.
• Working knowledge of medical device regulations such as ISO 13485, EU MDR, FDA 21 CFR and ISO 14971.

Required skills

• Design for Reliability (DfR)
• Robust Design methodology
• DFMEA
• Failure Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Monte Carlo simulation
• ISO 13485, EU MDR, FDA 21 CFR, ISO 14971 compliance
• Design for Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt) – preferred