Principal Hardware Reliability Engineer
Core
Technical authority defining and executing hardware reliability strategies, modeling, and testing for high-power satellite platforms to ensure mission success and availability.
Role type
Principal Hardware Reliability Engineer
Builds
High-power satellite platforms for LEO to deep space missions
Domain
Aerospace / Space Systems / Hardware Reliability
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Reliability engineering, hardware testing, failure analysis, Weibull/Kaplan-Meier analysis, accelerated failure time (AFT) modeling, Monte Carlo simulations, Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), root cause investigation, statistical modeling, Python/C++ programming, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, Physics of Failure (PoF) methodologies
Preferred skills
MCMC tools (PyMC, Stan, NumPyro), degradation-based modeling (Gamma/Wiener), thermal/vibration/TVAC qualification, EEE component expertise in space applications, FTA, reliability growth tracking
Technologies
PyMC, Stan, NumPyro, Sherlock
Responsibilities
Define and drive HALT/HASS strategies and reliability growth programs; Establish and evolve reliability modeling frameworks reconciling QTP, ATP, HALT, HASS, and flight telemetry; Integrate reliability analyses with program risk management to influence design and manufacturing; Flow down reliability requirements to subsystems; Lead root cause investigations on critical hardware failures; Mentor engineers on reliability methods and shape the long-term technical direction; Own FRACAS and test-effectiveness tracking; Partner on telemetry implementation for degradation observability; Advance Bayesian reliability methods and degradation models.
Seniority
Principal, technical authority & mentorship