staff reliability quality engineer.

Responsibilities:
Lead System-Level Reliability: Drive reliability strategy and testing for complex electromechanical medical devices, ensuring robust product performance across the design lifecycle.
Apply Advanced Methodologies: Utilize reliability engineering tools such as Weibull analysis, Reliability Modeling, Fault Tree Analysis, Accelerated Life Testing (ALT), HALT/HASS, and structured root cause analysis to drive data-based design decisions.
Define Requirements: Establish reliability requirements, reliability growth plans, and demonstration strategies for NPI (New Product Introduction) programs and sustaining design changes; devise test protocols and author comprehensive test reports.
Execute Testing: Design and execute reliability test protocols for mechanical, electrical, environmental, and software-driven subsystems across system, subsystem, and component levels.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with Systems Engineering and R&D to ensure proper linkage between design requirements, risk management, reliability verification, and validation activities.
Analyze Field Data: Drive reliability insights through the analysis of field data, complaint trends, and nonconformance data to support product improvements and risk mitigation.
Collaborate on Robustness: Work alongside R&D, Manufacturing Engineering, Supplier Quality, Regulatory Affairs, and Failure Analysis teams to resolve reliability issues.
Build Infrastructure: Develop and implement reliability testing infrastructure, including custom fixtures and automated test setups.
Champion Culture: Foster a data-driven reliability culture by mentoring engineers and promoting best practices in reliability engineering and statistical analysis.
Maintain Compliance: Ensure alignment with ISO 13485, FDA Quality System Regulations (21 CFR 820), and applicable regulatory standards.
EHS Alignment: Understand and adhere to the corporate Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) policy.

Working hours: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Skills:
ASQ CQE (Certified Quality Engineer) or CRE (Certified Reliability Engineer) certification.
Basic machine tool and manufacturing experience.

Education:
Bachelors

Experience:
7-10 years

Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor???s or Master???s degree in Engineering (e.g., Biomedical, Electrical, or Mechanical).
Experience: 5+ years of experience in the medical device industry (or an equivalent regulated industry) demonstrating dedicated reliability expertise.
Technical Domain: Strong background working with Capital Equipment, complex electromechanical systems, and embedded software devices.
Testing Expertise: Proven experience defining and executing Accelerated Life Testing (ALT), HALT/HASS, and reliability verification strategies.
Predictive Analysis: Experience performing reliability prediction analyses using established industry standards such as MIL-HDBK-217, Telcordia, and FIDES.
Software Skills: Ability to maintain automated testing frameworks using Python and C++ to execute tests.
Soft Skills: Strong analytical, problem-solving, and statistical analysis skills, with the communication clarity needed to influence cross-functional engineering teams.


Join us as a Reliability Quality Engineer! If you have the required engineering background and a passion for ensuring the quality of complex medical robotic systems, apply today to help us design, verify, and s

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