Koch Industries - Rochester Hills, MI
posted 5 months ago
About the position
We are seeking a full-time Senior Reliability Engineer to join our team at either our Rochester Hills, Michigan, or Lisle, Illinois location. As a Senior Reliability and Validation Engineer, you will be part of a highly qualified team of engineers dedicated to delivering the best products and services to our customers. Your role will involve developing effective reliability and validation strategies while collaborating closely with experts in the field. In this position, you will be responsible for establishing clear reliability requirements during the product design phase by collaborating with stakeholders. You will interface with both internal teams and customers to align on reliability expectations and ensure that targets are met. Regular cross-functional team meetings will be hosted with Design, Test, and Simulation engineers to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve reliability issues throughout the product lifecycle. You will develop and communicate precise execution strategies and test instructions to the test labs for flawless validation. Creating reliability test plans for Automotive Sensors based on product design validation requirements will be a key part of your responsibilities. You will leverage methods such as binomial distribution for sample size estimation and stress life curves to correlate with field life. Additionally, you will take ownership of DVP&R across all design phases by overseeing testing and validation timelines and coordinating across labs. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be essential to ensure project reliability and validation milestones are met. You will track progress, manage risks, and communicate updates to stakeholders. Incorporating reliability methods such as accelerated life, degradation, and run-to-failure testing into test plans will be crucial to ensure products meet or exceed customer reliability and durability requirements. You will perform reliability analysis and risk assessments to identify potential failure modes and recommend remedial strategies. Furthermore, you will develop, maintain, and enhance reliability models for overall sensor systems, including Arrhenius, Weibull, and exponential distribution, to predict product reliability and estimate lifetime across different platforms or technologies. Specifics will include PCB, Passive and Active Components, and Mechanical Components. Analyzing test results, identifying trends, and reporting findings to relevant stakeholders will be part of your duties, along with producing comprehensive reliability reports, including failure analysis reports and failure rate predictions (i.e., FIT, MTTF).
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to establish clear reliability requirements during the product design phase.
- Interface with both internal teams and customers to align on reliability expectations and ensure targets are met.
- Host regular cross-functional team meetings with Design, Test, and Simulation engineers to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve reliability issues throughout the product lifecycle.
- Develop and communicate precise execution strategies and test instructions to the test labs for flawless validation.
- Create reliability test plans for Automotive Sensors based on product design validation requirements.
- Leverage methods like binomial distribution for sample size estimation and stress life curves to correlate with field life.
- Oversee testing and validation timelines and coordination across labs for DVP&R across all design phases.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project reliability & validation milestones are met.
- Track progress, manage risks, and communicate updates to stakeholders.
- Incorporate reliability methods into test plans to ensure products meet or exceed customer reliability and durability requirements.
- Perform reliability analysis and risk assessments to identify potential failure modes and recommend remedial strategies.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance reliability models for overall sensor systems to predict product reliability and estimate lifetime across different platforms or technologies.
- Analyze test results, identify trends, and report findings to relevant stakeholders.
- Produce comprehensive reliability reports, including failure analysis reports and failure rate predictions.
Requirements
- Min. bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering, physics, materials science or comparable.
- Min. 3 years relevant experience in reliability analysis, reliability prediction methods and accelerated life testing.
- Knowledge in Automotive Electronics Design and Validation (ex. ECU, Radar, Camera, LiDAR).
- Strong knowledge in Solder Joint and Printed Circuit reliability and testing requirements.
- Strong project management skills with ability to manage multiple projects.
- Knowledge of test and reliability Specifications & Standards like AEC, ISO, IEC, JIS, MIL.
- Knowledge of reliability engineering principles, tools and techniques, including FMEA, FTA, HALT and reliability modelling.
- Knowledge of reliability and data analysis tools such as Weibull++, Reliasoft & nCode, JMP or equivalent.
- A high degree of self-motivation, team player and strong problem-solving skills.
- Convincing communication skills/style towards customers and suppliers in English.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings accounts
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment (ADD) insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plan
- Paid vacation/time off
- Educational assistance
- Infertility assistance
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
