Principal Reliability Engineer

Echodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).

Echodyne is seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer to join our fast-growing team.

At Echodyne, we believe radar makes the world safer and more secure in the age of autonomy. We are seeking a Principal Reliability Engineer to join our team designing and manufacturing high-performance radar products.

RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring our products perform reliably over their service life. You will work as a member of the concurrent engineering team to ensure reliability is designed into the product through appropriate selection of materials, assembly processes, and design features. You will apply Design for Excellence (DfX) principles, your experience, and analytical skills to identify critical to reliability design requirements, assess reliability performance, and verify reliable performance by developing and executing reliability test plans.

You will also contribute to the continuous improvement of our products by applying your knowledge of physics of failure and skills in physical failure analysis to determine root causes of observed failure modes, develop corrective actions, and verify their effectiveness.

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

Experience with reliability engineering, physics of failure, and physical failure analysis of materials and components used in electronic equipment:
Electrical Printed Circuit Board Assemblies, including digital, analog, mixed signal, and RF circuits
Semiconductor components including bare-die flip-chip SMT or organic and ceramic packaged QFN and BGA components
Mechanical components and assemblies
Experience applying DFMEA methodology to identify and assess potential failure modes in designs
Experience developing and interpreting the results of accelerated life testing methods including
Thermal exposure/cycling
Humidity exposure/cycling
Shock and vibe
Experience applying and interpreting the output of analytical tools and methods to predict mechanical failure modes such as yield, stress fracture, and fatigue fracture
Data analysis skills using JMP, Minitab, Python, R, or similar tools
Experience performing physical failure analysis of electrical and mechanical components and assemblies using destructive and/or non-destructive methods such as:

Microscopy (Optical, X-ray, Scanning Acoustic or Scanning Electron)

Cross-sectioning

Dye and Pry

DESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• (Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills)
• Experience with standards-based environmental and reliability testing methods, such as MIL-STD 810
• Experience specifying or designing reliability test fixtures and tools
• Experience with reliability modeling tools such as Reliasoft, Weibull++, BlockSim, or similar
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing design for reliability outcomes.

QUALIFICATIONS

MS Degree or higher in Physics or Engineering discipline related to reliability engineering

7 or more years of experience in reliability engineering for electronic product development and/or test engineering

Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S.

WHAT WE OFFER

• The pay range for this position is $164,594 - $246,788 annually.
• This is an exempt position.
• If your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!

We offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including

RSU (Restricted Stock Units)

Generous Benefits

Fully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you

Choice of PPO or HDHP/HSA

Virtual Care – 98Point6

Employee Assistance Program

Mental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)

Travel Assistance Insurance

Company Paid Life Insurance

Company Paid Short & Long Term Disability

• Flexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)
• 401(k) match

Pet Insurance

Prepaid Legal Program

Commuter Benefits

Paid Company Holidays

All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.