Staff Engineer, Reliability Test

What You'll Do

• Operate and continuously improve a world-class environmental test lab for electronics that includes HALT/HASS chambers, thermal-humidity chambers, vibration/shock equipment, and data acquisition equipment.
• Develop and implement lab procedures for use of environmental test equipment, test setup and tear down, data acquisition, and test reporting.
• Perform reliability tests on electronic products, including thermal cycling, temperature-humidity soaks, HALT, HASS, vibration, and shock testing.
• Develop lab best-practices, including automation of data acquisition, defining test plans, documenting test results, and management of tests.
• Manage procurement and maintenance of lab consumables, including instrumentation, adhesives, fasteners, and fixtures.
• Oversee the maintenance, organization, and safety of all laboratory equipment and work areas.
• Work with external laboratories to perform environmental tests as necessary.
• Educate stakeholders on environmental test best-practices to improve test plans and design-for-test practices.
• Stay current with industry trends, advancements, and best practices in all aspects of environmental testing and equipment.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with environmental testing, including temperature cycling, vibration, highly accelerated limit testing (HALT), and highly-accelerated stress screening (HASS).
• Candidate must be self-starting and come with a growth mindset, with excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Reliability Engineering.
• Proficiency in CAD modelling software, including ANSYS SpaceClaim, NX, or Solidworks.
• Knowledgeable in data acquisition equipment and instrumentation, including thermocouples, accelerometers, humidity sensors, and strain gauges.
• Familiarity with electronics (PCBs, PCBAs, electronic components) and moving mechanical assemblies. Knowledgeable in failure mechanisms including solder fatigue, intermetallic growth, conductive anodic filaments, tin whiskers, electromigration, and corrosion.
• Team-player with clear and concise written and oral communication skills.
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams to execute product design from concept to production.
• Experience with management of technical projects.
• Familiarity with relevant industry test standards, including IPC, JEDEC, MIL, and ASTM standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a reliability testing role, including temperature cycling, vibration, highly accelerated limit testing (HALT), and highly-accelerated stress screening (HASS).
• Familiarity with reliability concepts, including Weibull statistics, accelerated life test design, highly-accelerated limit testing (HALT), and highly-accelerated stress screening (HASS).
• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Reliability Engineering.
• Prior experience managing an environmental test lab.
• Familiarity with PCB fabrication, SMT, and polymerics application manufacturing processes.
• Proficiency in FEA modelling software, including ANSYS Mechanical, Siemens Simcenter, or Abaqus.
• Proficiency in Python, including NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Plotly, and Matplotlib.