Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, plan, and lead hardware reliability strategies for wearable electronics.
• Serve as the technical authority for reliability test methods, standards, and practices.
• Execute and oversee mechanical stress and environmental tests at component and system levels.
• Drive failure analysis and root-cause investigations, collaborating with design, quality, and manufacturing teams on corrective actions.
• Develop new reliability test methods to validate innovative hardware features and next-generation products.
• Create and maintain test plans, procedures, and processes, coordinating with contracted labs and CMs.
• Provide data-driven reports, insights, and recommendations to leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Partner with hardware, firmware, test engineering, and CM teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Guide and mentor CM engineers and operators to build high-performing reliability capabilities in the labs.

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years of hardware reliability engineering experience in consumer electronics.
• Proven success in designing and executing end-to-end reliability testing programs.
• Expertise in mechanical stress tests, environmental reliability, and system/component-level testing.
• Strong failure analysis and debugging skills with an analytical mindset.
• Ability to design and implement new test protocols for innovative products.
• Familiarity with industry reliability standards and regulatory requirements.
• Experience managing contracted testing and external lab partnerships.
• Proactive, collaborative working style with a strong drive for results.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.