Principal Reliability Engineer

Radar Reinvented.

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 $145,300 - $217,900 annually.

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:

• Pre-IPO Stock Options
• 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
• 401(k) plan
• 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.