Accuray
Reliability Engineer
Madison, WI · Director
Work authorization requiredDetected 31 days ago
Systems EngineeringControlsLoad TestingTest AutomationCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- Make your mark in the fight against cancer.
- Our radiation therapy for cancer makes treatment shorter, safer, personalized and more effective, ultimately enabling patients to live longer, better lives.
- REPORTING TO/DEPARTMENT: Reports to the Sr.
Responsibilities
- Translate user and system-level objectives into system and project-specific reliability plans; provide guidance to subsystem and component owners to create similar plans at those levels.
- Employ tools to identify and prioritize design risks and define mitigations to eliminate or reduce those risks as early as possible in the development cycle; tools include but are not limited to FMEAs, usage definition, evaluation with respect to anticipated stresses, and field data analysis.
- Identify design analysis and other (non-test-based) strategies to mitigate design risks and enable requirement verification; applicable tools include but are not limited to de-rating, reliability prediction, modeling, and finite element analysis.
- Provide guidance on test strategies to achieve reliability objectives, not limited to but including reliability growth testing (e.g. HALT/step stress testing), mitigation of design risks (e.g. environmental testing), and reliability demonstration testing.
- Identify and work with cross-functional teams to implement process changes to drive reliability into existing processes and create new processes, when necessary; promote use of reliability best practices within and beyond product development based on external input not limited to but including standards and industry best practices.
- Support functional and project managers in establishing and updating project milestones and schedules as well as evaluating engineering technologies and tools.
- Accuray develops, manufactures and sells radiotherapy systems for alternative cancer treatments.
Requirements
- An advanced technical degree or certification in the field of Reliability Engineering.
- Experience with reliability analysis software.
- Experience in application of statistical methods.
- Knowledge of reliability tools such as FMEA, Weibull Analysis, Reliability Allocation and Prediction, De-rating, Root Cause Analysis, Ishikawa Diagrams, Pareto Analysis, DOE, and accelerated testing.
- Experience in application of reliability methodologies across the product development cycle.
- Experience in software-based test automation including Python.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Physics and at least 5 years of design and development or reliability in a highly regulated industry.
- Hands-on experience with electronic test equipment and software.
- Ability to organize and coordinate technical tasks for other engineers.
- To qualify for this position, candidates must be able to furnish proof that they are authorized to work in the country they are applying on a permanent basis without sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Preferred or Desired:
Skills
- Reports to the Sr.
- Director of Electromechanical Systems in the Electromechanical Engineering department.
Company info
- At Accuray, we make a direct and powerful impact on the lives of cancer patients every day - helping them live longer, better lives.
Visa & Work Authorization
- To qualify for this position, candidates must be able to furnish proof that they are authorized to work in the country they are applying on a permanent basis without sponsorship.
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