AeroVect
Senior Reliability Engineer
South San Francisco - Hybrid · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 70 days ago
Data AnalysisEmbedded SystemsMIL-STDRoboticsLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- For more information, visit www.aerovect.com http://www.aerovect.com.
Responsibilities
- This role will require occasional travel to Atlanta (ATL) to support field operations and testing.
- Establish AeroVect's reliability engineering practice, including defining processes, metrics and tooling for tracking and improving fleet reliability from design through field deployment.
- Lead failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA) and reliability block diagram (RBD) activities across mechanical, electrical and embedded systems.
- Analyze field failure data from our deployed fleet to identify root causes, prioritize corrective actions, and close the loop between field observations and design improvements.
- Partner with hardware engineers during the design phase to conduct design reviews with a reliability lens, provide DFR input, and identify failure risks before they reach production.
- Develop and maintain reliability requirements for new hardware programs and vehicle platforms, ensuring traceability from system requirements to component-level specifications.
- Support supplier qualification activities by defining reliability acceptance criteria and reviewing vendor test data and qualification reports.
- Build and maintain reliability documentation including test plans, analysis reports, reliability growth tracking and lessons-learned databases.
- Comfort working as the sole reliability practitioner at a company, with the ability to prioritize and build a program incrementally rather than inheriting an established one.
- Strong data analysis skills and experience working with field failure data to drive engineering decisions.
Requirements
- Experience with autonomous vehicles, mobile robots or aviation and airport ground support equipment.
- Experience with reliability growth modeling and Weibull analysis tools.
Benefits
- Define and track reliability metrics including MTBF, MTTR and field failure rates; build dashboards and reporting structures to give engineering and leadership visibility into fleet health.
Company info
- AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world's largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit www.aerovect.com http://www.aerovect.com.
- We are looking for a Senior Reliability Engineer to establish and lead AeroVect's reliability engineering practice.
- As our first reliability engineer, you will build the analytical foundation that ensures our autonomous tractor fleet meets the uptime and durability requirements of 24/7 airport operations. You will run reliability analyses across mechanical, electrical and systems domains - from early design stages through field deployment - and own the processes that translate those findings into measurable product improvements. You will also manage relationships with external test labs and certification partners, running environmental, mechanical and accelerated life testing programs to validate hardware before it reaches the ramp.
- This is a high-ownership role for an engineer who can work as an individual contributor and thought leader, partnering deeply with hardware, systems and field engineering teams while building a reliability practice that scales with the company.
- AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations.
- We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving.
- Our customers include some of the world's largest airlines and ground handling providers.
- As our first reliability engineer, you will build the analytical foundation that ensures our autonomous tractor fleet meets the uptime and durability requirements of 24/7 airport operations.
- You will run reliability analyses across mechanical, electrical and systems domains - from early design stages through field deployment - and own the processes that translate those findings into measurable product improvements.
- You will also manage relationships with external test labs and certification partners, running environmental, mechanical and accelerated life testing programs to validate hardware before it reaches the ramp.
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