About the role:
Samsaras Hardware Reliability team enables an exceptional customer experience by enabling reliable hardware identifying opportunities in product performance and engaging cross-functionally to resolve key issues. Samsaras Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer will design quality processes that guarantee the high-quality standards of Samsaras hardware.
The Reliability engineer is responsible for implementing and executing comprehensive reliability strategies/plans that span the entire product development lifecycle from concept to warranty repair. The Reliability engineer quickly aggregates and analyzes test field performance and manufacturing data to drive actions internally and with our suppliers to ensure that we are building the highest quality product. Cross-functional collaboration with hardware firmware and operations is an essential part of the role.
This is a hybrid position open to candidates residing in the US requiring to visit our office in San Francisco 3 times a week.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impacthelping to keep the lights on get food into grocery stores reduce emissions and most importantly ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work this role wont be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- Youre energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara we win together celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role you will:
- Work cross-functionally with partners in Hardware/Firmware Engineering Operations and Support to ensure our customers have a best-in-class product experience.
- Design in reliability through the product development process and own product reliability modeling testing and validation.
- Set reliability requirements and allocate reliability targets to subsystems.
- Lead product quality investigations in addition to root cause and corrective actions with internal cross-functional team members and external vendors.
- Evaluate and investigate defect trends that improve incoming material and outgoing product quality.
- Identify opportunities for corrective actions and continuous improvement through field failure investigations.
- Create feedback loops to continuously improve the products in the field and the next generation.
- Champion role model and embed Samsaras cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success Build for the Long Term Adopt a Growth Mindset Be Inclusive Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
Minimum requirements for the role:
- MSc/PhD in Engineering Material Science Physics or related field.
- Experience with stress testing; fatigue testing vibration and shock testing electrical stress and environmental stress.
- Experience with failure analysis methodologies.
- Understanding the physics of failure and the application of stresses to underlying failure mechanisms.
- Experience with Design for Reliability concepts.
- Experience with hardware reliability tests third-party test oversight and test execution.
- Self-motivated proactive creative and critical problem-solving capabilities.
Required Experience:
Senior IC