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Senior Reliability Design Engineer

Senior Reliability Design Engineer

An experienced Senior Reliability & Robust Design Engineer to lead reliability engineering activities for next-generation PCCT hardware development. The role is responsible for driving Design for Reliability (DfR), Design for Robustness (DfX), risk-based engineering, and life-cycle performance optimization throughout the product development process.

Your role:

• Define and deploy Design for Reliability (DfR) methodology throughout product development.

• Establish reliability requirements and reliability growth plans.

• Develop reliability predictions, reliability allocation models and reliability target flowdown.

• Lead reliability reviews from concept through commercialization.

• Drive reliability risk identification and mitigation activities.

• Apply robust design methodologies to reduce sensitivity to manufacturing variation, environmental stress, and component tolerances.

• Develop design margins and derating strategies.

• Ensure adequate robustness against thermal, mechanical, electrical, and operational stresses.

• Promote first-time-right design philosophy.

• Define reliability verification strategy, reliability testing plan, establish reliability demonstration tests.

• Drive root cause investigations for failures identified during testing by leveraging relevant tools, i.e., Weibull, failure tree analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, DOE, etc.

You're the right fit if:

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.

• 10+ years of engineering experience.

• 5+ years leading reliability engineering activities for complex hardware products (CT, MR, X-ray, Radiotherapy).

• Demonstrated success implementing Design for Reliability and Robust Design methodologies in new product development cycle.

• Ability to influence design decisions and drive reliability improvements across global cross-functional teams.

• Working knowledge of ISO13485, EU MDR, FDA 21 CFR, ISO14971.

• Strong and practical knowledge of DFMEA, problem solving, Design For Six Sigma (GB/BB) certified candidates is preferred.

• Good English communication skills (both verbal and written) required.

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