This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Reliability Engineer - Embedded Products based in Canada.
This role will shape the reliability strategy for critical embedded and software products used across modern transmission and distribution networks. You will lead reliability initiatives throughout the product lifecycle, from early design and validation through deployment and long-term field performance. The position combines systems thinking, data-driven analysis, and hands-on reliability engineering across protection relays, control devices, digital substations, and utility software. You will work closely with engineering, software, product, field, and customer teams to identify risks and improve product resilience. Your expertise will help utilities increase uptime, reduce lifecycle costs, strengthen compliance, and operate critical infrastructure more safely. This is an opportunity to influence product design, emerging technologies, and industry practices in a rapidly evolving energy environment.
Accountabilities
- Develop and implement reliability strategies across the lifecycle of embedded hardware and software products used in transmission and distribution applications.
- Perform reliability modeling, statistical analysis, and predictive assessments to evaluate field performance and inform product design and engineering decisions.
- Develop and execute reliability test strategies, including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), environmental, stress, and other validation testing for grid automation components.
- Lead FMEA, FMECA, root cause analysis, and failure investigations across hardware, software, embedded systems, and communication layers.
- Partner with product design, systems engineering, and software teams to integrate Design for Reliability principles from concept development through deployment.
- Analyze field data from deployed protection relays, RTUs, control systems, and other grid devices to identify systemic issues and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
- Collaborate directly with utilities and customers on asset performance, reliability improvement, and grid modernization initiatives, including digital substations, IEC 61850, virtualization, and advanced diagnostics.
- Establish and maintain product reliability KPIs such as MTBF, FIT rates, availability, and other indicators, integrating them into product development and quality programs.
- Identify opportunities to implement predictive and condition-based maintenance strategies using remote diagnostics, SCADA, sensor data, and other sources of operational intelligence.
- Work with innovation and applications teams to ensure reliability priorities inform technology strategies, industry working groups, standards development, and future product initiatives.
- Monitor regulatory, industry, and cybersecurity requirements affecting the reliability of utility assets and critical infrastructure, including relevant NERC, IEEE, and IEC standards.
- Provide technical coaching, training, and guidance on reliability engineering practices to internal engineering teams and external stakeholders.
- Promote continuous improvement and reliability-focused decision-making across multidisciplinary teams.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited institution.
- Extensive professional experience in reliability engineering, systems engineering, product engineering, or a closely related discipline within the energy or utility sector.
- Strong understanding of protection and control systems, grid-edge devices, substation automation, and utility-grade embedded or software solutions.
- Hands-on experience with reliability engineering methodologies, tools, and standards such as ReliaSoft, ISO 9001, ISO 55000, and IEC 61025.
- Familiarity with transmission and distribution communication protocols and standards, including IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, and IEEE C37.118.
- Strong analytical and statistical capabilities, with experience using data analysis tools such as Python, R, Minitab, or Power BI.
- Demonstrated experience with reliability modeling, failure analysis, FMEA/FMECA, root cause analysis, and reliability testing.
- Familiarity with model-based design and hardware-in-the-loop testing, including technologies such as RTDS, PSCAD, or EMTP.
- Strong understanding of reliability challenges across transmission and distribution environments and critical infrastructure.
- Experience working directly with utilities on product deployments, failure investigations, asset performance programs, or reliability strategies.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity risks and reliability considerations affecting critical energy infrastructure.
- Strong systems-thinking, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, field personnel, and utility customers.
- Demonstrated ability to lead collaboratively across engineering, software, product, field, and customer-facing teams.
- Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement, emerging technologies, and long-term product health.
- Master's degree in Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field is an asset.
- Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) certification or equivalent professional certification is an asset.
Benefits:
- Annual salary range of $162,900–$244,300 CAD.
- Compensation may vary based on experience, education, skills, and other relevant factors.
- Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus.
- Opportunity to influence the reliability and resilience of critical grid infrastructure.
- Work with advanced technologies including digital substations, virtualized grid controls, and AI-driven diagnostics.
- Cross-functional exposure across engineering, software, product development, field operations, innovation, and utility customers.
- Opportunity to contribute to industry standards and emerging grid modernization strategies.
- Culture focused on ownership, innovation, continuous improvement, and meaningful technical impact.
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