Sr. Systems Reliability Engineer

Accountabilities:

You will own reliability and maintainability engineering activities from system design through testing, production, and sustainment, ensuring that reliability requirements are defined, verified, and continuously improved.

• Develop and maintain R&M program plans, reliability architecture documentation, and RAM-C (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability-Cost) Rationale Reports.

• Lead Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMEA/FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) development across system architectures.

• Allocate reliability and maintainability requirements to lower-level systems and components, support trade studies, and maintain traceability between requirements, predictions, and demonstrated performance.

• Produce reliability predictions using MIL-HDBK-217 and related methodologies, alongside maintainability analyses, Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM), Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), and testability/Built-In Test (BIT) assessments.

• Establish and manage the Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS), ensuring effective failure tracking, data trending, root cause investigations, and corrective action closure.

• Develop failure definitions and scoring criteria, reliability test plans, and reliability growth strategies, including demonstration testing, Environmental Stress Screening (ESS), and HALT/HASS where applicable.

• Support qualification test planning, all-up-round testing, and reliability assessments for ground, flight, and live-fire testing.

• Prepare R&M standards, specifications, procedures, technical reports, and user documentation.

• Serve as the primary customer contact for R&M matters, presenting analyses, risk assessments, and program updates during milestone and design reviews, including PDR, CDR, TRR, PRR, and Milestone A/B/C reviews.

• Lead Reliability Scoring Conferences and Corrective Action Boards, coordinate customer data deliverables, and support In-Service Reviews.

• Coordinate reliability risk mitigation with Manufacturing Engineering, Logistics, Quality, and System Safety teams, including obsolescence, DMSMS, shelf-life, and aging surveillance considerations.

• Apply digital engineering and AI-enabled solutions, such as predictive maintenance, digital twins, and automated FRACAS analytics, to improve reliability processes and outcomes.

• Ensure compliance with applicable R&M standards, including MIL-STD-785, MIL-HDBK-217, and GEIA-STD-0009, while incorporating lessons learned and continuous improvement practices.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate combines extensive reliability engineering expertise with strong systems thinking, analytical capabilities, technical writing skills, and the confidence to engage with customers on complex engineering topics.

• At least 7 years of experience as a Reliability Engineer, R&M Engineer, or in an equivalent reliability-critical engineering role.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems, or Electrical Engineering, or Physics.

• Strong knowledge of MIL-STD-785, MIL-HDBK-217, and other relevant reliability and maintainability standards.

• Proven experience managing FRACAS processes, including failure tracking, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation.

• Demonstrated experience developing and executing reliability test plans, including reliability growth testing, demonstration testing, and Environmental Stress Screening.

• Experience working directly with customers during R&M reviews, design reviews, and program milestone reviews, particularly PDR, CDR, and Milestone B/C.

• Strong understanding of system architecture and the decomposition and allocation of R&M requirements.

• Extensive practical experience with FMEA/FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, and Reliability Block Diagrams.

• Proven ability to investigate failures, implement corrective actions, and analyze reliability data and performance trends.

• Excellent technical writing and presentation skills, including experience preparing program plans, rationale reports, procedures, and technical documentation.

• U.S. citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in engineering or a related discipline.

• 10 or more years of progressive reliability and maintainability engineering experience.

• ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) certification or equivalent.

• Experience supporting Department of Defense or Navy R&M programs, including alignment with SECNAV Reliability and Maintainability Engineering guidance.

• Knowledge of quantitative reliability growth modeling, such as Crow-AMSAA, and Weibull analysis.

• Experience with maintainability, testability/BIT, LORA, and RCM.

• Background in missile, hypersonic, or munitions systems, including all-up-round reliability, environmental stress screening, and shelf-life or stockpile surveillance programs.

• Familiarity with digital engineering and AI-enabled R&M tools, including predictive maintenance, digital twins, and automated FRACAS analytics.

• Active U.S. security clearance or the ability to obtain one.

Benefits:

• Annual salary range of $148,000–$219,000, depending on level and qualifications:

  • Level IV: $148,000–$180,000.

  • Level V: $180,000–$219,000.

  • Competitive total compensation package.

  • Comprehensive benefits options, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and additional coverage.

  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.

  • Three weeks of paid time off annually.

  • 40 hours of sick leave.

  • 12 company holidays each year.

  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

  • An innovative, collaborative engineering environment focused on advanced aerospace and defense technologies.

  • Work arrangement may be remote or based at one of the company's locations in the United States.