💼 About This Role

You'll establish and lead AeroVect's reliability engineering practice for our autonomous tractor fleet, ensuring uptime and durability in 24/7 airport operations. You'll run reliability analyses across mechanical, electrical, and systems domains, and own processes that translate findings into product improvements. This high-ownership role lets you build a scalable reliability practice as an individual contributor and thought leader.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Establish reliability engineering practice, defining processes, metrics, and tooling.
• Lead FMEA, FTA, and RBD activities across mechanical, electrical, and embedded systems.
• Define and track reliability metrics including MTBF, MTTR, and field failure rates.
• Analyze field failure data to identify root causes and drive corrective actions.

📋 Requirements

• 5–8 years of hands-on reliability engineering experience in hardware-centric industry.
• Deep expertise in FMEA, FTA, and RBD on complex electromechanical systems.
• Experience defining and managing environmental and accelerated life testing programs.
• Ability to work across mechanical, electrical, and embedded systems domains.

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with autonomous vehicles, mobile robots, or airport GSE.
• Familiarity with standards like MIL-STD-810, IEC 60068, ISO 26262, ARP4761.
• Experience building a reliability practice from scratch at a startup.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
• 💰 Equity
• 🏥 Health insurance
• 🚗 Occasional travel to Atlanta

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical Interview· 60 min
3. 3Onsite Interview· 3 hours