Reliability Engineer, Fitbit

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Minimum qualifications:

• Master’s in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of reliability engineering experience in consumer product
• Experience with accelerated life testing theory and methods (development, planning, and execution)
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing and qualifying high complexity, high volume consumer hardware products with various modules
• Knowledge of Failure analysis and Data Analysis
• Understand full-breadth of hardware reliability with understanding of two or more consumer electronics reliability disciplines: display, sealing, connector, plastic, PCBA, materials, etc.
• Ability and commitment to produce a timely and highly accurate work product
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills, coupled with a well-focused attention to detail
• Exceptional communication and problem solving skills
  
  

About The Job

Google’s custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable. In the R&D lab, you design test equipment for prototypes of our machinery and develop the protocols used to scale these tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you give input on designs to improve our hardware until you’re sure it meets Google’s standards of quality and reliability.

With your technical expertise, you create test plans for highly complex platforms (e.g., validating the interaction of multiple pieces of equipment at the networking and subsystem levels), and using your deep knowledge of component design characteristics, you diagnose highly complex hardware or software issues.

Fitbit Reliability team contributes to all stages of the product life cycle with a goal to address potential reliability issues, identify and detect weakness early, and provide risk assessment. As a Reliability Engineer, you will be a core member of the Reliability/Failure Analysis team. In this visible and critical role, you will work closely with Design, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and executive leadership to bring your knowledge to robust products.

Fitbit’s diverse line of innovative products of smartwatches, trackers and smart scale help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their health and fitness goals. Our products deliver personalized experiences, insights and guidance through leading software and interactive tools to support our users’ health and wellness. Partnering with Google will expand our resources and global platform, and we will be able to accelerate innovation in the wearables category to scale faster, and make health even more accessible to everyone.

Responsibilities

• Represent reliability engineering to cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations, and Quality).
• Act as tech lead for projects of moderate complexity and impact, manage project priorities and technical resources.
• Lead hardware risks analysis, and specify test qualification plans including requirements in the early stages of product development.
• Drive activity across different functions to find root cause providing faster time to effective corrective actions.
• Define product usage model, develop reliability test specification, enhance test coverage to detect potential risk at earlier phase and estimate AFR (Annual Failure Rate).
  
  

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