Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer

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• You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
• You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper-growth environment.
• You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
• You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together, and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-caliber team that will encourage you to do your best.
• Work cross-functionally with partners in Hardware/Firmware Engineering, Operations, and Support to ensure our customers have a best-in-class product experience.
• Design in reliability through the product development process and own product reliability modeling, testing, and validation.
• Set reliability requirements and allocate reliability targets to subsystems.
• Lead product quality investigations in addition to root cause and corrective actions with internal cross-functional team members and external vendors.
• Evaluate and investigate defect trends that improve incoming material and outgoing product quality.
• Identify opportunities for corrective actions and continuous improvement through field failure investigations.
• Create feedback loops to continuously improve the products in the field and the next generation.
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices.
• MSc/PhD in Engineering, Material Science, Physics, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience working in a Hardware Reliability Engineer role.
• Experience with stress testing; fatigue testing, vibration, and shock testing, electrical stress, and environmental stress.
• Experience with failure analysis methodologies.
• Understanding the physics of failure and the application of stresses to underlying failure mechanisms.
• Experience with Design for Reliability concepts.
• Experience with JDM development model.
• Experience with third-party test oversight, and test execution.
• Self-motivated, proactive, creative and critical problem-solving capabilities.