Reliability Engineer – Performance & Life-Cycle Assurance

Mach Industries is seeking a Reliability Engineer who will own the end-to-end reliability lifecycle for our UAS platforms, subsystems, and processes. In this role you will ensure that our systems meet reliability, maintainability, and operational life-expectancy targets in the context of mission-critical defense applications.

Requirements

• Develop, deploy and maintain a reliability program plan for our UAS platforms and key subsystems (hardware, firmware, software) following best-practices (e.g., failure-mode and effects analysis (FMEA)).
• Define reliability and maintainability requirements and metrics (e.g., MTBF, MTBR, availability, mission readiness, failure rate targets) early in the design lifecycle, and track performance through production and field operation.
• Using data (lab testing, manufacturing, field returns, in-service logs) perform analytics to identify trends, root causes of failures (RCFA), latent defects, and reliability risks—then drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Define and oversee reliability test plans, accelerated life testing, environmental stress screening, field-data analysis, degradation modelling and life-cycle modelling in collaboration with test & validation teams.
• Monitor key reliability indicators (e.g., failure-rate trending, early‐life failures, wear-out characteristics, maintenance cost per unit time/mission, parts-life forecasting) and provide actionable insights to leadership.
• Communicate reliability status, risk posture, and improvement plans to senior leadership and stakeholders, including interfacing with defense-customer reliability/quality requirements and audits if applicable.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Opportunities for professional development