Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer

Reliability Engineer

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

The Reliability Engineering team partners across Anduril's engineering, manufacturing, and operations organizations to ensure our autonomous systems survive real-world conditions and deliver consistent performance for our customers. Our mandate spans the complete product lifecycle - from early concept design through production scale-up and fielded operations. We use data, statistical methods, and engineering analysis to forecast how our systems will perform over time and influence design decisions, including part selection, redundancy strategies, and maintenance approaches. We establish tailored reliability frameworks by program and partner with Quality to drive design robustness, failure prevention, and rapid response to issues in the field.

We are seeking an experienced Reliability Engineer to join our team in Lexington, MA / Waltham, MA, driving reliability for our Imaging product line. This is a hands-on role focused on embedding reliability into early product architecture and detailed design - from early concept trade studies through design validation and transition to manufacturing. You'll be the reliability champion throughout the design and development process, working closely with mechanical, electrical, and software engineering teams to ensure designs are robust. Your responsibilities will include conducting reliability predictions and allocations during architecture trades, leading design FMEAs and fault tree analyses to identify and mitigate failure modes, developing and executing design verification test plans, performing stress-derating analysis and parts selection reviews, and assessing design changes for reliability impact throughout the development cycle. The right person for this role brings deep technical knowledge of hardware reliability and failure mechanisms, has practical experience on product development programs, and can engage credibly with design engineers and Anduril's subcontractors on technical details while maintaining focus on system-level reliability outcomes. This role demands someone who can embed early in design cycles, influence engineering decisions with data and analysis, and take ownership of reliability outcomes as designs mature from concept to launch readiness.

What You'll Do:

• Performing Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA) and Fault Detection/Fault Isolation (FDFI) analyses and collaborating cross-functionally to implement product improvements for reliability
• Performing predictive reliability analyses to forecast probability of field failures and MTTF/MTBF utilizing Anduril requirements, specifications and relevant industry standards (i.e. MIL-HDBK-217Plus).
• Developing Maintainability prediction models using MIL-HDBK-472 and support the development of Preventative Maintenance and Sparing Plans
• Developing and communicating RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) reports internally and to external parties
• Reviewing field failure data and performing Weibull analyses utilizing that data to determine gap to initial model in order to further fine tune and adjust it for further predictions
• Collaborate with HW teams and Failure Analysis (FA) labs to investigate the root causes of time-based failures and guide design iterations
• Track and model physical and functional degradation parameters (e.g., parameter drift, mechanical wear) over time to predict end-of-life thresholds before actual failures occur.
• Develop statistical models to project future warranty claims and field failure rates, providing data-driven risk assessments across various teams

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years experience in a hardware-focused Reliability Engineer role, Design/Development Engineer role or Quality Engineering role, with a strong emphasis on life data analysis.
• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Materials Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience or Familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-516C, and MIL-STD-1629
• Experience setting up a Reliability Engineering framework for a product or program, including support of production testing, field testing, data acquisition, and data analysis
• Expertise in reliability analysis techniques, including FMEA/FMECA, predictive modeling, Weibull analysis, and Fault Tree Analysis
• Familiarity with structured root-cause analysis and problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D, 5 Whys, Fishbone diagrams, Kepner-Tregoe) within a CAPA or FRACAS framework.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a US Security Clearance
• Design Review Experience (PDR, CDR, MRR) and confident in presentation skills across all levels of leadership

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. Degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Materials Science or a related technical field
• Experience with DO-254, DO-178, MIL-HDBK-217Plus, MIL-HDBK-472, ARP-4754
• Experience with HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing), HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), Environmental Testing, and/or Mechanical Testing
• Demonstrated experience with EO/IR systems

US Salary Range $166,000 —$220,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: