Senior Reliability Engineer, Maritime

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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Anduril's Surface Maritime team is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to join our team. The Senior Reliability Engineer will work with our broader Engineering team to ensure our products operate and meet all mission performance, environmental conditions, and customer requirements.
ABOUT THE JOB

As a Senior Reliability Engineer at Anduril, you will work within the organization to support new product development, define and execute processes for continuous improvement and risk buy down, and lead root cause and corrective action efforts throughout the new product development life cycle to ensure a smooth hand off to production. You will then support field performance monitoring and track trends/lessons learned to recommend improvements to upstream teams. The right person for this role has knowledge of design, development, test, analysis, manufacturing, operations, asset tracking and maintenance, and continuous improvement. If you are someone who has hands-on experience throughout the entire new product development life cycle from concept to customer delivery, loves to build world-class Reliability processes, work with many multi disciplinary teams, and be accountable for results, then this role is for you.
WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Support Design & Development Engineers in requirements documentation, redundancy evaluation, and proactive design reliability liaising to ensure compliance against Anduril's design standards.
• Support and review system block diagrams, interface control documents, and fluid and electrical schematics for compliance, redundancy, and accuracy against requirements and concept of operations.
• Support design & development engineers as a critical partner to identify risk as early as possible through tools such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Physics of Failure Methodologies, and Analysis + Test Data Reviews in R&D, then coordinate mitigation action plans to proactively lead the design reliability effort for your assigned product or product area to ensure risk landscape is under control.
• Support development milestone reviews such as Drawing Reviews, PDR, CDR, QDR, and support the production hand off process with Quality Engineering.
• Lead, draft, and tailor R&D test and qualification test top level campaign plans with support from the Chief Engineer and design and test engineer(s).
• Lead and manage the qualification & traceability matrix alongside Requirements and FMEA documentation.
• Lead and drive root cause analysis and corrective action for issues found during R&D and qualification testing alongside the development, quality and test engineering teams.
• Lead FMECA (Failure Mode and Effects Criticality Analysis) evaluations and calculations, as well as updated RPN scoring post mitigation for the FMEA to support predictive analysis.
• Perform predictive reliability analysis to calculate probability of loss of control, loss of asset, and MTBF utilizing Anduril requirements, specifications, and COTS specifications alongside the FMEA and FMECA.
• Lead product end-to-end plans from component receiving through field deployment. Liaison with Quality Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering to ensure all inspection and acceptance test gates and requirements are in place and documented into a clear process.
• Develop, draft, and implement reliability processes for the business to improve and streamline our Design, Manufacturing, and Deployment Operations efforts for rapid development.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 5-8 years industry experience as a Reliability Engineer, Design Engineer, or Test Engineer
• B.S. Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience with industrial Reliability Engineering
• Experience setting up the Reliability Engineering initial framework for a product
• Front End Design Reliability Experience
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with root cause analysis methodologies, corrective action management, and risk management
• Experience or familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-HDBK-217, and MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-516C, and DOD RAM Guide
• M.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineer, Systems Engineering, or related field
• Experience with Analysis tools such as FEA, CFD, GFSSP
• Experience with Reliability modeling, predictive analysis, and Weibull analysis
• Experience with SQL, Polarion, Cameo, Relyence, Teamcenter, JIRA software suites
• Experience with risk management, change control/change management reviews, and software/firmware HITL/SITL
• Modeling/CAD Experience or Familiarity
• Test Plan Development, fixture design, test set-up, and hands on test execution experience
• HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing), HASS (Highly Accelerated Stress Screening), Environmental Testing, and/or Mechanical Loads Testing Experience, environmental test experience, and functional test experience.
• Autonomous Operations Experience
• Technical writing experience developing standards, specifications, user guides, and policies
• Requirements drafting experience for Software & Hardware

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:

Healthcare Benefits

• US Roles: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans at little to no cost to you.
• UK & AUS Roles: We cover full cost of medical insurance premiums for you and your dependents.
• IE Roles: We offer an annual contribution toward your private health insurance for you and your dependents.

Additional Benefits

• Income Protection: Anduril covers life and disability insurance for all employees.
• Generous time off: Highly competitive PTO plans with a holiday hiatus in December. Caregiver & Wellness Leave is available to care for family members, bond with a new baby, or address your own medical needs.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support: Coverage for fertility treatments (e.g., IVF, preservation), adoption, and gestational carriers, along with resources to support you and your partner from planning to parenting.
• Mental Health Resources: Access free mental health resources 24/7, including therapy and life coaching. Additional work-life services, such as legal and financial support, are also available.
• Professional Development: Annual reimbursement for professional development
• Commuter Benefits: Company-funded commuter benefits based on your region.
• Relocation Assistance: Available depending on role eligibility.

Retirement Savings Plan

• US Roles: Traditional 401(k), Roth, and after-tax (mega backdoor Roth) options.
• UK & IE Roles: Pension plan with employer match.
• AUS Roles: Superannuation plan.

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