# Staff Engineer, System Reliability

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** Dallas, TX
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $140k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Reliability Modeling, Fault Tree Analysis, Fmeca, Mtbf, Ram Modeling, Weibull Analysis, Relyence, Reliasoft, Fracas, Hass, Ess, Mil-Hdbk-217, Mil-Std-756, Root Cause Analysis, Reliability Growth
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Own reliability modeling and failure-prediction strategy for the V-BAT unmanned aircraft system, using field and test data to guide design, production, testing, and sustainment decisions. Requires a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of reliability engineering experience, with expertise in FTA, FMECA, and MTBF.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the V-BAT unmanned aircraft system reliability model using field and industry failure-rate data.
- Create and maintain system fault trees, identify single points of failure, and quantify their contribution to system reliability.
- Provide Design-for-Reliability guidance and inform design decisions that improve system reliability.
- Partner with Design, Fleet Support, Quality, and Manufacturing Engineering on field-failure root cause investigations and corrective and preventive actions.
- Drive reliability test campaigns in production and sustainment, feeding results back into reliability predictions.
- Lead production reliability screening campaigns, including HASS and ESS, to reduce infant-mortality failures.
- Establish and track MTBF, failure-rate, and reliability-growth metrics; communicate reliability status and risk to program leadership.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, or statistics.
- 5+ years of reliability or surety engineering experience in a high-consequence industry such as defense, aerospace, automotive, or medical devices.
- Expertise in Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and MTBF calculations.
- Experience building reliability models from field and test data and translating them into design and production decisions.

## Nice-to-haves
- Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) modeling and Weibull analysis.
- Reliability analysis software such as Relyence, ReliaSoft, Weibull++, or Windchill Risk & Reliability.
- Familiarity with MIL-HDBK-217, 217Plus, and MIL-STD-756.
- Experience implementing FRACAS and supporting Failure Review Boards.
- ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) certification.
- Experience with unmanned aircraft, aerospace, or other mission-critical hardware systems.

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