# Reliability Test Engineer

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Salary:** $120k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Environmental Testing, Halt, Hass, Thermal Cycling, Vibration Testing, Shock Testing, CAD, Ansys Spaceclaim, Nx, Solidworks, Data Acquisition, Python, NumPy, pandas, Scipy
**Posted:** 2026-08-24

> Conducts environmental reliability testing for electronic flight hardware, from test-plan development and fixture design through instrumentation, equipment operation, failure investigation, and reporting. Requires hands-on environmental testing experience, engineering education, CAD and data-acquisition expertise, with Python and FEA experience preferred.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Operate and continuously improve an environmental test lab for electronics, including HALT/HASS chambers, thermal-humidity chambers, vibration/shock equipment, and data acquisition systems.
- Develop lab procedures for environmental test equipment, test setup and teardown, data acquisition, and reporting.
- Perform thermal cycling, temperature-humidity soaks, HALT, HASS, vibration, and shock testing on electronic products.
- Define test plans, including stress profiles, sample sizes, and pass/fail criteria.
- Design and model test fixtures in CAD; instrument hardware with thermocouples, accelerometers, strain gauges, and humidity sensors.
- Configure data acquisition systems, program and load environmental chambers, operate equipment, and monitor and investigate failures.
- Automate data acquisition, document results, and create plots and visualizations for qualification and disposition decisions.
- Manage equipment scheduling, lab consumables, instrumentation, adhesives, fasteners, fixtures, maintenance, organization, and safety.
- Coordinate with external laboratories as needed and educate stakeholders on environmental testing and design-for-test practices.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams from product concept through production and manage technical projects.

## Requirements
- 2+ years of experience with environmental testing, including temperature cycling, vibration, HALT, and HASS.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Reliability Engineering.
- Proficiency with CAD modeling software such as ANSYS SpaceClaim, NX, or SolidWorks.
- Knowledge of data acquisition equipment and instrumentation, including thermocouples, accelerometers, humidity sensors, and strain gauges.
- Familiarity with electronics, including PCBs, PCBAs, electronic components, and moving mechanical assemblies.
- Knowledge of failure mechanisms including solder fatigue, intermetallic growth, conductive anodic filaments, tin whiskers, electromigration, and corrosion.
- Experience working with interdisciplinary product design teams and managing technical projects.
- Familiarity with IPC, JEDEC, MIL, and ASTM test standards.
- Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, and written and verbal communication skills.

## Nice-to-Haves
- 5+ years of experience in reliability testing.
- Familiarity with Weibull statistics, accelerated life test design, HALT, and HASS.
- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Reliability Engineering.
- Experience managing an environmental test lab.
- Familiarity with PCB fabrication, SMT, and polymerics application manufacturing processes.
- Proficiency with FEA software such as ANSYS Mechanical, Siemens Simcenter, or Abaqus.
- Proficiency in Python, including NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, Plotly, and Matplotlib.

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