# Manager, Hardware Reliability Engineering

**Company:** [Motive](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/motive)
**Location:** Taipei, Taiwan
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Hardware Reliability, Reliability Testing, Accelerated Life Testing, Root-Cause Analysis, Fmea, Dfmea, Fracas, Weibull Analysis, Design Of Experiments, Fault-Tree Analysis, Reliability Prediction, Tolerance Analysis, Supplier Quality, Statistical Analysis, Iec 60068
**Posted:** 2026-09-10

> Leads hardware reliability strategy, lifecycle qualification, failure analysis, and quality improvements while building and managing a Taipei-based engineering team. Requires hardware reliability or quality experience, cross-functional leadership, and a technical engineering degree.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define the multi-quarter hardware reliability strategy, team goals, success metrics, ownership model, and operating cadence.
- Represent Hardware Reliability in design, launch, and leadership forums, translating ambiguous risks into actionable plans.
- Partner with Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Systems, Product, and Technical Program Management teams to define requirements, test plans, qualification coverage, and exit criteria.
- Lead failure-mode analysis, design-for-reliability reviews, reliability growth, and risk-based decisions from concept through sustaining.
- Connect design validation, manufacturing data, returns, support signals, and field failures to drive root-cause analysis, corrective actions, process-capability improvements, supplier quality, test coverage, and product robustness.
- Hire, coach, retain, and develop a high-performing reliability engineering team in Taipei.
- Establish scalable standards, documentation, review mechanisms, resource plans, and execution processes.
- Build partnerships across Taipei, San Francisco, India, and other global teams; align stakeholders on cost, schedule, quality, and reliability.
- Lead cross-functional reliability and quality initiatives across engineering, operations, manufacturing, and suppliers.
- Develop test plans and reliability requirements for NPI and ORT based on field conditions and use cases.
- Lead DFMEA reviews and collaborate with global teams and Taiwan-based suppliers to reduce design risks.
- Manage lab equipment calibration and resolve audit findings, nonconformances, and corrective actions.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in hardware reliability, product quality, validation, or systems engineering.
- Experience hiring, developing, and managing engineering reliability teams.
- Expertise in failure mechanisms, reliability testing, accelerated life testing, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and statistical tools.
- Experience taking products from concept through design verification, NPI, production ramp, and sustaining engineering.
- Experience working with contract manufacturers and component suppliers on qualification, process capability, and corrective actions.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with connected devices, automotive electronics, telematics, cameras, industrial equipment, consumer electronics, or products deployed in harsh environments.
- Familiarity with NUDD, FRACAS, FMEA, fault-tree analysis, reliability prediction, Weibull analysis, design of experiments, tolerance analysis, and reliability growth planning.
- Familiarity with IEC 60068, MIL-STD-810, ISO 16750, or automotive/customer-specific requirements.

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