# Reliability Engineer, R&D

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $203k – $232k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** reliability engineering, availability modeling, fmea, ram modeling, weibull analysis, failure rate analysis, redundancy analysis, field data analysis, maintenance strategy
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Own reliability engineering for AI data center reference designs. Build RAM models, run cross-discipline FMEAs, analyze field failures, and drive design changes for high-availability infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
Own reliability engineering for the reference design: availability modeled, weak points found, and fixes engineered before deployment.
Build the RAM models: failure rates, redundancy, and maintainability quantified per configuration.
Run FMEAs across disciplines: failure modes cataloged and designed out with the engineering teams.
Close the loop with the fleet: field failures fed back into models and design changes.

## What We're Looking For
You've done reliability engineering for infrastructure, energy, or complex hardware.
You've built availability models decision-makers used.
You've led cross-discipline FMEAs that changed designs.
You mine field data for the truth about failure rates.
You argue redundancy trade-offs in dollars and nines.

**Bonus:** Data center topologies. RAM modeling software. Weibull analysis. Maintenance strategy design.

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