The Senior Product Reliability Engineer will provide expertise in design for reliability, reliability test construction and execution, reliability test equipment, failure analysis and statistics for mechanical and electrical product reliability. The role takes part in new product introductions ensuring R&D uses best reliability design practices, and implement lessons learned from reliability growth to new designs. The engineer analyzes and organizes trend data and acts as product technical expert to a global team of technicians and quality engineers.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Research on domestic and foreign environmental reliability standards, combined with product design and application requirements, guide environmental reliability design and testing
- Design product environmental reliability test scheme to verify product environmental adaptability and reliability level including accelerated life test
- Reliability prediction, life evaluation, FMEA analysis and other reliability work according to market demand
- Support for issues related to market and environmental adaptability
- Drives a team of technicians and engineers globally to effectively troubleshoot and analyze returned units to determine root cause
- Generates reports to internal teams and, at times, directly back to customers
- Gathers the failure trend data and suggests design or manufacturing corrective actions
- Works closely with technicians and junior engineers, providing technical expertise and guidance
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of electrical or mechanical engineering product development, design, repair, or support experience
- Working knowledge in power/electrical engineering; three-phase AC and DC power, IGBTs, inverters, rectifiers, microprocessor and sensor interfacing, firmware interfacing, DC batteries, connectors/wire- harnesses
- Working knowledge in large and small scale cooling systems
- Strong ability to read and understand electrical schematics and PCBA layouts
- Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to solve and prevent a wide range of problems quickly and methodically
- Ability to operate in an electrical testing lab environment safely and successfully
- Must be comfortable interfacing with customer and at times traveling to sites to troubleshoot difficult or high-profile technical issues
- Excellent planning, organizing, documentation, and communication skills
- Ability to multitask and operate in cross functional global development teams
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of electrical or mechanical engineering product development, design, repair, or support experience
- Working knowledge in power/electrical engineering including three-phase AC and DC power, IGBTs, inverters, rectifiers
- Experience with microprocessor and sensor interfacing and firmware interfacing
- Knowledge of DC batteries, connectors and wire-harnesses
- Working knowledge in large and small scale cooling systems
- Ability to read and understand electrical schematics and PCBA layouts
- Strong troubleshooting skills and failure analysis expertise
- Ability to operate safely in an electrical testing lab environment
- Comfort interfacing with customers and traveling to sites as needed
- Excellent planning, organizing, documentation, and communication skills
- Ability to multitask and operate in cross-functional global development teams
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with standard medical, dental, and vision plans plus wellness and mental-health resources. Core offerings also include disability and life insurance and an Employee Assistance Program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid holidays and PTO typical of large employers, and many U.S. salaried roles feature flexible or "unlimited" PTO approaches. These programs are part of a structured, global total rewards framework.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair at start for many office-based, engineering, and field service roles, and total compensation packages are viewed as stable. In some hourly manufacturing settings, overtime opportunities help boost overall earnings.
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Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
