Aperia is unlocking a new era of efficiency and sustainability for commercial vehicle fleets, by developing innovative hardware and data analytics solutions. Inventors of the award- winning and disruptive Halotm Automatic Tire Inflator, and the cloud delivered Halo Connect tire analytics platform. Aperia saves fleets thousands of hours of down-time every week, reduces the carbon footprint and environmental impact of the freight industry. Join us as we expand our product offering and take the next steps on our journey toward bringing the "backbone of our economy" into the automation age.
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Your Role
This is an opportunity for a Principal Reliability Engineer and leader to play a crucial role in both the development of Aperia’s next generation products and the maturation of our existing products to perform at even larger scale. You will work in a high-communication environment as part of a team of empowered engineers who have passion for the products they work on and care about their end users. We’re looking forward to you sharing your experience, interdisciplinary skills and drive for reliability science and engineering, and working together to make Halo and Halo Connect something we’re all proud of. Since we are still a small organization, your contributions will have a big impact on the product, our company, and our customers. This is an onsite position.
Your Responsibilities
- Lead the discipline of reliability engineering at Aperia, architecting test plans for new products and product changes and advising others, and signing off on change orders.
- Oversee the development of the reliability engineering test lab, direct test technicians, manage the lab’s day to day activities and produce test reports.
- Play a leading role in failure analysis of electronics and electromechanical systems both from laboratory tests and field returns.
- Fit and model failure data, mining field data in the cloud and lab test data.
- Participate in DFMEA and PFMEA activity.
Skills/Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters Degree in related engineering field.
- 10+ years experience in reliability engineering or related work, with preference on electromechanical hardware systems produced at high volume.
- Strong background in reliability science, typical hardware failure modes, data analytics for reliability, Weibull statistics etc. Database mining / manipulation skills are a plus.
- Hands on in the lab, comfortable/capable with wide range of electrical and mechanical test equipment.
- Strong communication and leadership skills are critical.
- Experience with formal product development and release to manufacturing over the full product lifecycle
- Familiarity with automotive ISO test/reliability standards, IATF 16949, GMW 3172 is helpful.
- Design of test fixtures and/or labview skills are a plus.
- Self-motivated, proactive, independent, curious and driven to learn and improve.
Pay Range: $155,000 - $170,000
*Base salary only. Salary is dependent on multiple factors including, but not limited to, experience and location.
**Additional compensation may include equity, bonuses, stipends, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and long-term disability insurance.
Skills Required
- Bachelors or Masters degree in a related engineering field
- 10+ years experience in reliability engineering or related work
- Strong background in reliability science, hardware failure modes, and Weibull statistics
- Experience in failure analysis of electronics and electromechanical systems
- Hands-on experience with electrical and mechanical test equipment and lab work
- Strong communication and leadership skills
- Experience with formal product development and release to manufacturing across product lifecycle
- Database mining / manipulation skills
- Familiarity with automotive ISO test/reliability standards (IATF 16949, GMW 3172)
- Design of test fixtures and/or LabVIEW skills
- Self-motivated, proactive, independent, curious and driven to learn and improve
What We Do
Aperia Technologies engineers innovation to make transportation more efficient, safer, and better for the environment. The company’s comprehensive suite of tire management solutions, including Halo Connect® and the Halo Tire Inflator®, improve fuel economy and road safety while reducing tire expenditures, downtime, and maintenance costs for commercial fleets. Aperia offers the most comprehensive, user-friendly, line-up of tire management solutions available to commercial fleets worldwide with nearing a million tires under management
