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Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.
Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.
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Motive is looking for a Senior Reliability Engineer to own and manage hardware reliability engineering activities during product development. In this role you will work closely with cross-functional partners to understand the product use case and translate that into a comprehensive reliability plan to enable design and ship a reliable product. This is a high impact role where the individual will be responsible for reliability specification development, test plan development, coordinating test execution as well as drive failure analysis and risk assessments.
What You’ll Do:- Own end to end reliability for NPI products.
- Drive DFMEA to highlight reliability risks early in product development cycle.
- Develop reliability specifications for NPI products by collaborating with internal stakeholders (mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, product management, program management etc.) to understand design and use case.
- Create reliability test plans during xVT builds.
- Work with manufacturing partners and test vendors on test execution.
- Drive failure analysis with internal and external stakeholders.
- Perform reliability risk assessments if necessary
- Provide crisp summaries of reliability findings to the cross-functional team during xVT to aid design and product decisions.
- BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in hardware reliability engineering of consumer electronics or automotive electronics products.
- Familiarity with industry standards such as MIL, SAE, IEC, ISO, JEDEC etc.
- Prior experience with accelerated life tests (ALT) and using acceleration models to develop reliability specifications.
- Hands-on experience with reliability testing such as vibration, environmental testing, mechanical shock, drop etc.
- Basic understanding of reliability statics such as Weibull analysis.
- Excellent supplier management and project management skills.
- Strong written and oral communication.
- Ability to travel to partner sites (30%).
- ASQ CRE certification is a plus
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Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking, driver safety, compliance, maintenance, spend management, and more. Motive serves more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics, construction, oil and gas, food and beverage, field service, agriculture, passenger transit, and delivery. Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
Why Work With Us
We work hard, with humility and we see our efforts rewarded in tangible ways every day. At Motive, you’ll have the chance to make a difference for the drivers who keep our world moving. We trust each other to do great work because together we can achieve collective goals that reach beyond the physical economy.
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