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About the Role

Lead reliability engineering efforts for critical hardware systems, focusing on long-term performance, durability, and robustness. Drive reliability strategy, testing, and validation for electromechanical components and sensors. Identify failure risks early, foster cross-functional collaboration, and ensure reliable hardware performance in challenging real-world environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering efforts across hardware programs, ensuring components and systems meet demanding performance, environmental, and durability requirements.
• Apply Design for Reliability (DfR) principles throughout the product lifecycle, from concept through production, to proactively mitigate failure risks.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies to uncover failure modes, validate off-the-shelf and custom hardware, and model expected field performance.
• Translate FMEA and reliability risk analyses into targeted test plans with clearly defined objectives, acceleration factors, and pass/fail criteria.
• Plan and run Design of Experiments (DOE) to isolate root causes and address key reliability concerns.
• Design and optimize test fixtures and setups to evaluate hardware under electrical, thermal, mechanical, and environmental stresses (shock, vibration, thermal cycling, etc.).
• Drive and support failure analysis investigations, collaborating closely with design, manufacturing, and component teams to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Leverage data analytics tools (e.g., Python, JMP, MATLAB) to automate testing workflows, perform reliability modeling (e.g., Weibull, Monte Carlo), and extract actionable insights from test data.
• Champion continuous improvement in reliability processes and tools across hardware engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on reliability engineering experience, preferably in electromechanical systems or sensors.
• Proven track record in testing and validating hardware components for long-term field performance.
• Strong understanding of physics of failure and reliability engineering principles, particularly for electronic, optical, or mechanical systems.
• Experience with environmental and mechanical stress testing, including test design, execution, and result interpretation.
• Familiarity with reliability analysis tools and techniques: FMEA, Weibull analysis, SPC, HALT/HASS, and accelerated life testing.
• Proficiency in scripting or automation using tools such as Python, MATLAB, or LabVIEW.
• Experience working with reliability test equipment such as environmental chambers, vibration tables, thermocouples, strain gauges, and data acquisition systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with design, systems, manufacturing, and test teams.

Skills

• Design for Reliability (DfR)
• FMEA
• Reliability risk analysis
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Test fixture design
• Hardware evaluation under electrical stress
• Hardware evaluation under thermal stress
• Hardware evaluation under mechanical stress
• Hardware evaluation under environmental stress
• Shock testing
• Vibration testing
• Thermal cycling
• Failure analysis
• Data analytics
• Python
• JMP
• MATLAB
• Reliability modeling
• Weibull modeling
• Monte Carlo modeling
• Scripting
• Automation
• LabVIEW
• Environmental stress testing
• Mechanical stress testing
• Weibull analysis
• SPC
• HALT/HASS
• Accelerated life testing
• Environmental chambers
• Vibration tables
• Thermocouples
• Strain gauges
• Data acquisition systems
• Communication
• Collaboration

Location

• San Francisco, CA

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 5+ years of hands-on reliability engineering experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field
• Master’s preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $150k-180k

Benefits

• Equity participation for every full-time team member
• Periodic equity refreshments based on performance
• Rapid pay growth with experience and impact
• Personal Pod product
• Full access to health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents
• Supplemental life insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Commuter benefits
• Paid parental leave

About the Company

• Eight Sleep is the world’s first sleep fitness company, dedicated to fueling human potential through optimal sleep.
• Redefines being well-rested by building advanced hardware, software, and AI technology.
• Products transform sleep into a personalized, data-driven recovery experience, powering peak mental, physical, and emotional performance.
• Trusted by high performers, professional athletes, and health-conscious consumers in over 30 countries.
• Recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies (2019, 2022, 2023) and twice named to TIME's “Best Inventions of the Year.”
• Operates as a high-performance team: fast, focused, and motivated by impact, with a commitment to iterating, refining, and obsessing over details.
• Fosters a culture of excellence and innovation, pushing the boundaries of technology in sleep fitness.
• Values intensity, focus, and a relentless pursuit of being in the top 1% of their craft, akin to a 'mamba mentality'.
• Team members are deeply committed, often working 60+ hours a week, driven by investment in the mission to build fast, push limits, and deliver without compromise.

Equal Opportunity

• Committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
• Ensures everyone feels they can flourish and grow.