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Give health. Make your mark in the fight against cancer.\nAt Accuray, we make a direct and powerful impact on the lives of cancer patients every day - helping them live longer, better lives. But our commitment to innovation offers a truly unique opportunity: the chance to change the fight against cancer - helping to develop, introduce and support new treatment delivery systems and software that will give new hope and new health to cancer patients and cancer survivors around the world.\nAccuray develops, manufactures and sells radiotherapy systems for alternative cancer treatments. Our radiation therapy for cancer makes treatment shorter, safer, personalized and more effective, ultimately enabling patients to live longer, better lives.\nJob Description\nSUMMARY:\nThe Reliability Systems Engineer in our Product Development department is responsible for establishing optimal reliability strategies across products and projects, identifying and tracking progress to relevant metrics, and guiding subsystem and component owners in execution of the most beneficial reliability tools throughout the product development process.\nREPORTING TO/DEPARTMENT:\nReports to the Sr. Director of Electromechanical Systems in the Electromechanical Engineering department.\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nDevelop user and system-level product reliability requirements to enable achievement of customer and business reliability objectives; work with subsystem owners and subject matter experts to allocate those requirements to subsystem and component levels; provide guidance and implement strategies to verify those requirements; adapt strategies to address needs of both internal and sourced designs to ensure products/components meet or exceed functional requirements over their intended life in their intended environment.\nTranslate user and system-level objectives into system and project-specific reliability plans; provide guidance to subsystem and component owners to create similar plans at those levels.\nEmploy tools to identify and prioritize design risks and define mitigations to eliminate or reduce those risks as early as possible in the development cycle; tools include but are not limited to FMEAs, usage definition, evaluation with respect to anticipated stresses, and field data analysis.\nIdentify design analysis and other (non-test-based) strategies to mitigate design risks and enable requirement verification; applicable tools include but are not limited to de-rating, reliability prediction, modeling, and finite element analysis.\nProvide guidance on test strategies to achieve reliability objectives, not limited to but including reliability growth testing (e.g. HALT/step stress testing), mitigation of design risks (e.g. environmental testing), and reliability demonstration testing.\nAnalyze and mentor other engineers in analysis techniques to characterize failure distributions, identify and mitigate dominant failure modes.\nTrack progress to reliability objectives through the development cycle; facilitate regular review of progress to objectives and mitigations to address anticipated and known failure modes; provide guidance to organizations including service, manufacturing, and quality to enable achievement of reliability objectives on released product.\nMentor subsystem and component owners in identification and execution of the most beneficial reliability tools during the optimal time in the product development process.\nIdentify and work with cross-functional teams to implement process changes to drive reliability into existing processes and create new processes, when necessary; promote use of reliability best practices within and beyond product development based on external input not limited to but including standards and industry best practices.\nSupport functional and project managers in establishing and updating project milestones and schedules as well as evaluating engineering technologies and tools.\nWork effectively with other engineers, scientists, subcontractors, and contractors.\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:Preferred or Desired:\nAn advanced technical degree or certification in the field of Reliability Engineering. \nExperience with reliability analysis software.\nExperience in application of statistical methods.\nKnowledge of reliability tools such as FMEA, Weibull Analysis, Reliability Allocation and Prediction, De-rating, Root Cause Analysis, Ishikawa Diagrams, Pareto Analysis, DOE, and accelerated testing.\nExperience in application of reliability methodologies across the product development cycle.\nExperience in software-based test automation including Python.\nRequired:\nBachelor’s degree in Engineering or Physics and at least 5 years of design and development or reliability in a highly regulated industry. \nSuitable work experience in a technically related field may be considered in lieu of formal education.\nBasic understanding of control systems, electronics, and computer networks.\nHands-on experience with electronic test equipment and software.\nExcellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.\nGood verbal and written communication skills.\nProficient computer skills, including standard office software. \nAbility to organize and coordinate technical tasks for other engineers.\nTo qualify for this position, candidates must be able to furnish proof that they are authorized to work in the country they are applying on a permanent basis without sponsorship.\nEEO Statement\nAt Accuray, our commitment to patient-first outcomes drives an inclusive and collaborative work environment where the best ideas rise to the top - and everyone works to push them further. We value diversity in both the professional and personal backgrounds of our employees, as this variety adds rich energy to every team, every project and every work day. 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