Hardware Reliability Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 22, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026. Motive scores B on the Alion truth index.
Who we are:
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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About the Role:
Motive is looking for a Senior HW Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability, durability, and quality of our connected hardware products from design through mass production. You will own reliability strategy, qualification planning, failure analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives that help ensure our products perform consistently in demanding real-world environments.
You will work with hardware, mechanical, firmware, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality teams to identify risks, resolve complex issues, and improve product performance. You will report to the engineering manager.
What You’ll Do:
- 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.
- Lead environmental, mechanical, electrical, and accelerated-life testing activities.
- Collaborate with design and manufacturing teams to improve product reliability, test coverage, and production quality.
- Own end to end reliability for NPI products. Drive DFMEA to highlight reliability risks
early in the product development cycle.
- 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, drive corrective and preventive actions from issue identification through verification.
- Perform reliability risk assessments if necessary
- Provide crisp summaries of reliability findings to the cross-functional team during xVTto aid design and product decisions.
What We’re Looking For:
- BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline.
- 5+ 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 statistics such as Weibull analysis.
- Excellent supplier management and project management skills.
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