{"id":3548834,"url":"https://alion.io/job/natus-reliability-engineering","title":"Reliability Engineering","company":{"id":2264861,"name":"Natus","domain":"natus.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/natus-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Dayforce","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Oakville, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":59000,"max_usd":101000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":500},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"FMEA","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Git","optional":true},{"name":"GitHub","optional":true},{"name":"Jira","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-30T12:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T08:30:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"About the Opportunity\nLocation: Hybrid: Oakville, Canada\nAt Natus Medical, product reliability is essential to delivering medical technology that healthcare professionals can depend on.\nWe are seeking an experienced Reliability Engineer to lead product reliability activities and help ensure our neurology medical devices and applications consistently deliver their intended performance throughout their expected service life.\nThis is a highly collaborative, technically influential role spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and integrated systems. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Verification Test, Quality, Service, and Manufacturing teams to transform product requirements, potential failure modes, and real-world field feedback into measurable reliability objectives, effective testing strategies, and long-term product service-life strategies.\nFrom early prototype development through formal Reliability Verification, Design Transfer, and commercialization, you'll take ownership of the methodologies, planning, analysis, and technical evidence that support product reliability.\nIf you're passionate about solving complex engineering challenges, improving product performance, and building reliability into every stage of product development, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead Reliability Strategy & Cross-Functional Collaboration\nLead cross-functional product reliability planning across Hardware, Firmware, Software, Systems Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Service teams.\nTranslate expected use cases and corner cases, product requirements, Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (dFMEA), expected product service life, and historical data (lessons learned, manufacturing, service, and field complaints) into measurable reliability objectives for New Product Introductions (NPI).\nDevelop and maintain product reliability test strategies, equipment requirements, acceptance criteria, and sample sizes aligned with prototype build plans, supported by corresponding statistical confidence and reliability targets.\nDevelop Advanced Reliability Testing & Validation Methods\nLead the development of standardized and automated reliability test methods and systems to evaluate hardware durability (environmental, mechanical, and electrical stresses), signal quality and data integrity, interface reliability, long-duration and endurance performance, fault injection and recovery, and system-level robustness across hardware, firmware, software applications, and cloud infrastructure.\nDevelop and apply appropriate accelerated testing models for electro-mechanical systems and strategies to demonstrate expected product service life.\nTurn Reliability Insights Into Product Improvements\nSupport failure analysis and root-cause investigations, ensuring findings are translated into DfX process improvements across requirements, procurement, design, testing, or manufacturing.\nPartner with Service teams to develop and maintain product Service Plans based on reliability outcomes, including expected failure modes, maintenance and inspection requirements, service intervals, repair/replacement strategies, and service-life considerations.\nLead formal, program-level Reliability and Service Technical Reviews.\nShape Reliability Excellence Across the Organization\nProvide technical leadership in developing and advancing organization-wide reliability programs, establishing standardized methodologies, processes, and best practices while driving cross-functional adoption throughout the product lifecycle.\nWhat You'll Bring\nRequired Qualifications\nEducation & Professional Experience\nBachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.\n7+ years of experience in product reliability engineering for complex, multidisciplinary products incorporating hardware, firmware, software, and system-level interfaces in industries such as medical devices, automotive, aerospace, or consumer electronics.\nReliability Engineering Expertise\nStrong knowledge and practical application of reliability standards, including IEC 62308 and IEC 61078, and reliability engineering principles and methodologies, including:\nBathtub curve, failure-rate characteristics and metrics (FIT, operating hours, MTTF, and MTBF).\nProbability distributions and reliability functions.\nWeibull analysis and life-data analysis.\nReliability block diagrams and reliability allocation.\nReliability prediction and expected service-life estimation.\nConfidence and reliability (C/R) intervals determination.\nExperience selecting and applying accelerated testing models, such as Arrhenius, Eyring, Coffin–Manson, inverse power law, or other physics-of-failure models appropriate to the identified failure mechanisms.\nStrong multidisciplinary engineering background with the ability to understand, challenge, and guide reliability engineering and test activities.\nDemonstrated experience developing and executing product Reliability Plans and risk-based reliability strategies throughout the product development lifecycle.\nTesting, Automation & Technical Investigation\nExperience defining and leading long-duration, stress, endurance, environmental, fault-injection, robustness, and system-level reliability testing.\nHands-on experience using hardware laboratory instruments, including function generators, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, data acquisition systems, and spectrum/signal analyzers.\nExperience developing automated test systems, including test scripts for embedded firmware and software applications, to support stress testing, long-duration testing, corner-case evaluation, and failure recovery.\nDemonstrated experience leading failure analysis and root-cause investigations involving multidisciplinary and intermittent product failures.\nTechnical Leadership & Problem-Solving\nAbility to interpret complex technical and statistical results and translate them into engineering decisions, risk assessments, and actionable recommendations.\nStrong hands-on technical capabilities and demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical investigations and influence Design for Reliability (DfR) engineering decisions and service strategies without direct authority.\nWhat Will Set You Apart\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience applying advanced firmware/software reliability methods, including automated regression testing, resource and stress 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Familiarity with development and test management tools such as Jama, Jira, Git, and GitHub.\nExperience testing the reliability and resilience of software applications (e.g., Android) or cloud infrastructure (e.g., Microsoft Azure), including network interruption, service restart and recovery, data synchronization, storage/database failures, backup and rollback, or similar resilience testing.\nMake an Impact With Natus Medical\nThis is an opportunity to bring your technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and leadership to complex medical technology that needs to perform reliably throughout its service life.\nYou'll have the opportunity to influence product design, strengthen testing methodologies, collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, and help establish reliability practices that support both current and future products.\nReady to help shape the reliability of medical technology? 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