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Our mission is to give a billion people a direct link between mind and machine - expanding how humans think, communicate, and create.\nWe are building a next-generation AI companion wearable powered by EEG/BCI technology. Our device reads and responds to neural signals in real time, creating a deeply personal experience that adapts to each user. This is not another productivity tool or a gadget - it is a new category of technology built around human potential.\nWe are backed by strong investors, moving fast, and assembling a world-class team to bring this to market. If you thrive at the frontier of what’s possible and want to build something that genuinely changes how people interact with their own minds, we want to talk to you.\nAbout the Role\nYou will be the founding reliability engineering hire, owning whether our product survives in the field. Our wearable goes onto people's heads for hours a day. It charges over USB-C, lives in pockets and bags, gets sweated on, dropped, and travels through every climate. Your job is to make sure it works, keeps working, and meets every safety, regulatory, and quality bar that consumer electronics require.\nYou will report to the Head of Hardware, with regular exposure to the CEO and CTO, and partner closely with the EE, FW, audio, camera, and product design leads. Each owns their subsystem; you own the qualification, certification, and field-quality strategy across all of them. You will also work extensively with external engineering teams at our contract manufacturers, test labs, and certification bodies. The work is outsourced; the accountability is yours\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn the reliability strategy end-to-end: test plans, qualification protocols, accelerated life testing, and certifications across all subsystems and regions.\n\nDrive design-for-reliability into every team's process: leading FMEA reviews, design-review participation, and the cultural work of building reliability in rather than testing it after.\n\nDefine and execute the qualification test program: environmental, mechanical, wireless, battery, and biocompatibility for skin-contact components.\n\nStand up our test capability, internal where it makes sense and external lab partnerships where it doesn't, and own the test fixtures, sample plans, and pass/fail criteria that gate every release.\n\nLead the certifications strategy and execution: FCC, CE/RED, IC, RoHS, REACH, plus body-worn and battery-specific approvals, alongside our regulatory consultants and CMs.\n\nPartner with the EE lead on EMC and ESD; with audio and camera leads on component-level reliability; with the product design lead on drop, ingress, and thermal robustness; with the firmware lead on field telemetry and diagnostics.\n\nTake the product through qualification gates to in-market launch by end of year.\n\nOwn field quality post-launch: AFR/MTBF targets, returns analysis, root-cause investigation, and the corrective-action loop into design.\n\nBuild and lead the reliability function as the product scales.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nMust-Haves\n10+ years of reliability engineering for consumer hardware, with at least one shipped product where you owned reliability from concept through field.\n\nDeep working knowledge of consumer-electronics qualification standards (IEC 60068, IEC 61000, JEDEC, IPC) and the regional certifications landscape (FCC Part 15, CE/RED, IC RSS, plus battery and body-worn specifics).\n\nExperience designing accelerated life tests and applying statistical reliability methods (Weibull analysis, acceleration models, sample-size design).\n\nDemonstrated experience driving design-for-reliability with EE, ME, and FW leads: FMEA leadership, design reviews, and embedding reliability discipline upstream.\n\nComfortable owning external lab relationships, certification projects, and CM-side reliability gates.\n\nNice-to-Haves\nWearables, hearables, mobile devices, or other body-worn consumer electronics.\n\nBattery reliability: UN38.3, cycle life, swelling, thermal abuse, charging-system safety.\n\nBiocompatibility and skin-contact testing (ISO 10993 family).\n\nField telemetry and post-launch quality analytics.\nHALT/HASS test design and execution.\n\nIf you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every qualification, please apply. As we build, we’re hiring for complementary strengths to form a high-impact team.\nCompensation & Benefits\nCompetitive base salary\n\nMeaningful equity package\n\n401(k) with company matching\n\nHealth insurance\n\nFlexible PTO\n\nOur Hiring Timeline\nEvaluation completed within 14 days of first interview\n\nOffer letter dispatched same day as go decision, valid for 10 days\n\nStart date within 4 weeks of offer acceptance\n\nAll candidate queries responded to within 3 hours during business hours\n\nSabi is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. 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