# Hardware Reliability Engineer

Skip is on a mission to make life joyful through powered movement. Movement is a powerful way to build physical, mental and social health. Yet it is elusive for 2 billion people due to age, injury, or disability. We are building products that will restore mobility for millions and enable a new frontier of joyful movement experiences. We want to build a future where a grandparent can easily outrun their grandkids and no one is left behind at the trailhead. Skip is a 22-person early-stage start-up that spun out of Google X in 2023. With deep cross-disciplinary expertise and key partnerships (e.g. with Arc’teryx) we are uniquely positioned to launch the first commercially successful wearable robotic device, the MO/GO, develop a platform to launch future Movewear products and transform millions of lives in the coming years. The Role As our Hardware Reliability Engineer, you will be the person who makes sure our products don't just work in the lab -- they work on real humans, in real conditions, for a long time. You will own the reliability testing program for the MO/GO and future Skip products, from defining test plans and failure modes through execution, analysis, and closure. On a sm

- **Id**: 863468
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/skipwithjoy-hardware-reliability-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-19T23:52:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:18:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 176
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4950
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Exoskeletons & Wearable Robotics

## Company

- **Id**: 695243
- **Name**: Skip
- **Domain**: skipwithjoy.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/skipwithjoy>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 184
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 210000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 210000

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **IEC 60601** — Optional: yes
- **ISO 13485** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 176

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T11:41:33Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-07T02:18:40Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-09T17:37:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 44
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.738
- **P room**: 0.6
- **Age days**: 176
- **Expected fill days**: 184
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:late, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 210000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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