# Reliability Engineer, XFRA

Our Mission SPAN is enabling electrification for all XFRA by SPAN is the first distributed data center using existing infrastructure and underutilized power capacity to meet expanding AI compute demand. The Role You will own reliability for the XFRA node-an outdoor, liquid-cooled dense GPU compute enclosure (roughly HVAC-scale) that sits at residential and small-commercial sites and uses building electrical headroom via a SPAN Panel. The node combines high-power GPUs and CPUs, a heat-pump liquid-cooling loop, battery storage, and modular serviceability. This is not a classic raised-floor data-center reliability role and not a consumer-product reliability role. You define what “reliable enough” means for unattended outdoor operation across climates (hot climates matter), generate the evidence that the design meets it, and close the loop from test and field data back into design and process. Responsibilities Own Design for Reliability (DFR) for the XFRA node: set reliability targets and mission profiles for outdoor residential and commercial sites; create and maintain DFMEA/XFMEA across thermal, electrical, mechanical, fluid, and systems interfaces. Plan and drive reliability testin

- **Id**: 3989491
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/span-reliability-engineer-xfra>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T19:43:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:16:10Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4861
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible time off, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Smart Home Devices, Energy Management, EV Charging

## Company

- **Id**: 5825
- **Name**: SPAN
- **Domain**: span.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/span>
- **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**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 102
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 165000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 165000

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T22:52:48Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 10 · green card filings: 5; Filings 12m: 10

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 102
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 165000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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