Manager, Hardware Reliability Engineering

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Motive is seeking a hands-on Manager of Hardware Reliability Engineering to lead the Taipei-based reliability team define reliability strategy across the product lifecycle and partner globally with engineering manufacturing quality suppliers and product teams to turn field insights and data into more robust connected-device products.

• Set reliability strategy and direction by defining the multi-quarter hardware reliability strategy team goals success metrics and ownership model translating ambiguous risks into actionable plans and representing Hardware Reliability in design launch and leadership forums.
• Drive reliability across the product lifecycle by partnering across Mechanical Electrical Firmware Systems Product and TPM to define requirements test plans qualification coverage and exit criteria and leading failure-mode analysis design-for-reliability reviews reliability growth and risk-based decisions from concept through sustaining.
• Improve field and production quality by connecting design validation manufacturing data returns support signals and field failures to drive root-cause analysis corrective actions and data-informed improvements to process capability supplier quality test coverage and product robustness.
• Build and develop the team by hiring coaching retaining and developing a high-performing Taipei-based reliability engineering team while establishing scalable standards documentation and review mechanisms planning resources and removing execution bottlenecks.
• Influence globally by building trusted partnerships across Taipei San Francisco India and other global teams communicating technical trade-offs clearly aligning stakeholders across cost schedule quality and reliability and championing customer-back strategies.

• Bachelors or masters degree in Mechanical Electrical Materials Reliability Engineering or a related field.
• Experience in hardware reliability product quality validation or systems engineering.
• Experience hiring developing and managing engineering reliability teams.
• Lead cross-functional reliability and quality initiatives across engineering operations manufacturing and suppliers.
• Define multi-quarter reliability strategies team goals metrics and operating cadences.
• Apply expertise in failure mechanisms reliability testing accelerated life testing root-cause analysis corrective actions and statistical tools.
• Develop test plans and reliability requirements for NPI/ORT based on field conditions and use cases.
• Lead DFMEA reviews reduce design risks drive improvements and collaborate with global teams and Taiwan-based suppliers.
• Manage lab equipment calibration and resolve audit findings nonconformances and corrective actions.

• Experience with connected devices automotive electronics telematics cameras industrial equipment consumer electronics or other products deployed in harsh environments.
• Experience taking products from concept through design verification NPI production ramp and sustaining engineering.
• Familiarity with NUDD FRACAS FMEA fault-tree analysis reliability prediction Weibull analysis DOE tolerance analysis and reliability growth planning.
• Experience working with contract manufacturers and component suppliers on qualification process capability and corrective actions.
• Familiarity with applicable industry and environmental standards such as IEC 60068 MIL-STD-810 ISO16750 or automotive/customer-specific requirements.

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