HWQA Robustness & Reliability Engineer

About the role

HP Additive Manufacturing (HPAM) is hiring a HWQA Robustness & Reliability Engineer in Sant Cugat del Valles. The role defines and drives hardware quality assurance, robustness and reliability engineering strategies across HPAM hardware products, leading validation activities and collaborating with cross-functional hardware, software, manufacturing and supplier teams. It works with global teams across R&D, manufacturing, suppliers and product development.

Key responsibilities

• Define reliability requirements, validation parameters and acceptance criteria based on customer use conditions, business requirements and industry best practice.
• Plan, develop and execute robustness, reliability and quality validation strategies for new and existing hardware, including environmental, mechanical, thermal, transportation, abuse, durability, lifecycle, ALT and HALT tests.
• Perform failure analysis, root cause investigations and corrective action tracking, and apply Weibull analysis, reliability growth modeling, life data analysis, HALT, HASS and Design for Reliability (DfR).
• Lead risk assessments at system and subsystem level, including FMEA and fault tree analysis.
• Manage reliability and quality deliverables from internal teams, external partners, laboratories and suppliers, and drive continuous improvement using field data, customer feedback and escalations.
• Drive hardware quality governance through design reviews, quality reviews and program decision milestones, and provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers.

Required profile

• Recommended four-year or graduate degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Industrial Engineering, Physics or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4-7 years of experience in reliability engineering, product quality, hardware validation or product assurance; an advanced degree with 3-5 years of relevant experience is also acceptable.
• Experience with product qualification, reliability testing, failure analysis and risk assessment is preferred.

Required skills

• Reliability engineering, robustness validation and Design for Reliability (DfR)
• HALT/HASS, accelerated life testing (ALT), environmental, mechanical and thermal stress testing
• Weibull analysis, reliability growth analysis, failure analysis and root cause analysis
• FMEA (design and process), CAPA, quality risk management, supplier and manufacturing quality, quality management systems
• CAD and data analytics and reporting