Lead Reliability Engineer

2 months ago


McLean, United States MITRE Full time

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

Department Summary:

The Mechanical & Reliability Systems and Prototype Development Department provides innovative solutions for electronic prototypes designed for advanced sensing, communication, and navigation systems. Areas of expertise include ground, airborne and shipboard systems. Engineers from the group are critical to all aspects of prototype or system development beginning with conceptual design, continuing through detail design, system integration and test, fabrication, and environmental testing. We provide technical guidance through rigorous analytical, physical, and computational methods with data driven products to enhance decision making and risk management.

Job Description:

Join MITRE and lead reliability, maintainability, and availability (RMA) engineering analyses on programs for a variety of government sponsors spanning a range of technologies.

Key functions for this role will include:

  • Developing and specifying RMA requirements for new complex electro-mechanical systems
  • Conducting system RMA modeling and analyses
  • Assessing Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
  • Participating in design reviews and assessments
  • Participating in test planning and evaluations
  • Assessing failure analyses, corrective actions, and reliability growth curves
  • Conducting field evaluations and sustainment support to include sparing analysis and obsolescence risk analysis
  • Assessing production testing plans to include Environmental Stress Screening (ESS) and lot sampling plans
  • Participating in the execution of in-house environmental and reliability testing
  • Presenting findings and recommendations to MITRE program managers and sponsor organizations

Basic Qualifications:

  • Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
  • B.S. in electrical or mechanical engineering or physics with RMA or operations research or systems engineering background
  • 5+ years’ experience with RMA analysis, predictions and modeling techniques
  • 5+ years’ experience with FMECA
  • 5+ years’ experience with Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) process
  • 5+ years’ experience with RMA testing, including reliability growth testing, qualification testing, and production testing
  • Ability to formulate RMA requirements based on user mission concept
  • Familiarity with concepts in software reliability and RMA software tools
  • Familiarity with concepts of digital engineering such as SysML and other model architectures
  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site work schedule

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Advanced engineering degree (M.S. or PhD) with background in RMA
  • 10+ years of experience performing reliability engineering activities
  • Experience performing RMA activities in a Department of Defense (DoD) program environment
  • Knowledge of reliability growth theory and tools and performing RMA testing
  • Experience leading engineering tasks
  • Experience proposing RMA infrastructure and technology development efforts
  • Knowledge of predictive maintenance models and reliability centered maintenance (RCM) principles

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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