Sr. Principal Reliability Engineer

Job description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities Thoroughly review new product designs from the architectural definition stage and collaborate closely with lead RF and optical designers, suppliers, mechanical designers, process engineers to identify potential risks and mitigation plans to prevent product failures. Travel to suppliers and factories will be required to build relationships and best assess process risk, scalability challenges, and manufacturing readiness. - Assess field risks associated w/ new product platforms, components, assembly challenges, and system architectures to define, prioritize, track, and validate reliability improvements throughout the NPI process - Develop new methodologies early in NPI to analyze reliability estimates, applying a combination of known and unknown industry standard approaches, field statistics, and component data. - Formulate a product validation strategy to confirm product stability and robustness while balancing any customer/business constraints, ensuring compliance to rigorous quality and reliability criteria set by Coherent and our customers. - Define the qualification plan, tests, resource, execute, and monitor progress of the qualification progra...