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Sr. Reliability Engineer

1st Avenue Power · Mountain View, CA · On-site

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About 1st Avenue Power

1AP is building the next generation power plant technology: turnkey, optimized power systems delivering clean, Hyperfirm, high-capacity power for demanding customer loads in a rapidly electrifying world. Backed by Unreasonable.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Reliability Engineer to define and lead the reliability strategy for next-generation renewable energy products, including utility-scale photovoltaic systems, battery energy storage systems (BESS), power conversion systems (PCS), high-voltage power electronics, intelligent energy management systems, and supporting infrastructure.

What they're looking for

  • Create DVP&R and reliability qualification plans
  • Review supplier qualification and production validation
  • BS or MS in Electrical, Mechanical, Reliability Engineering or related discipline
  • 8+ years in reliability engineering for renewable energy, power electronics, industrial power systems or electrification
  • Experience with accelerated life testing, statistical reliability and failure analysis
  • Experience with DFMEA, PFMEA, DRBFM and root cause methodologies
More about this role

Team: System Engineering

We are seeking an experienced Senior Reliability Engineer to define and lead the reliability strategy for next-generation renewable energy products, including utility-scale photovoltaic systems, battery energy storage systems (BESS), power conversion systems (PCS), high-voltage power electronics, intelligent energy management systems, and supporting infrastructure. This individual will own reliability engineering from architecture through field deployment, ensuring products meet aggressive performance, availability, warranty, and 20+ year lifetime objectives.

The successful candidate will partner with Hardware, Firmware, Systems, Validation, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Product Management, and Field Service teams to proactively eliminate failure mechanisms, develop accelerated qualification plans, improve product robustness, and drive continuous reliability growth using data-driven engineering practices.

  • Own the reliability strategy across the complete product lifecycle.
  • Define quantitative reliability requirements, availability targets and warranty objectives.
  • Develop mission profiles representing utility-scale solar, BESS, microgrid and data-center...

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