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Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer

Aalo Atomics · Austin, TX · On-site

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About Aalo Atomics

About Aalo Atomics Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Backed by Kindred Venture Capitals.

About the role

Aalo is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering across components, subsystems, and modular assemblies—establishing the analytical and experimental basis for reliability estimates, identifying critical failure modes, and helping teams translate requirements into robust designs and verification plans.

What they're looking for

  • Minimum of seven (7) years of relevant experience in reliability engineering, product assurance, test engineering, or a closely related field
  • Demonstrated experience developing and critically reviewing designs of experiments for reliability estimation or demonstration
  • Strong knowledge of reliability statistics, life-data analysis, confidence intervals, sample-size determination, and accelerated testing
  • Experience applying reliability methods to physical components and integrated hardware assemblies
  • Proficiency with methods such as FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, reliability growth, and root-cause analysis
  • Ability to distinguish between qualification testing, reliability estimation, reliability demonstration, and screening—and to design tests appropriate to each objective
More about this role

Aalo is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering across components, subsystems, and modular assemblies—establishing the analytical and experimental basis for reliability estimates, identifying critical failure modes, and helping teams translate requirements into robust designs and verification plans.

A key responsibility is reviewing and developing experiments for reliability estimation, including assessing sample sizes, test conditions, statistical models, and acceptance criteria, and developing strategies such as accelerated-life, degradation, and system-level testing.

This hands-on, cross-functional role requires rigorous statistical judgment and close collaboration with design, test, manufacturing, quality, safety, and systems engineering teams.

  • Own and advance Aalo's reliability engineering methods for components, subsystems, and modular assemblies.
  • Develop reliability requirements, allocations, predictions, and verification strategies throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Select and apply appropriate statistical models, such as Weibull and lognormal life models, survival analysis, Bayesian methods, reliability growth models, and...

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