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Staff Hardware Reliability Engineer - Power Electronics

Lunar Energy · Mountain View, CA · On-site

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About Lunar Energy

Lunar Energy's mission is to transition homes to 100% clean energy. Founded in 2020, Lunar Energy is designing and engineering the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants. Backed by Prelude Ventures.

About the role

This role owns system-level reliability from early architecture through fleet deployment. You will set the reliability strategy, define qualification and accelerated life testing approaches, and shape our failure analysis practices so that every product we ship performs for its full design life in customers’ homes. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or equivalent
  • Ability to manage complex reliability decisions in fast paced environments e.g. Balancing reliability risk against cost, schedule, and performance
  • Experience with accelerated life testing models and the governing equations, as well as applied reliability statistics (e.g., Weibull analysis) and risk analysis
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional root-cause investigations in a fast-moving hardware company
  • Working knowledge of failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM, CSAM, X-ray, cross-sectioning, and EDX, including knowing which technique to recommend for a given failure
  • Familiarity with PCBA reliability best design practices in conjunction with a strong grasp of failure physics in PCBAs/common power electronics components is a strong plus
More about this role

Staff Hardware Reliability Engineer - Power Electronics

We are looking for a hands-on, execution-focused Staff Reliability Engineer to lead product reliability for Lunar Energy’s home energy systems, spanning our power electronics, battery, and solar products.

This role owns system-level reliability from early architecture through fleet deployment. You will set the reliability strategy, define qualification and accelerated life testing approaches, and shape our failure analysis practices so that every product we ship performs for its full design life in customers’ homes. You will work across Test, Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Field Service teams, and you will help turn our mission of a cleaner, more resilient energy future into products people can count on for years.

Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. We’re a fast-growing, global company building the world’s best clean energy products to electrify all homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants.

  • Own the reliability strategy for...

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