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Lead Reliability Engineer

Sabi · San Francisco · Remote

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About Sabi

The first neural interface that transforms your thoughts into text. No typing. No voice. Just Think. Backed by Khosla.

About the role

You will be the founding reliability engineering hire, owning whether our product survives in the field. Our wearable goes onto people's heads for hours a day. It charges over USB-C, lives in pockets and bags, gets sweated on, dropped, and travels through every climate. Your job is to make sure it works, keeps working, and meets every safety, regulatory, and quality bar that consumer electronics require.

What they're looking for

  • Must-Haves
  • 10+ years of reliability engineering for consumer hardware, with at least one shipped product where you owned reliability from concept through field
  • Deep working knowledge of consumer-electronics qualification standards (IEC 60068, IEC 61000, JEDEC, IPC) and the regional certifications landscape (FCC Part 15, CE/RED, IC RSS, plus battery and body-worn specifics)
  • Experience designing accelerated life tests and applying statistical reliability methods (Weibull analysis, acceleration models, sample-size design)
  • Demonstrated experience driving design-for-reliability with EE, ME, and FW leads: FMEA leadership, design reviews, and embedding reliability discipline upstream
  • Comfortable owning external lab relationships, certification projects, and CM-side reliability gates
More about this role

We're a small team solving one of the hardest problems in human-computer interaction: a noninvasive wearable that turns thought into text, no surgery required.

By pairing ultra-high-density neural sensing with our Brain Foundation Model, we decode neural signals with a fidelity once reserved for implants. Our mission is to give a billion people a direct link between mind and machine - expanding how humans think, communicate, and create.

We are building a next-generation AI companion wearable powered by EEG/BCI technology. Our device reads and responds to neural signals in real time, creating a deeply personal experience that adapts to each user. This is not another productivity tool or a gadget — it is a new category of technology built around human potential.

We are backed by strong investors, moving fast, and assembling a world-class team to bring this to market. If you thrive at the frontier of what’s possible and want to build something that genuinely changes how people interact with their own minds, we want to talk to you.

You will be the founding reliability engineering hire, owning whether our product survives in the field. Our wearable goes onto people's heads for hours a...

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