Hardware Reliability Engineer

At Rhoda AI, we’re building the next generation of generalist intelligent robots. We own the full robotics stack from high-performance hardware and robot systems to the infrastructure and state-of-the-art foundation world models that control our robots. Our robots are designed to be generalists capable of operating in complex, real-world environments and handling long-tail edge cases, made possible by our cutting edge research and end-to-end system design. We've raised over $450M and are investing aggressively in model research, infrastructure, hardware development, and manufacturing scale-up to make generalist robotics a reality.

As the Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer, you own reliability as an engineering discipline, not just a test outcome. Every mission profile we define, every acceleration factor we trust, every design change that prevents a failure mode from reaching hardware starts with the reliability analysis you run.

Reliability starts upstream of the test bench. In this role, you decompose platform and subsystem requirements into mission profiles — the duty cycles, load spectra, and environmental exposures Robot will actually see over its life in industrial workspaces — and use them to define how test campaigns should be accelerated, not just to interpret data once it exists. Those mission profiles set the acceleration factors, sample sizes, and pass/fail criteria for the HALT/HASS, thermal cycling, vibration, and fatigue campaigns run in partnership with the test engineers.

We operate as T-shaped engineers. You must be a strong generalist across electromechanical systems — actuators, motors, power electronics, structures — but your superpower for this role is translating ambiguous, early-stage requirements into mission profiles and accelerated test plans the rest of the org can design and test against.

What You'll Do

• Mission Profile Decomposition: Decompose platform and subsystem requirements into mission profiles — duty cycles, load spectra, environmental exposure — that define what “real-world use” means for each hardware discipline.

• Accelerated Test Planning: Translate mission profiles into accelerated test plans: acceleration factors, sample sizes, and pass/fail criteria for HALT/HASS, thermal cycling, vibration, and fatigue campaigns, rather than only interpreting results after tests are run.

• Failure Mode Analysis: Build and maintain FMEA/FMECA analyses for critical subsystems, and drive design changes that eliminate failure modes before they reach hardware.

• Quantitative Reliability Modeling: Apply quantitative reliability methods (Weibull analysis, MTBF/MTTF, censored-data survival analysis, physics-of-failure acceleration models) to test and field data to predict and track reliability over time.

• Cross-Discipline Partnership: Partner with actuator, electrical, and structures test and design engineers to turn mission profiles into test-stand requirements, and to close the loop from test failure to root cause to design fix.