Reliability Engineer
US$110,000 – US$210,000 / yr base salary
Posted 24 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Senior Engineer, Reliability (R5950)”
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- Level
- R5950
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$110,000 – US$210,000 / yr |
|---|
Field of studyAerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
We are seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer to lead reliability engineering activities for the development, integration, testing, and operation of aircraft systems. This position will work across engineering disciplines to establish reliability requirements, manage system reliability budgets, perform reliability analyses, and identify design improvements that increase aircraft availability and mission success.
The successful candidate will have direct experience working on aircraft or other complex aerospace systems and be proficient with industry-standard reliability tools and methods. This engineer will serve as the primary reliability point of contact for assigned programs and communicate reliability performance, risks, and improvement plans to engineering leadership and customers.
What you'll do:
- Develop and maintain aircraft-level reliability requirements, objectives, and program reliability plans.
- Establish, allocate, and manage reliability budgets across systems, subsystems, and line-replaceable units.
- Track predicted reliability against program targets and identify components or subsystems driving reliability risk.
- Perform reliability predictions using component failure-rate data, operating environments, and mission profiles.
- Conduct Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) analysis.
- Support aircraft system safety assessments by providing failure rates, failure modes, and reliability data.
- Develop and maintain Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Mean Time Between Critical Failure (MTBCF), mission reliability, availability, and related reliability metrics.
- Perform reliability allocation, trade studies, sensitivity analyses, and design assessments.