Senior Reliability EngineeringNew

Senior Reliability Engineer Anduril Sydney NSW Full-time, Onsite

The Reliability Engineering team collaborates with Anduril's engineering, manufacturing, and operations divisions. Their objective is to ensure autonomous systems perform reliably in real-world environments and consistently meet customer expectations. This responsibility covers the entire product lifecycle, from initial concept design through scaled production and operational deployment. The team employs data, statistical methods, and engineering analysis to predict system performance over time and to inform design choices, including component selection, redundancy strategies, and maintenance approaches. They establish program-specific reliability frameworks and work with Quality to enhance design robustness, prevent failures, and promptly address field issues.

Anduril is seeking a seasoned Reliability Engineer to join its expanding team in Sydney, Australia. This role will drive end-to-end reliability for the company's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) platforms. It is a hands-on, highly collaborative position that encompasses the full product lifecycle, from early concept trade studies and detailed design to manufacturing scale-up, production, and sustained field performance. The successful candidate will act as the reliability advocate throughout the design and development process, working closely with mechanical, electrical, and software engineering teams to ensure robust designs. Collaboration with manufacturing, quality, test operations, and field service teams will be essential for transitioning products from engineering prototypes to production-ready systems. The scope includes performing predictive reliability analysis and FMEAs, developing and executing qualification and production test plans, leading root-cause failure investigations from both factory and field sources, and implementing closed-loop improvements to design and processes. The ideal candidate possesses deep technical knowledge of hardware reliability and failure mechanisms, practical experience in both design and production settings, and the ability to foster cross-functional alignment without direct authority. This role requires an independent, data-driven engineer capable of establishing reliability infrastructure from the ground up and assuming ownership of product performance from concept to deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Support and review system block diagrams, interface control documents, and schematics for compliance, redundancy, and accuracy against requirements and concept of operations.
• Lead Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) efforts, collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams to implement design improvements.
• Perform predictive reliability analysis to calculate probability of loss of control, loss of asset, and MTTF/MTBF utilizing Anduril requirements, specifications, and relevant industry standards (e.g., MIL-HDBK-217Plus).
• Develop and execute comprehensive Qualification and Validation Test plans (including environmental, life/limit, and accelerated testing) to ensure appropriate requirements coverage and de-risking for production readiness; partner with Test Engineering to fixture and instrument test campaigns.
• Work with Quality and Manufacturing Engineering to develop, refine, and validate assembly, integration, and testing processes (including inspection/acceptance test gates) to optimize build reliability and reduce time-to-deploy.
• Develop Maintainability prediction models using MIL-HDBK-472, and support the development of Preventative Maintenance & Sparing plans.
• Perform Weibull analysis utilizing data from qualification campaigns, production testing, and fielded assets to predict failures and identify trends.
• Lead failure investigations on anomalies originating from design validation, production testing, and field returns; drive root cause analysis and corrective/preventative actions (CAPA) to closure.
• Support Development Milestone Reviews through the identification of appropriate entry and exit criteria, guiding the transition of designs from engineering development to high-rate production.
• Develop and implement standardized reliability processes, tools, and infrastructure to streamline and accelerate design, manufacturing, and deployment operations.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years experience as a Reliability Engineer, Design/Development Engineer, Process Engineer, Automation Engineer, Industrial Engineer or Test Engineer.
• B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical discipline.
• Experience with safety-critical hardware & software systems in the defense or aerospace industry, with a preference for experience with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.
• Experience or familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-516C, and MIL-STD-1629.
• Experience setting up a Reliability Engineering framework for a product or program, including support of production testing, field testing, data acquisition, and data analysis.
• Expertise.

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