Quality & Reliability Engineer

🔥 14 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $145k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Frontline Wildfire Defense

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💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 2023-10

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Frontline Wildfire Defense is on a mission to provide faster, safer, and more precise ways to protect homes and businesses from wildfires. By combining specialized hardware and advanced software, Frontline offers automated sprinkler systems and real-time wildfire alerts, ensuring that properties can defend themselves against flame threats. The company focuses on innovative solutions to keep communities prepared and safe during wildfire season.

📋 Description

• Stand up Frontline’s hardware quality and reliability function and run it hands-on • Own the loop that turns field failures into root causes and permanent fixes across designs, suppliers, and the contract manufacturer • Establish the failure analysis, root cause, and corrective action process and tracking/review cadence • Define and track quality and reliability metrics • Help define, build, and run HALT/HASS, life, environmental, and other reliability tests • Lead end-to-end field-failure investigations from field and telemetry signals to verified root cause • Drive and verify fixes across mechanical, electromechanical, fluidic, and electronic systems and feed them back into design • Partner with field support and operations to quantify failure modes and prioritize reliability improvements • Resolve supplier issues through containment, corrective action, incoming inspection, and verification • Qualify new and second-source suppliers and work with contract manufacturers on build quality • Build quality gates into new product introduction and review design and BOM changes for risk • Partner with hardware engineering, operations, and field support

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in quality and/or reliability engineering for physical, deployed hardware (electromechanical, fluidic, or connected-device a plus) • Demonstrated ownership of failure analysis and corrective action, driven to verified closure • Direct supplier and contract-manufacturer quality experience: corrective action, incoming inspection, and qualification • Reliability-testing experience (HALT/HASS, life, environmental) and the ability to act on the results • Comfortable building process and doing the work in a scaling company, and willing to travel to the field and suppliers • Field or operations exposure: debugging deployed systems and working with installers • Connected/IoT products: telemetry-driven diagnostics and firmware/OTA failure modes • Familiarity with reliability statistics and PLM/ECO and BOM rigor • Successful completion of comprehensive background checks, including employment and education verification

🏖️ Benefits

• Company-provided cell phone and laptop • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance • 401(k) retirement plan • Flexible time off + 14 paid holidays (yes, your birthday is one of them!) • Work-from-home stipend to support your remote setup • Remote-first work environment, fostering work-life balance and autonomy • Company-provided equipment • Join a high-performing, mission-driven team doing work that truly matters • And much more!

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