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Palo Alto Senior Principal NPI Reliability Engineer 
United States, California 
728987610

24.06.2024
Description

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

  • Establishes the strategies for documenting the controls and processes related to NPI product quality and reliability
  • Is integral in Engineering Development and Production teams in work to introduce new products
  • Develops strategic initiatives to permanently eliminate quality and reliability issues
  • Drives data metrics and product field performance dashboard automation
  • Support executive level product quality and reliability reporting enabling product quality and reliability reviews
  • Provide technical support for failure analysis, for corrective & preventive action processes, as well as for statistical analysis such as sampling plans and comparing actual with expected outcomes
  • Provide technical support for electrical, electronic & mechanical component’s quality and reliability standards
  • Acts as a technical resource supporting root cause analysis down to chemistry and physics of failure
  • Uses structured problem solving techniques to resolve critical issues and product design problems
  • Mentors others and creates plans for mentorship of team members

Your Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree or higher in an applied science or engineering field or equivalent military experience required
  • 20+ years progressive experience in reliability engineering or reliability centered quality work for networking products
  • Strong statistical, data analysis, investigative and problem-solving skills
  • Multidisciplinary technology and scientific knowledge
  • Root cause failure analysis expertise including specifying and interpreting analyses including, for example, decapsulation, cross sectioning, photomicroscopy, CT Scan, SEM/EDX, XPS, GCMS and Ion Chromatography
  • Creating credible failure rate predictions for components from their operational descriptions is a plus
  • Has worked successfully directly with hardware, software and mechanical development teams
  • Design for reliability processes and quality improvement methodologies
  • Kepner-Tregoe problem solving method practitioner preferred
  • Experience with Quality Management Systems is a plus
  • Proficient with Reliasoft Lambda Predict
  • Willingness to travel when required

Other Skills

  • System level hardware product MTBF prediction experience is a must
  • Expert knowledge of Reliability and Quality Engineering tools such as Reliasoft tool suite or equivalent
  • Working knowledge of reliability testing such as HALT, HAST, ORT and Fault Insertion Testing
  • In depth understanding of Design for Excellence methodologies
  • Has been involved with process development, documentation and implementation including, but not limited to, NPI, DVT, DFx, ORT, HALT, Reliability & Risk Assessment, Failure Analysis, Root Cause & Corrective Action, etc.
  • Reviewing product requirements documentation ensuring customer useability, quality and reliability requirements are adequately represented
  • Ensure design and manufacturing problems found in previous products are eliminated from new projects

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $142,800/yr to $231,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .