Staff Reliability Engineer

Vicarious Surgical is hiring a Staff Reliability Engineer to join our team in Waltham, MA. As our company’s first reliability engineering professional, you will collaborate cross-functionally to develop a reliability plan, set reliability targets and  drive successful reliability improvements.  Your work will ultimately culminate  in our regulatory submission with supporting reliability data.  

Vicarious Surgical is a next generation robotics company developing a disruptive technology with the goal of increasing the efficiency of surgical procedure, improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs.

This is a terrific opportunity for an experienced reliability professional to join our company at a very exciting time and be a key member of a team of mission-driven and kind individuals with diverse experiences to lead Vicarious into its next phase of hyper-growth and market disruption.  

Responsibilities

• Understand and document reliability needs (market expectations, product life, downtime, MTBF)
• Develop system-level reliability models for highly complex electromechanical capital equipment
• Identify key risk areas (component-level, assembly-level)
• Develop and drive reliability improvement plans for the subsystems (design changes, testing)
• Develop detailed testing plans and execute those plans with an initial focus on key risk areas
• Provide leadership to other engineers and technicians assisting in reliability testing
• Track and communicate ongoing reliability-status updates
• Develop service and preventive maintenance recommendations
• Generate and execute plan to empirically validate reliability models in an FDA setting
• Represent the reliability facet of the regulatory submission to the FDA

About You

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical/Systems Engineering, Physics, or equivalent
• 8+ years of reliability engineering experience in a highly-regulated field (e.g., medical, aerospace, defense, automotive); candidates with more experience are encouraged to apply and may be considered at a Principal level
• Proven track record of excellence in the field of reliability
• Experience working on a product from early-stage (prototyping) through commercialization
• Experience designing, executing, and reporting tests
• Strong statistical analysis skills
• Able to work effectively in and be a resource for a multi-disciplinary team
• Able to work independently and autonomously when necessary
• Able to communicate effectively across disciplines and organizations
• Ability to review subcontractor test proposals for environmental and reliability testing
• Knowledgeable in electronic part stress analysis (PSA)