Reliability Design Engineer

Job Overview

We are seeking a Reliability Design Engineer to build the test infrastructure that predicts and prevents failures in our home robotics products before they reach customers. This hands-on hardware role involves designing, fabricating, and running test rigs, fixtures, and accelerated torture tests to reproduce real-world failure modes and push designs past their limits.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, fabricate, and iterate electromechanical test rigs, fixtures, and automated setups that reproduce field failure modes and stress our designs to failure


• Build accelerated life, fatigue, vibration and shock, and temperature and humidity tests across motors, mechanisms, and electronics


• Wire up and integrate the actuators, motor drivers, sensors, and data acquisition that bring each test setup to life and capture clean, analyzable failure data


• Write scripts to automate test execution and data logging so tests run reliably and repeatably at volume


• Partner with reliability engineers to translate physics of failure and field insight into representative test methods


• Support root cause failure analysis by designing the apparatus and experiments that isolate failure mechanisms


• Create and maintain CAD models, drawings, and documentation for all test equipment


• Scale and maintain the reliability lab as our fleet, hardware versions, and test volume grow


• Work cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, software, quality, production, and supply chain teams to close the loop from potential failure to design fix

Required Qualifications

• Technical degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, or a related hardware discipline


• 2+ years of hardware design engineering experience, ideally on a physical product that has shipped in volume


• Proven ability to build, fabricate, and rapidly iterate physical prototypes and test setups


• Proficiency in CAD


• Hands-on comfort across electromechanical systems: actuators, motor control, sensors, and basic circuit work, data acquisition, and instrumentation


• Working proficiency with a scripting language such as Python for test automation and data handling


• Exposure to reliability and test concepts such as accelerated testing, fatigue, life testing, DOE, or FMEA is a plus


• Comfort with a fast-paced, startup atmosphere where you take ownership of ambiguous problems


• High level of maturity, ownership, and pride in your work

About Maticrobots

At Matic, we’re on a mission to recapture the 2.5 trillion hours spent on household chores by revolutionizing home robotics. Our first product, also called Matic, is a Wall-E-esque floor cleaning robot with real-time 3D mapping, adaptive path-tracking, and precise semantic understanding of the home. We prioritize privacy by design, with all data processing performed by the robot itself, not in the cloud. Our culture is tight-knit and collaborative, focused on building products our customers will cherish.

Benefits

Actual Compensation will depend on skills, experience and qualifications. Base Salary is one part of the total compensation package. The role is also eligible for equity through the company’s discretionary equity program, along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage access to a 401(k) plan.