Location: Huntsville, AL
Work Arrangement: On-Site
Employment Type: Direct Placement
Experience Level: Mid to Senior-Level
Clearance: Ability to Obtain and Maintain a U.S. Security Clearance
Position Overview
HRecruit is recruiting a Reliability Engineer for a direct placement opportunity in Huntsville, Alabama, supporting the development and sustainment of advanced defense and aerospace systems.
This position focuses on improving system reliability, availability, and maintainability throughout the engineering lifecycle. The Reliability Engineer will perform reliability assessments, failure analyses, modeling, and testing to help identify potential design weaknesses, reduce operational risks, and improve long-term system performance.
Working alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams, this individual will evaluate hardware and software reliability, support technical requirements, investigate failures, and recommend improvements that contribute to dependable, maintainable systems.
The ideal candidate brings at least five years of relevant engineering experience, strong analytical skills, and hands-on knowledge of reliability methodologies such as FMEA, FMECA, Fault Tree Analysis, and reliability block diagrams.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and support Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) plans and assessments throughout the product lifecycle.
- Support the development, allocation, verification, and validation of reliability and maintainability requirements.
- Perform reliability predictions, reliability block diagram modeling, and engineering trade studies to evaluate system performance and design alternatives.
- Conduct Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to identify failure risks and recommend improvements.
- Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, systems, software, manufacturing, and test engineering teams to address reliability concerns.
- Develop reliability test plans, procedures, and acceptance criteria, including sample size considerations and statistical confidence requirements.
- Support environmental testing, life testing, and reliability growth evaluations.
- Analyze laboratory test results and field performance data to identify failure trends, estimate service life, and assess reliability metrics.
- Investigate equipment and system failures, perform root cause analysis, and support corrective action verification.
- Use Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action Systems (FRACAS) or similar processes to track failures and support resolution.
- Evaluate maintainability requirements, repair procedures, and maintenance data to improve serviceability and sustainment planning.
- Prepare technical reports, RAM analyses, risk assessments, test documentation, and engineering recommendations.
- Participate in technical reviews, customer discussions, and engineering program milestones.
- Support compliance with applicable military standards, technical specifications, and program requirements.
- Contribute to technical trade studies, proposal efforts, and engineering improvement initiatives as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in reliability engineering, maintainability engineering, product assurance, or a related engineering discipline.
- Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles, probability, statistics, life distributions, and failure rate analysis.
- Experience conducting FMEA, FMECA, and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
- Experience developing reliability predictions, reliability block diagrams, and reliability or maintainability assessments.
- Experience evaluating test data or field failure information and performing root cause analysis to support corrective actions.
- Familiarity with reliability testing, environmental testing, and verification of complex hardware and software systems.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate technical findings and recommendations effectively to engineering teams and customers.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
- Ability to work on-site in Huntsville, Alabama.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Applied Statistics, or a related field.
- Experience supporting defense or aerospace systems and RAM program requirements.
- Familiarity with military reliability and environmental standards, including MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-HDBK-338, MIL-HDBK-472, or MIL-STD-810.
- Experience with reliability analysis and statistical tools such as ReliaSoft, Minitab, MATLAB, or Python.
- Knowledge of Weibull analysis, accelerated life testing, reliability growth testing, or Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT).
- Experience implementing or supporting FRACAS processes and closed-loop corrective action tracking.
- ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) certification.
- Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
About the Opportunity
This position offers the opportunity to contribute to complex defense and aerospace engineering programs by improving the reliability and long-term performance of mission-critical systems.
The Reliability Engineer will work across design, development, testing, and sustainment activities, helping engineering teams identify potential failure modes, evaluate system performance, and implement effective corrective actions.
This opportunity is well suited for an engineer who enjoys detailed technical analysis, multidisciplinary problem-solving, and applying reliability engineering principles to real-world hardware and software systems.
