Reliability Engineer / Failure Analysis

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has an opportunity in Santa Clara, CA for a Reliability/Failure Analysis Engineer. In this important role, you will collaborate with a diverse team of technical professionals and interact with outside customers, providing solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity. The successful candidate will be flexible, motivated, dedicated, detail-focused, team-oriented, and capable of multi-tasking.
The Reliability/Failure Analysis Engineer will perform technical planning, integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and reliability and effectiveness analyses for microwave high power amplifier (HPA) products (SSPA < TWTA).

Responsibilities include:

• Analyses performed at all levels of product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal
• Ensure the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into product solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
• Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, and requirements allocation studies to translate customer requirements into hardware implementation and test procedures
• Acquire and integrate actual product RMA (Reliability/Failure Analysis)data into mathematical models to project new product RMA characteristic
• Conduct R&M testing and statistical evaluation of test data
• Review equipment failure data, identifies RMA problems and assesses corrective action
• Execute Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analyses and Fault Tree Analyses
• Perform/Facilitate hardware/software Failure Analysis and corrective actions for both manufacturing in-process and field return product failures
• Coordinate/facilitate supplier Failure Analysis and corrective actions
• Prepare formal reports and presentations to customers describing the results of the analyses and assessments

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical or electrical engineering, math, physics, computer science, or related STEM discipline
• Two or more years of full-time engineering experience
• Experience in RMA engineering or analysis of engineering processes
• Demonstrated ability to perform system level trade studies
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Desired Skills:

• Reliability and/or System Safety experience in a diversity of sophisticated electrical and mechanical systems

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.