Staff Reliability Engineer

About the Company

Peak Energy is the first American venture to advance globally proven Sodium-Ion battery systems as the storage standard for the new era of renewable energy on a resilient grid. Our leadership team is powered by decades of expertise in scaling gigawatt-level innovation at world-class companies.

Responsibilities

• Take independent DfR ownership for existing subsystem reliability and lead DfR for future products, focusing on HV electronics and power conversion
• Develop reliability test programs (DV, PV, ORT) by leading DFMEA and defining mission profiles
• Build custom Python reliability analysis and modeling tools to automate workflows
• Define reliability requirements and acceptance criteria at key program milestones
• Develop physics-of-failure lifetime models and perform failure root cause analysis
• Partner with the SIE team and suppliers to verify component quality and oversee outsourced testing
• Collaborate across teams to embed DfR principles into early architecture and manufacturing decisions

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, or Materials Science
• 5+ years of experience in hardware reliability engineering (power electronics, high-voltage, or consumer electronics)
• Strong understanding of statistics, physics-of-failure, and accelerated life testing
• Proficiency in Python for statistical analysis and modeling
• Strong technical communication and documentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high voltage batteries, DC-DC converters, inverters, or BMS
• Hands-on experience with electromechanical reliability tests (HALT, vibration, corrosion)
• Experience with PCBA failure analysis tools such as SEM and X-ray
• Experience using DOEs and field failure data for lifetime prediction models