<div class="content-intro"><p>Agility’s commercially deployed humanoids operate alongside teams in warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and distribution centers—tackling physically demanding and repetitive tasks while enabling workers to focus on higher-value work. With industry-leading safety standards and years of proven deployment data, we're pioneering a new era of automation that enhances human potential.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Agility Robotics is at the forefront of humanoid robotics, redefining how robots interact with and navigate the human world. Our cutting-edge robots rely on advanced mechatronic systems—integrating precision actuators, high-performance motor controllers, multi-axis force/torque sensors, high-density PCBAs, cable harnesses, structural limbs, and dynamic end effectors—to execute complex tasks in demanding environments.<br><br>We are seeking a <strong>Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer</strong> with 5–8+ years of hands-on experience in <strong>mechatronics and electromechanical systems</strong> to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this hybrid role, you will be the core technical owner for the reliability of integrated humanoid drive systems and robotic actuation sub-assemblies. You will partner directly with mechatronics design, controls, embedded software, and manufacturing teams to drive reliability validation, lead multi-physics failure analyses, and build robust lifetime models for highly dynamic robotic hardware.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the Work</strong></span></h3> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Mechatronic Reliability Planning & DfR Integration</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Implement Design for Reliability (DfR) methodologies (DFMEA, FTA, component derating) across complex mechatronic loops, including drive trains, harmonic gearboxes, BLDC motors, encoder feedback systems, and dynamic wire harnesses.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Establish reliability targets, duty-cycle profiles, and environmental/mechanical stress acceptance criteria for actuators, sensors, power electronics, and end effectors.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate with control systems and mechatronics design teams to evaluate the reliability impact of control algorithms, dynamic braking, overload torque conditions, and thermal throttling regimes.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Advanced Mechatronic Testing & Lifetime Validation</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Design, build, and execute multi-axis accelerated stress testing setups, including HALT, HASS, dynamic load cycling, thermal shock, vibration, and ingress protection (IP) validation.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Develop custom dynamic test rigs to simulate real-world humanoid duty cycles (e.g., continuous walking, heavy payload lifting, impulse landing impacts, high-frequency oscillatory motion).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Apply statistical reliability tools (Weibull analysis, ALT/CALT models) and multi-physics degradation models (e.g., Coffin-Manson, Arrhenius, bearing/gear fatigue modeling) to predict drive system lifetime under dynamic field loads.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Failure Analysis & Closed-Loop Improvement</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead cross-functional Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for complex mechatronic failures across mechanical wear (gears, bearings), electrical degradation (FET switching, PCBA thermal fatigue), and signal/sensor degradation (encoder slip, harness flex failure).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Translate field telemetry, torque/temperature logs, and test bench failure data into actionable design revisions for next-generation humanoid architectures.</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About You</strong></span></h3> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Experience</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Minimum of 5 to 8+ years of experience in reliability engineering for complex hardware systems</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong preference for candidates with experience in robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, or other high-reliability industries</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Technical Expertise</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong understanding of mechatronic systems integrating mechanical structures, electronics, actuators, sensors, and control hardware.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated experience with reliability engineering principles including Design for Reliability, DFMEA/FMEA, accelerated-life testing, reliability demonstration, reliability g