Senior Reliability Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential industrial robotics organization that is scaling rapidly across Europe and the United States. Our talent team is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer based in Munich to serve as the technical authority ensuring system-level robustness and long-term endurance across modular robotic platforms.

In this role, you will work cross-functionally across hardware design, physical testing, and field operations, translating real-world data into actionable design changes and world-class reliability standards. If something is broken, you fix it. If something can be automated, you build it.

Responsibilities

• Direct the multi-year reliability and endurance test roadmap, serving as the technical authority for the physical test team executing it
• Close the loop against field and service data, translating operational insights into optimized maintenance intervals, spare-part strategies, and concrete design changes
• Own system-level reliability across core products and module families, building Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs) to aggregate component data into module-, arm-, and system-level reliability targets at defined confidence levels
• Set reliability requirements early and rigorously enforce them during design reviews to actively shape and refine product architecture
• Drive failure mode identification by leading DFMEA and FMEDA sessions at system and module levels, while spearheading root-cause analyses for real-world failures
• Execute deep statistical analyses, calculating MTBF/MTTF for random failures and L10/B10 wear-out life for bearings, gears, and brakes while defending underlying assumptions
• Evaluate data integrity with sharp engineering judgment, knowing precisely when data is decision-grade versus a placeholder to guide leadership decisions

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• Completed vocational training or degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Physics, or comparable experience
• Several years of experience in reliability engineering focused on complex electro-mechanical products
• Strong ownership and growth mindset, pragmatic working style and analytical rigor to reach defensible conclusions from incomplete evidence
• Very good English skills (German is a plus)
• Practical command of RBD modeling, MTBF/MTTF prediction, L10/B10 life calculation, and hands-on FMEA/FMEDA experience

Preferred experience:

• Background in robotics, industrial automation, automotive, aerospace, or medical devices
• Domain knowledge of servo drivetrains (gearboxes, bearings, brakes) and their specific failure modes
• Familiarity with functional safety standards (ISO 13849, IEC 61508, IEC 62061, or ISO 26262) or standard series like IEC 60300, IEC 61709, or SN 29500
• Experience with specialized reliability tools and software (ReliaSoft, Isograph, Windchill Quality, SISTEMA, Minitab, or Python/R) and applying Weibull analysis to real-world data
• Experience working with modular or configurable product families where reliability must be calculated per configuration

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our recruiting team will screen your application and coordinate directly with you throughout the process. We will then submit qualified candidates to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication should flow through our team to ensure a smooth and professional experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and will be competitive with the Munich market for this level of experience and responsibility.

Equal Opportunity

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