Member of Technical Staff, Reliability Engineer - Redmond, Washington, United States
$90,000 - $105,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 13 August 2026 by the employer.
Lumotive is pioneering the era of programmable optics with its Light Control Metasurface (LCM™) beam forming chips.
About the role
This role involves owning core LCM reliability at the chip level, defining stress test strategies, and acting as the authority on LCM failure modes, mechanisms, and lifetime. You will work with a "general purpose optic" that replaces bulky and mechanical optical components with a fully digital, reconfigurable semiconductor.
What you'll do
- Own core LCM reliability at the chip level: define the stress test strategy, execute it, and be the authority on LCM failure modes, mechanisms, and lifetime.
- Perform hands-on failure analysis: optical and electrical inspection, defect tracking and precursor identification, root-cause hypothesis generation and testing.
- Correlate reliability outcomes with wafer fab process splits, materials experiments, and assembly variables; drive design-of-experiments with process and fab partners.
- Develop and maintain the analysis tooling (Python, test databases, dashboards) that turns raw stress-test data into conclusions.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, materials science, or related fields.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in semiconductor or optoelectronic device reliability, failure analysis, or closely related roles.
- Hands-on failure analysis experience: optical microscopy, electrical characterization, and systematic root-cause investigation.
- Statistical reliability analysis skills: time-to-failure distributions (e.g., Weibull), acceleration modeling (e.g., Arrhenius), and lifetime projection.
- Proficiency in Python, JMP, or similar for data analysis of large reliability datasets.
Nice to have
- Master’s or PhD is preferred.
- Background in liquid crystal devices (LCoS, displays), MEMS, image sensors, photonics, or other emerging semiconductor device technologies.
- Familiarity with reliability and quality standards (JEDEC, AEC-Q100) and how to adapt them to devices they were not written for.
- Experience running split-lot design-of-experiments with wafer fabs or materials vendors to improve reliability.
- Experience defining burn-in and production screening for early-failure elimination.
- Experience with test data infrastructure: databases, Tableau or similar dashboards, Git and software development best practices.
Skills: LCM reliability, stress test strategy, accelerated life tests, failure analysis, statistical lifetime models, JEDEC, AEC-Q100
This role has been open 74 days — well above the 55-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
467
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$150k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Lumotive | All employers we track in this specialty (467 roles · 74 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 467 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 5 | 10147 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 74 d | 55 d (+19 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $150k |
Skills observed across this category: LCM reliability, stress test strategy, accelerated life tests, failure analysis, statistical lifetime models, JEDEC, AEC-Q100
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 79 open roles · median 116 d
- Infineon Technologies · 34 open roles · median 40 d
- Renesas Electronics · 26 open roles · median 32 d
- STMicroelectronics · 19 open roles · median 26 d
- Analog Devices · 18 open roles · median 67 d
- Applied Materials · 18 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 467 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 74 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.