Senior Reliability Design Engineer (Teradyne, San Jose, CA)
$155,500 - $248,900 USD yearly
Originally posted 30 July 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 17 September 2026.
About the role
You will partner with instrumentation, automation, and system design teams to apply Design for Reliability (DfR) methodology and improve product robustness.
What you'll do
- Lead Design for Reliability (DfR) activities throughout product development.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify, assess, and mitigate reliability risks for complex electrical and electromechanical systems.
- Apply reliability modeling, prediction, growth, and derating methods to improve system performance.
- Perform failure analysis, root cause investigations, and corrective action activities to improve product reliability.
- Collaborate with design teams to evaluate new technologies and influence design decisions.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of reliability engineering experience supporting the design of electrical and electromechanical systems.
- Experience leading or facilitating Design FMEA (DFMEA) activities and Design for Reliability initiatives.
- Knowledge of reliability prediction, reliability growth, reliability budgeting, and component derating techniques.
- Experience performing failure analysis, root cause investigations, and environmental stress testing.
- Proficiency with reliability and statistical analysis tools such as Weibull++, BlockSim, Alta, or similar platforms.
- Experience using engineering simulation and analysis tools, including Ansys Sherlock and Ansys Mechanical.
- Working knowledge of electronic test and measurement equipment, including oscilloscopes, DMMs, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators.
Nice to have
- PhD in Reliability Engineering or related discipline.
- Experience with Automated Test Equipment (ATE) or semiconductor test systems.
- Experience with fault-tolerant architectures, redundancy analysis, and predictive maintenance methodologies.
- Experience designing reliability test fixtures and developing test procedures.
Skills: Design for Reliability, HALT, accelerated life testing, failure analysis, reliability modeling
This role has been open 80 days — well above the 54-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
425
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$154k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Teradyne | All employers we track in this specialty (425 roles · 71 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 425 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 110 | 9897 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 54 d (−8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $154k |
Skills observed across this category: Design for Reliability, HALT, accelerated life testing, failure analysis, reliability modeling
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 75 open roles · median 135 d
- Infineon Technologies · 31 open roles · median 45 d
- Renesas Electronics · 22 open roles · median 39 d
- STMicroelectronics · 19 open roles · median 25 d
- Analog Devices · 18 open roles · median 54 d
- onsemi · 17 open roles · median 72 d
How we counted: 425 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 71 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 18 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.