Senior Reliability Engineer
Vancouver, BC
Corporate – Operations /
Full-Time /
On-site
Your New Role and Team
Sanctuary AI, a world leader in building dexterity-driven Physical AI for general purpose robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Senior Reliability Engineer to join our Operations team. The Senior Reliability Engineer is a crucial part of our team, supporting product commercialization, NPI and volume manufacturing.. Reporting to the Head of Operations,, you’ll contribute to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our growing organization.
As Sanctuary AI’s Reliability Engineer , you'll be a valued part of the team as you support the continued improvement in our Operations function, own the coordination of team project deliverables, and innovate best practices that drive continuous improvements in our product commercialization, NPI and volume manufacturing.
This is a high-impact role with strong ownership. You’ll shape how reliability and quality practices are embedded throughout our design, development, and production workflows
Our Success Criteria
- Develop processes procedures and tools for Design for Reliability (DFR) for highly complex electromechanical systems.
- Perform reliability analysis and modeling to predict system performance and recommend design changes to enhance predicted reliability.
- Develop and implement reliability test plans.
- Conduct failure mode and effects analysis on critical subsystems and component designs (FMEA & DFMEA).
- Monitor system performance and identify reliability issues.
- Collaborate with design engineering teams from early concept through validation to improve product reliability.
- Develop and refine product maintenance strategies to ensure reliable operations.
- Perform root cause analysis of system failures.
- Provide technical guidance and training to other team members on reliability and DFR
- Develop and maintain reliability metrics and reports.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Own the development and refinement of process controls using risk management tools such as PFMEA.
- Take ownership of building Sanctuary’s reliability systems and processes in a clean-slate environment where few formal systems exist today.
- Bachelor's degree in reliability engineering, mechanical, electrical or industrial engineering or similar discipline.
- 5+ years in reliability engineering, ideally within robotics, medical devices, aerospace, or other complex electromechanical systems.
- Excellent project management and cross-functional team leadership skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at any level.
- Experience with problem-solving, root cause analysis, and analytical troubleshooting
- Working knowledge of mechanical assembly, hydraulics, and complex machining.
- Applied Design of Experiments (DOE) experience
- Demonstrated application of data analysis and statistical tools in manufacturing (MiniTab experience a plus).
- Professional Engineering (PE) license a plus, though not required.
- Certifications in reliability engineering such as CRE a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to collaborate and partner with key stakeholders within the Engineering and Product Development organization.
- Familiarity with cross-functional team project management
- Ability to analyze and problem solve complex operational challenges
- Experience with statistical analysis software
- Experience in designing and conducting reliability testing, validation protocols, and accelerated life testing (HALT/HASS)
- Knowledge of reliability prediction software tools.
- Familiarity with industry standards (e.g. ISO 9001)
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Solid understanding of reliability principles, modeling techniques, and testing
- Technical competence in interpreting datasheets/specs and understanding manufacturing processes
- Understanding of sourcing agreements and vendor quality
- Detail-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset
- Excellent time management and task juggling skills
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines
- Able to multitask and balance independent work with cross-functional collaboration
- Positive attitude and a willingness to do what it takes to meet mission objectives
- Takes personal responsibility and accountability
- Empathic listener who is solution-focused in work and relationships
- Strong bias for action and effective communication
- Self-driven with the ability to work through ambiguity
- Mission-driven and passionate about advancing physical AI
- This role has strong potential to grow into a team leadership or management position as our reliability function scales over time.
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Working at SanctuarySanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
Compensation and BenefitsSanctuary AI offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently surpasses market standards.
About SanctuaryFounded in 2018, Sanctuary AI builds humanoid robots and a novel control system for them that integrates symbolic logic and reasoning with data-driven robot foundation models. We use our robots to collect vision, audio, touch, and proprioception data from the perspective of the robot while they perform real-world work tasks. We use that data to train multimodal robot foundation models. Because our systems are vertically integrated, we can design, deploy, and refine at scale. Our mission is to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.
