Lead Reliability Test & Automation Architect | Contract | Irvine, CA

Lead Reliability Test & Automation Architect

Location: Irvine, CA Onsite
Job Type: Contract C2C / W2/ 1099
Experience: 12+ Years

Position Overview

We are seeking a Lead Reliability Test & Automation Architect to provide technical leadership for reliability testing, test-system architecture, and automation initiatives for complex engineered products.

The ideal candidate will combine strong reliability engineering, test automation, instrumentation, test fixture, and systems engineering experience with excellent customer-facing and technical leadership capabilities.

Experience with medical devices or other regulated products is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as the primary technical interface between customer stakeholders and engineering teams.
Lead technical discussions, workshops, requirements gathering, and solution-definition activities.
Collaborate with Product, Systems, Reliability, Test, Quality, Laboratory, Manufacturing, Service, IT, and Procurement teams.
Understand product architecture, test objectives, operating profiles, interfaces, constraints, standards, and approval requirements.
Define high-level test fixture and test automation architectures, including DUT, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, firmware, software, data, safety, and infrastructure interfaces.
Lead technical evaluation of existing test assets, reuse opportunities, modifications, and new development.
Coordinate with Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware/Automation, and Reliability engineering teams.
Review and consolidate technical inputs into a comprehensive test-system solution.
Define requirements, interfaces, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and technical decisions.
Lead preparation of WBS, resource plans, schedules, effort estimates, risks, assumptions, and implementation roadmaps.
Conduct technical reviews and ensure alignment across cross-functional engineering teams.
Present technical recommendations and solutions to customer stakeholders.
Drive closure of technical questions, action items, and scoping deliverables.

Required Qualifications

12+ years of engineering experience with strong reliability and test-system background.
Strong experience in Reliability Engineering and Product Reliability Testing.
Experience with test-system architecture and test automation.
Strong understanding of mechanical test fixtures, electrical instrumentation, DAQ, and automated test systems.
Understanding of embedded systems, firmware, hardware, and electrical interfaces.
Experience with requirements management, interface definition, trade-off analysis, and risk management.
Strong technical documentation and presentation skills.
Demonstrated customer-facing technical leadership experience.
Experience coordinating cross-functional or offshore engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Medical device, healthcare, laboratory, or other regulated-product development experience.
Experience with LabVIEW, NI TestStand, Python, MATLAB, or similar test automation technologies.
Experience with reliability qualification, environmental testing, life testing, or accelerated reliability testing.
Experience working with hardware/software/firmware integration and complex test infrastructure.

Lead Reliability Test & Automation Architect | Contract C2C | Irvine, CA - Onsite

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