Senior hardware verification,validation,reliability engineer

Role & responsibilities

Job Title: Senior Hardware Verification, Validation & Reliability Engineer (Motor Control Automotive)

Overall exp-5-12 Years

Relevant exp-7 Years

Location-Bangalore

Qualification- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Mechatronics or related discipline

Mandatory Skills- Design Verification & Product Validation, Hardware Verification, Reliability Engineering, EMC & Regulatory, Failure Analysis, Automotive hardware verification and reliability, ReliaSoft Lambda Predict, Weibull++, ALTA, MIL-HDBK-217F, IEC TR 62380, SN29500, FIDES, Minitab, JMP, MATLAB, Python(Anyone)

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Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Hardware Verification, Validation & Reliability Engineer with expertise in automotive motor control electronics. The role covers Design Verification (DV), Product Validation (PV), reliability engineering, accelerated life testing, failure analysis, lifetime prediction, qualification testing, external laboratory coordination, and production launch (SOP). Candidates should have successfully delivered at least two automotive production programs involving motor control ECUs or power electronics.

Key Responsibilities

Design Verification & Product Validation

Develop DVP, DVP&R, PVP, verification strategies, traceability matrix and qualification plans.

Execute functional, environmental, mechanical and reliability validation.

Verify against system requirements, DFMEA, safety goals and customer specifications.

Hardware Verification

Validate BLDC/PMSM motor controllers, inverter/power stage, gate drivers, DC-DC converters, sensing circuits, LIN/CAN interfaces, Hall/Resolver/Encoder interfaces and mixed-signal electronics.

Reliability Engineering

Perform MTTF, MTBF, FIT and Lambda prediction.

Conduct mission profile analysis, derating, stress-strength analysis and lifetime prediction.

Apply Weibull, Arrhenius and Coffin-Manson models.

Evaluate MOSFET, capacitor, PCB, solder joint and connector reliability.

Reliability & Environmental Qualification

HTOL, HALT, HASS, Burn-in, Endurance, Temperature Cycling, Thermal Shock, Humidity/HAST, Power Cycling, Load Cycling, Vibration, Mechanical Shock, Salt Fog, DMT and Mission Profile Validation.

Thermal characterization, thermal mapping, junction temperature measurement and IR thermal imaging.

EMC & Regulatory Qualification

Support CISPR 25, ISO 11452, ISO 7637, IEC 61000, LV124/LV148 and OEM-specific validation.

External Laboratory Coordination

Coordinate NABL/ISO17025/OEM-approved labs.

Prepare test requests and witness qualification testing.

Review reports, manage schedules, samples, budgets and support customer qualification.

Failure Analysis

Perform RCA, CAPA, board-level debugging and update DFMEA based on validation findings.

Mandatory Experience

5–12 years in automotive hardware verification and reliability.

Successfully launched at least two automotive production (SOP) programs.

Experience with DV, PV, PPAP, production readiness and external lab coordination.

Reliability Engineering Tools

ReliaSoft Lambda Predict, Weibull++, ALTA

Windchill Quality Solutions (Relex)

Isograph Reliability Workbench

Siemens Reliability Prediction

APIS IQ-FMEA, ReliaSoft XFMEA

Ansys medini analyze, exida FMEDA

Ansys Sherlock, Ansys Icepak, FloTHERM

Minitab, JMP, MATLAB, Python

MIL-HDBK-217F, IEC TR 62380, SN29500, FIDES

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Mechatronics or related discipline.

Success Criteria

Deliver robust automotive-qualified hardware, achieve first-pass qualification, coordinate external labs effectively, improve product reliability, and support successful PPAP and SOP.