Your new role and your team

artificial intelligence haven, A global leader in building dexterity-based physical AI for general-purpose robotics, is looking to hire a skilled and enthusiastic Senior Reliability Engineer to join our Operations team. The Senior Reliability Engineer is an important part of our team, supporting product marketing, NPI and high volume manufacturing. Reporting to the Head of Operations, you will contribute to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our growing organization.

As a Sanctuary AI Reliability Engineer, you will be an important part of the team where you will support continuous improvement in our operations function, own the coordination of team project deliverables, and innovate best practices that drive continuous improvements in our product marketing, NPI and volume manufacturing.

This is a high impact role with strong ownership. You will shape how reliability and quality practices are integrated throughout the design, development and production workflow

Our success criteria

• Develop process procedures and tools for Design for Reliability (DFR) of highly complex electromechanical systems.
• Perform reliability analysis and modeling to predict system performance and recommend design changes to enhance expected reliability.
• Develop and implement reliability testing plans.
• Perform failure mode analysis and its effects 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 improve product maintenance strategies to ensure reliable operations.
• Conduct root cause analysis of system failure.
• 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 improvement of process controls using risk management tools such as PFMEA.
• Take ownership of Sanctuary’s building reliability systems and processes in a clean slate environment where few formal systems exist today.

Your experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Reliability Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, or similar discipline.
• 5+ years in reliability engineering, ideally in 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 in problem solving, root cause analysis and analytical troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of mechanical and hydraulic assembly and complex machinery.
• Applied Design of Experiments (DOE) experience.
• Demonstrated application of data analysis and statistical tools in manufacturing (MiniTab experience a plus).
• Professional Engineering (PE) license is a plus, but not required.
• Certifications in Reliability Engineering such as CRE are a plus.

skills

• 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 solve complex operational challenges
• – Experience in statistical analysis programs
• Experience in designing and conducting reliability testing, validation protocols, and accelerated life testing (HALT/HASS)
• Knowledge of reliability forecasting software tools.
• Familiarity with industry standards (e.g. ISO 9001)
• Excellent problem-solving and analysis skills.
• Strong understanding of reliability principles, modeling and testing techniques
• Technical proficiency in interpreting data sheets/specifications and understanding manufacturing processes
• Understand sourcing agreements and vendor quality
• Detail oriented with a continuous improvement mindset
• Excellent time management and task juggling skills
• Comfortable working in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines
• Able to multi-task and balance independent work with cross-functional collaboration

Features

• Positive attitude and willingness to do what it takes to achieve mission objectives
• Takes personal responsibility and accountability
• An empathetic listener who focuses on solutions in work and relationships
• Strong bias for action and effective communication
• Self-leadership with the ability to work through ambiguity
• Mission driven and passionate about developing physical AI
• This role has strong potential to grow into a team leadership or management position as our Reliability function expands over time.

Working in the Grand Mosque of Mecca Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; Employment at Sanctuary AI is based on skills, competency and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, sex, 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 benefits Sanctuary AI offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, including health coverage, paid time off, state-of-the-art work facilities, and work location flexibility depending on the role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently exceeds market standards.

Around the sanctuary Founded in 2018, Sanctuary AI is building humanoid robots and a new control system that integrates symbolic logic and reasoning with data-driven robotics foundation models. We use our robots to collect vision, audio, touch, and proprioception data from the robot’s perspective as they perform work tasks in the real world. We use this data to train foundation models for the multimodal robot. Because our systems are vertically integrated, we can design, deploy, and optimize at scale. Our mission is to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.