Lead- Reliability Engineer

Job description

**Role:** Lead- Reliability Engineer **Location:** Hyderabad **Full/ Part-time:** Full Time **About Carrier** Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure safe transport of food, life-saving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of  everything we do. For more information, visit [corporate.carrier.com](https://www.carrier.com/) or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier. **About the role** - May propose changes in design or formulation to improve system and/or process reliability. - Builds and conducts dry running of basic qualification test set ups. - sCompiles and analyzes performance reports and process control statistics; investigates and analyzes relevant variables potentially affecting product performance and processes. - Liaises closely with other project team members in the areas such as stress, manufacturing, sourcing and configuration, with respect to new designs or design changes. **Key Responsibilities:**  **Reliability Modeling & Prediction** - Perform reliability predictions for electronic assemblies and systems using industry-standard methodologies. - Calculate: - MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) - Failure Rate (FIT) - Product Useful Life - Service Life Estimates - Reliability Growth Metrics - Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD) - Mission Reliability - Conduct reliability analysis using: - Telcordia SR-332 - MIL-HDBK-217F - IEC 61709 - FIDES methodologies - Perform component-level and assembly-level reliability assessments **System-Level Reliability Analysis** - Develop and maintain **system-level reliability models** for complete products and platforms. - Create reliability block diagrams — RBDs — for system architecture analysis. - Evaluate reliability of complete systems considering: - PCB assemblies - Sensors - Power supplies - Communication modules - Displays - Relays/contactors - Motors/fans - Connectors and harnesses - Mechanical/electromechanical interfaces - Analyze series, parallel, redundant, standby, and fail-safe architectures. - Calculate system reliability, availability, maintainability, and probability of failure over mission time. - Assess single-point failures and critical reliability contributors at system level. - Support architecture trade-off studies to improve system robustness, redundancy, serviceability, and product life. - Work with hardware, firmware, systems, mechanical, quality, compliance, and field teams to translate reliability risks into design actions **Product Lifetime & Wear-Out Analysis** - Estimate product useful life and service life based on operating profiles and field usage conditions. - Perform lifetime calculations for wear-out-sensitive components such as: - Electrolytic capacitors - Relays - Power semiconductors - Fans - Connectors - Batteries - Displays - Electromechanical parts - Apply appropriate models such as Arrhenius, Weibull, Coffin-Manson, thermal acceleration, voltage derating, and duty-cycle-based life models. - Evaluate environmental impact including temperature, humidity, vibration, cycling, load profile, and power-on hours. - Recommend design margins, derating guidelines, and component selection improvements **Field Data Analytics** - Analyze warranty claims, field returns, service records, and customer failure data. - Develop reliability dashboards and reliability KPIs. - Identify dominant failure modes and reliability trends. - Establish failure-rate distributions and reliability growth plans. - Generate actionable recommendations to improve product robustness. **Reliability Testing & Validation** - Define reliability validation plans for new product development and sustaining programs. - Support HALT, HASS, accelerated life testing, temperature cycling, humidity testing, vibration testing, power cycling, and environmental stress testing. - Correlate lab test results with predicted reliability and actual field performance. - Define sample size, test duration, confidence level, and acceptance criteria for reliability demonstration tests. - Support design verification and product qualification from a reliability perspective **Failure Analysis & Root Cause Investigation** - Support root cause investigations involving: - Field failures - Manufacturing defects - Component failures - Early-life failures - Perform statistical analysis of failures. - Work with hardware, firmware, component engineering, quality, manufacturing, and suppliers to implement corrective actions. **Reliability Tools & Data Management** - Utilize reliability prediction software and databases for analysis and reporting. Expertise in Relex, Reliasoft, Minitab, ITEM tool suite - Maintain reliability calculation models, assumptions, and documentation. - Develop automated reliability reporting tools and dashboards. - Support design reviews with quantitative reliability assessments **Requirements** Requires advanced knowledge obtained through a University degree, combined with experience Practical to substantial knowledge of Carrier organization, programs or systems with the ability to make enhancements and leverage in daily work University Degree or equivalent A minimum of 5 years prior relevant experience OR An advanced degree in a related field and a minimum of 3 years experience **Benefits**   We are committed to offering competitive benefits programs for all of our employees, and enhancing our programs when necessary.  - Make yourse