Principal Reliability & Maintainability Engineer - Product Safety (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2026-01-07

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HTX36: Richardson, TX 3200 E Renner Rd , Richardson, TX, 75082-2402 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond?

Our Product Safety team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Our industry-leading experts are setting the standards for the aerospace industry and paving the way for the future. But as new challenges present themselves, we need fresh, creative and motivated minds to overcome these hurdles, help us break barriers and achieve new levels of innovation. Do you have what it takes to join a global organization that doesn’t shy away from big opportunities? If so, we invite you to join our ranks and create the next generation of aerospace technologies.

Together, we will nurture an engineering culture that values intellectual curiosity, risk takers and integrity. A place where we will challenge ourselves, our teams, and the status quo and where we will work to find a way – the right way – to achieve what others can only dream of.

We are currently searching for a Principal Reliability & Maintainability Engineer to join our team in Richardson, TX or Cedar Rapids, IA.

What YOU will do:

• Supports program development through the application of reliability and maintainability techniques.

• Participates in all phases of program life cycle, utilizing reliability and maintainability methodologies as they apply in our systems engineering processes in accordance with military standards such as MIL-HDBK-217, MIL-HDBK-338B, MIL-HDBK-470, MIL-STD-1629A.

• Leads reliability and maintainability modeling and predictions analysis, testability analysis, maintainability and built-in-test demonstrations, environmental testing, FMEA/FMECA, and FRACAS.

• Conducts/develops Reliability allocations, Reliability Block Diagrams, Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability & Maintainability analysis and predictions, Reliability Critical Items List, and Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS)

• Serves as a Reliability & Maintainability subject matter expert to engineering and business leadership

Qualifications YOU Must Have:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience

• Active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain Top Secret after start.

• Two (2) years of experience with systems engineering lifecycle, with knowledge of how to apply reliability and maintainability techniques to systems requirements

• One (1) year of demonstrated experience supporting design and development teams to develop, assess, and verify Reliability & Maintainability related requirements for mission-critical systems

• Three (3) years of experience in conducting/developing Failure Modes Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Reliability & Maintainability analysis and predictions, Reliability Critical Items List, and Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS), Built In Test (BIT) design / verification analysis, and/or testability analysis

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Knowledge of systems architectures and designs

• Knowledge of basic circuit analysis and the ability to perform detailed analyses on complex systems

• Understanding of military aircraft-related missions, functional operation, performance specifications, and validation techniques

• Experience planning and conducting Accelerated Stress Testing, or a willingness to learn and apply those techniques, such as Highly Accelerated Lif