Manager, Product Reliability

<div class="content-intro"><p>Divergent is a technology company that has architected, invented, built, and commercialized an end-to-end factory system called the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS) that comprehensively uses machine learning to optimally engineer, additively manufacture, and flexibly assemble complex integrated vehicle structures and subsystems. Products created using DAPS are superior in performance, lower in cost, rapidly customizable to meet mission and customer-specific requirements, faster to market, and scalable on demand to high volume production. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs, and Divergent is now expanding to support mission critical needs in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Join us to be a part of this transformative journey, where your impact will shape the future of technology and production.</p></div><p><strong>Purpose</strong></p> <p>The Manager, Product Reliability (DTI) is responsible for driving build quality and mission success across Divergent’s products by leading a team of engineers focused on reliability, validation, and risk management.</p> <p>This role partners closely with cross-functional teams to ensure products meet performance, reliability, and program requirements. You will help translate customer needs into actionable quality and reliability plans, support program execution, and drive structured problem-solving for failures and system issues.</p> <p>As a people leader and technical contributor, you will reinforce a reliability-first mindset, ensure consistent execution of product quality processes, and support the scaling of reliable outcomes across Divergent’s technologies and operations.</p> <p><strong>The Role</strong></p> <p><strong>Team Leadership &amp; Execution</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product reliability engineers, fostering strong technical execution and accountability</li> <li>Provide day-to-day guidance, prioritization, and performance management for the team</li> <li>Support hiring and onboarding engineers as the team scales</li> <li>Reinforce best practices in reliability engineering, risk management, and problem-solving</li> </ul> <p><strong>Program &amp; Cross-Functional Partnership</strong></p> <ul> <li>Act as the primary reliability partner to Program Management and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) at the program level</li> <li>Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure alignment between requirements, design intent, and production capability</li> <li>Support interpretation of customer and regulatory requirements and ensure they are translated into clear, verifiable product quality objectives</li> <li>Escal