Position Overview
The Senior Reliability and Quality Engineer leads reliability and quality strategies for internally designed data center infrastructure products. This role partners with engineering teams to develop and execute testing and validation programs for mission critical cooling and electrical systems, including CRAC units, chillers, liquid cooling, PDUs, UPS systems, and power distribution equipment. Responsibilities include reliability testing, failure analysis, supplier quality coordination, and ensuring compliance with industry standards such as UL, CE, IEC, and ASHRAE to support high availability data center environments
Key Responsibilities:
Reliability Strategy
- Define reliability and quality requirements for new data center infrastructure products and develop testing strategies throughout the product lifecycle
Reliability Testing and Validation
- Develop and execute validation programs including accelerated life testing, environmental stress screening, thermal cycling, vibration testing, and electrical safety validation
Failure Analysis and Continuous Improvement
- Conduct FMEA and root cause analysis to resolve design or manufacturing issues and improve long term product performance
Supplier Quality Management
- Work closely with contract manufacturers and suppliers to implement reliability testing, quality checkpoints, and manufacturing validation processes
Cross Functional Collaboration
- Partner with engineering, project management, procurement, commissioning, and compliance teams to ensure reliability standards are built into product development
Compliance and Certification
- Support certification processes and ensure products meet applicable standards including UL, CE, IEC, ASHRAE, and other data center industry requirements
Performance Monitoring
- Analyze field performance data, warranty claims, and customer feedback to identify trends and improve product reliability
- Up to 40 percent travel to vendor locations, manufacturing facilities, and data center sites. Work may occur in office environments, manufacturing facilities, or active construction sites
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Quality Engineering, or a related field
- 10 or more years of experience in reliability engineering, quality engineering, or product validation with mission-critical electromechanical systems
- Strong experience with reliability testing including accelerated life testing, environmental stress screening, vibration testing, HALT or HASS, and electrical safety validation
- Deep understanding of FMEA, root cause analysis methodologies, and quality management systems
- Experience working with external manufacturers and supplier quality programs
- Knowledge of data center infrastructure equipment such as cooling systems or electrical distribution equipment preferred
Expected Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000 Base Salary + Discretionary Bonus
Tract Capital Employment
Tract Capital employees enjoy competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, including 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401K program, standard paid holidays, and unlimited PTO.
NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties to meet the organization's ongoing needs.
Tract Capital is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance applying for any of our open positions, please contact us at
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