Own end-to-end FA for units failing fixture, DVE, and qualification testing: intake, symptom capture, hypothesis-driven teardown, root cause, disposition, and corrective-action follow-through Build and maintain a failure-mode taxonomy for the hardware in scope and classify incoming failures against it, so root causes transfer between units instead of being re-derived every time Diagnose by signature, not by guesswork - isolate the failing domain (mechanical, electrical, firmware, thermal, process) using periodicity, load-vs-position behavior, electrical waveforms, calibration and configuration data, and environmental correlation Write and maintain analysis tooling (Python) that parses test-station reports and time-series logs to classify failure modes automatically at fleet/population scale Run fleet-level correlation studies to accept or refute candidate root causes, and document refuted leads as clearly as confirmed ones Drive nonconformance (NC) and CAPA workflows: file, triage, and close NCs; present findings at CCB / design review; feed pass-fail criteria improvements back into the test stations Partner with design ME/EE/FW on containment and permanent fixes, and with suppliers on incoming quality and process escapes Perform and interpret physical FA: precision teardown, dimensional/metrology inspection, wear and fracture surface inspection, optical/microscopy, and - where available - CT, SEM/EDX, and cross-sectioningBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience 5+ years of hands-on failure analysis, reliability, or test engineering on electromechanical hardware (motors and drives, gearboxes, precision mechanisms, consumer devices, instrumentation, or similar) Demonstrated root-cause methodology: 5-Why, fishbone, fault-tree, DOE, or equivalent, applied to real hardware failures you can talk through in detail Hands-on lab competence: DMM, oscilloscope, power supplies, load/test fixtures, DAQ Experience writing technical FA reports that enable design engineers to act on findings without additional clarification - FA reports that a design engineer can act on without a meeting Familiarity with motor control and firmware concepts: commutation, field-oriented control, current limits, calibration tables, and encoder error sources Working knowledge of BLDC/PMSM motors, gear trains, bearings, brakes, and position encoders Working knowledge of quality systems: 8D, PFMEA, DFMEA, control plans, MSA/Gage R&R Experience taking electromechanical assemblies - robotic joints and actuators, or comparable precision hardware - from prototype through DVT/PVT into production Experience querying and building on large test-data pipelines and dashboards Reliability engineering depth: HALT/HASS, Weibull and life-data analysis, rainflow/duty-cycle load-spectrum analysis, accelerated life testing Experience with metrology and analytical FA labs (CT, SEM/EDX, metallography, tribology)Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. This role owns failure analysis for hardware that fails design-verification, qualification, and production testing - from first symptom through root cause to a documented, transferable corrective action.