Staff Reliability Engineer, Quality Assurance

Job overview

Staff Reliability Engineer, Quality Assurance is an onsite role in San Jose, CA. The expected annual pay range is $136,000–$170,000, with bonus opportunities. The role supports Engineering at Renesas, an embedded semiconductor solutions provider. The engineer owns integrated-circuit product reliability and quality from development through production. By coordinating qualification testing, analyzing reliability data, investigating failures, and driving corrective and risk-mitigation actions, the role helps ensure products meet industry standards, customer expectations, and long-term performance requirements.

What you'll do

• Coordinate product reliability qualification, test scheduling, and data analysis for new product introduction, ongoing reliability testing, and quality incidents
• drive failure analysis and recommend corrective actions
• prepare qualification plans and reports for internal teams and customers
• investigate reliability issues and identify root causes
• collaborate on qualification, failure analysis, risk assessment, and proactive risk mitigation.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff reliability engineer

quality assurance

integrated circuits

semiconductor reliability

reliability qualification

failure analysis

root cause analysis

jedec

aec-q100

san jose ca

renesas

$136k–$170k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision
• health savings and flexible spending accounts
• commuter benefits
• life and AD&D insurance
• pet insurance
• long-term disability
• short-term medical benefits
• paid sick time, holidays, and accrued vacation.

Why this role

Requires an MS or PhD in a relevant field and at least 8 years of reliability engineering experience related to integrated circuits or semiconductor components. Relevant methods include HTOL, ELFR, HTDR/LTDR, ESD/LU, uHAST, TCT, HTSL, and BHAST; familiarity with JEDEC and AEC-Q100/Q006 standards is sought.

About the employer

Renesas is hiring for this role. Industry: Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables. Sector: 33.