Electrification Reliability Engineer

Position: Electrification Reliability Engineer

Domain: Automotive

Job Type: Permanent/Contract

Location: Hybrid – Project Site Bangalore, India.

Key Responsibilities:

The Reliability Engineer for Traction Battery Systems is responsible for ensuring robust, durable, and safe performance of highvoltage battery packs across the full development lifecycle. You will lead structured reliability analysis, define verification strategies, model degradation behaviour, and drive crossfunctional issue resolution. The role requires strong technical depth in battery systems, analytical rigour, and the ability to influence design teams through datadriven reliability insights.

Design Reliability & Structured Analysis

• Lead and review DFMEA, DRBFM, FMA, and other structured reliability and riskassessment activities.
• Ensure reliability requirements, mitigations, and lessons learned are embedded into design releases.
• Provide earlyphase reliability input into system architecture, component selection, and design tradeoffs.

Verification Strategy & DVP Ownership

• Define, set, and maintain Design Verification Plans (DVPs) for battery packs, modules, and subsystems.
• Create detailed test procedures, acceptance criteria, and instrumentation strategies for reliability, durability, and abuse testing.
• Monitor reliability target assessment at successive development gateways, ensuring maturity progression and risk closure.

Failure Analysis & Mechanism Identification

• Lead rootcause investigations for failures observed in CAE, validation, or field operation.
• Identify and model failure mechanisms including thermal, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and ageingrelated degradation pathways.
• Drive corrective actions and design improvements using structured reliability engineering methods.

Reliability Modelling & Prediction

• Develop and maintain reliability models (Weibull analysis, degradation modelling, life prediction, reliability block diagrams).
• Quantify reliability risks and forecast longterm performance using physicsoffailure and datadriven approaches.
• Support reliability target setting and compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.

Battery Degradation & Lifecycle Analysis

• Lead analysis of battery ageing, including calendar ageing, cycle ageing, SEI growth, impedance rise, and capacity fade.
• Validate degradation models with supplier data, CAE predictions, and physical test results.
• Provide insights to design, thermal, controls, and BMS teams to optimize battery life, warranty performance, and customer usage robustness.

Quality & Current Reliability Projects

• Own reliability deliverables for current production and development programmes.
• Drive crossfunctional quality improvement initiatives, including field issue reduction, warranty analysis, and reliability KPIs.
• Represent reliability engineering in programme reviews, supplier discussions, and senior management forums.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with Battery Design, CAE, Thermal, BMS, Safety, Manufacturing, and Supplier Quality teams.
• Act as the primary reliability interface for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment across engineering and programme functions.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, Automotive, or Reliability Engineering.
• Strong technical background in traction battery systems, cell chemistry, pack design, and BMS interactions.
• Proven experience in reliability or quality engineering within automotive or highreliability industries.
• Deep understanding of DFMEA, DRBFM, FMA, rootcause analysis, and structured problemsolving.
• Experience with reliability modelling tools (Weibull++, Reliasoft, Pythonbased modelling, etc.).
• Knowledge of battery degradation mechanisms, ageing models, and validation methods.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a rigorous approach to data interpretation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to influence senior stakeholders.
• Proactive, selfdriven, and able to manage multiple technical streams simultaneously.
• Knowledge of System Safety is highly desirable. Safety Standard ISO26262 Experience &/Or Certification