Senior Engineer, Reliability

Badger Meter - Where Every Drop Counts and So Do You At Badger Meter, we're more than a leading global water technology company - we're innovators with a mission: to preserve and protect the world's most precious resource. For over 120 years, our trusted solutions have enabled our customers to optimize the delivery and use of water, maximize revenue and reduce waste. Every employee at Badger Meter is an important part of our success. Here, your work doesn't just move a business forward - it shapes a more sustainable future. We are committed to building a workplace where we celebrate differences, empower voices, and encourage fresh ideas that drive innovation. When you join us, you'll find: Purpose-driven work that makes a real difference in communities around the globe. Career growth and development opportunities designed to help you achieve your potential. A supportive, inclusive culture where collaboration and creativity thrive. Be part of something bigger. At Badger Meter, your contributions will ripple far beyond the workplace - creating lasting change for people and the planet. What You Will Contribute: Serves as Badger Meter's technical authority for reliability engineering, converting product life and performance expectations into defensible acceptance criteria, acceleration models, executable test plans and field-validated evidence. This senior individual contributor owns design validation planning for new platforms and influences release decisions through rigorous analysis and clear technical judgment. Job Duties: Set and maintain standards for reliability assumptions, statistics, methods and documentation supporting product claims. Translate service-life, duty-cycle and warranty expectations into measurable reliability requirements and acceptance criteria. Develop executable test plans defining stress profiles, samples, instrumentation, failure criteria, stop criteria and analysis methods. Design and lead HALT, HASS, HASA, accelerated life and step-stress testing appropriate to product risks and use environments. Determine statistically defensible sample sizes, test durations, confidence levels and reliability demonstration approaches. Develop and defend acceleration factors using physics-of-failure models and validate assumptions when risk warrants. Evaluate corner cases, tolerance extremes and combined environmental or duty-cycle conditions that may set design limits. Own the Design Validation Plan for new platforms, including requirements traceability, DFMEA alignment, execution status and release recommendations. Analyze reliability data using Weibull and other life-distribution methods, censored data, confidence bounds, DOE, regression and hypothesis testing. Integrate warranty, field return, RMA and installed-base data to compare predicted and realized reliability and improve future validation. Lead failure analysis through root cause, corrective action and effectiveness verification within the FRACAS process. Partner with Design, Manufacturing, Quality, Product Management, suppliers and laboratories to embed reliability throughout development and production. Build repeatable analysis tools, structured data, dashboards and reporting standards that improve reproducibility and decision quality. Mentor engineers and technicians, represent reliability in reviews and audits, and communicate evidence, uncertainty and risk to technical and business audiences. Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Materials, Reliability, Industrial Engineering or a related discipline. 5+ years of hardware product-development engineering experience, including reliability engineering, accelerated testing and life data analysis. ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer; Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt. Qualifications: Demonstrated expertise in HALT, HASS, ALT, step-stress testing, reliability demonstration and design validation planning. Strong applied statistics, acceleration modeling, physics of failure and technical influence without direct authority. Experience with metering, sensors, battery-powered electronics or long-service-life hardware is preferred. Knowledge of applicable industry standards; and experience with ReliaSoft, Minitab, JMP or relevant scripting tools is preferred. Competencies: Collaboration: Work collaboratively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives. Communication: Convey information and ideas clearly and concisely to individuals or groups in an engaging manner that helps them understand and retain the message; listen actively to others. Initiating Action: Take prompt action to accomplish work goals; take action to achieve results beyond what is required; be proactive. Work Standards: Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed. Competitive Total Rewards at Badger Meter: Competitive Pay Annual Bonus Eligible for Annual Pay Increases Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage 15 days Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays Two Ways to Save for Retirement: Badger Meter contributes 25 cents for every dollar you contribute to the plan, up to 7% of your eligible compensation. In addition to the match, the company will also contribute 5% of your eligible compensation to your Defined Contribution account on an annual basis. Additional access to a certified financial planner to help ensure your money is working for you, at no cost! Employer Paid benefits including: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Basic Group Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, and more Educational Assistance – Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 Voluntary benefits including : Additional Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness coverage Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Applicants can learn more about their rights regarding equal opportunity in employment by viewing the federal "EEO is the Law" poster and the “EEO is the Law” poster supplement at Badger Meter complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local disability laws. 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