Senior Reliability Engineer

Job description

**About Moment Energy** Independent energy is here. Help us deploy it. Energy should be free. Free from aging grids, fragile supply chains, and unnecessary extraction. At Moment Energy, we’re building a world where clean power is abundant, affordable, and uninterrupted for everyone. The world doesn’t need another promise about energy; it needs proof that a freer future is possible. Moment Energy is the pragmatic liberator of power, the only company certified to turn the largest untapped energy supply into independent energy. Now is the moment. While the industry scraps millions of batteries with decades of life left, we put them to work by repurposing large-format batteries into advanced battery energy storage systems that deliver real-world impact. We were told second-life batteries would never be safe enough or scalable enough. We didn’t argue, we engineered the solution. Today, Moment Energy delivers 5x the energy density and holds the certifications required to deploy energy independence at scale. **Now is the moment. Join us.** **The Opportunity** We are seeking a **Senior Reliability Engineer** to help ensure the long-term reliability, durability, and performance of Moment Energy's battery energy storage systems (BESS). In this role, you will develop reliability models, translate field and simulated operating conditions into mission profiles, and help predict product life and identify potential failure mechanisms. You will also support failure analysis investigations and prepare technical reliability reports that demonstrate product performance to our customers. This is an opportunity to contribute to the development and improvement of our reliability engineering practices as we scale our second-life battery technology. You will work closely with engineering, testing, and product development teams to turn operating data into actionable engineering insights and help improve confidence in our products. **Responsibilities and Duties** - Develop and apply reliability methodologies to assess product durability, expected service life, and performance across Moment Energy's battery energy storage systems. - Derive mission profiles using available field data, operating conditions, environmental exposure, and system usage patterns. Develop simulation-based approaches when sufficient field data is unavailable. - Contribute to damage models based on mission profiles, expected failure mechanisms, component characteristics, and anticipated operating conditions to evaluate degradation and estimate useful life. - Translate real-world mission profiles into appropriate accelerated test conditions that expose potential failure mechanisms and predict degradation without introducing unrealistic failure modes through excessive stress. - Support Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) and other reliability assessments to identify risks, prioritize failure modes, and recommend design improvements throughout product development. - Help guide technical discussions and investigations into product and component failures, particularly when the root cause is not immediately apparent. Recommend systematic, non-destructive investigative methods before progressing to more intrusive testing or destructive analysis. - Analyze field performance, test results, and observed failure trends to help identify root causes, contributing factors, and opportunities to improve product reliability. - Prepare Customer Reliability Reports: Prepare technical documentation and reliability reports that communicate product performance, expected service life, testing results, assumptions, and supporting evidence to customers. - Work closely with electrical, mechanical, battery, systems, and test engineering teams to incorporate reliability considerations into design decisions, validation plans, and product improvements. - Help develop and improve reliability methods, analysis tools, documentation, and processes that can scale with Moment Energy's expanding product portfolio and manufacturing operations. - Use field feedback, test results, and failure investigations to recommend design changes and help prevent recurring issues across our products. **The Candidate** **We’re looking for individuals with the following traits, skills, and experiences:** - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline. Candidates with a Mechanical Engineering background may be considered if they have demonstrated strength in electrical reliability. - 3+ years of experience in reliability engineering, product reliability, design validation, or a closely related engineering field. - Experience developing mission profiles from field data, operating conditions, and/or simulation-based approaches. - Familiarity with reliability models, damage models, degradation assessments, or useful-life predictions for electrical or electromechanical products. - Understanding of electrical failure mechanisms, component degradation, and the relationship between operating conditions, environmental exposure, and product life. - Experience developing or supporting accelerated life and reliability testing approaches that reflect realistic operating conditions. - Familiarity with DFMEA, reliability risk assessments, or other structured engineering methodologies. - Ability to investigate failures systematically and identify appropriate non-destructive methods to help determine potential causes. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret engineering data and develop evidence-based conclusions. - Strong technical writing and communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear engineering reports. - A collaborative, self-directed approach and a willingness to learn, share knowledge, and work across multiple engineering disciplines. **Nice-to-Have Experience:** - Experience with lithium-ion batteries, battery management systems (BMS), battery packs, or battery energy storage systems. - Experience with products deployed in demanding environmental conditions or climates comparable to those expected for Moment Energy's systems. - Familiarity with thermal, electrical, mechanical, and environmental stressors affecting long-term battery system performance. - Experience with field reliability data, degradation trends, statistical reliability analysis, and predictive modeling. - Familiarity with reliability testing and safety standards relevant to batteries and energy storage systems, such as UL 1973 and UL 9540. - Experience working with industrial products throughout design, validation, certification, manufacturing, and field deployment. - Familiarity with failure analysis techniques such as electrical characterization, thermography, microscopy, or other non-destructive inspection methods. - Experience developing customer-facing technical documentation for industrial products. **Why join us?** - Today, we’re delivering 5x the energy density and have all the certifications needed to ship energy independence to the world. - Be part of a mission-driven company focused on creating sustainable energy solutions and making a positive impact on the world. - Collaborate closely with passionate co-founders and a team committed to innovation and excellence. - Contribute to building and scaling a company from the ground up, where your work will have a direct and meaningful impact. - Thrive in a workplace that values collaboration, wellness, and celebrating successes, with regular company socials, fitness sessions, and more. **We're a fast-paced and dynamic team.** Every day you'll be taking on a new challenge and learning something new. You'll take on a wide breadth of tasks and contribute to disrupting the battery industry. You'll be part of a tight-knit team that is working together to save the planet! Fun, health, and wellness are incorporated into our daily schedule and we encourage all our team members to bring innovative ideas to the table to create an interactive workplace. **Moment Energy Benefits Highlights** *(full time, permanent employees only)* **Financial Growth: Employee equity and a robust RRSP matching program.** **Comprehensive Health Coverage:** Extended health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents through Manulife. **Generous Time Off & Flexibility:** Paid time off plus a paid company closure between Christmas and New Year's, with a generous paid sick leave. **Vibrant Culture & Perks:**Open and collaborative office culture, frequent company socials and wellness programs (weekly yoga/fitness), and free EV charging on-site. **Company Dinner:**Weekly Tuesday dinner provided by Moment Energy. We also have a generous supply of coffee and snacks for the office! **Our Commitments** Moment Energy is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes, including our work environment. We especially welcome applications from Indigenous peoples, members of racialized communities, persons with disabilities, women, and persons who identify as 2SLGBTQ+. —--- **Our Values** Our values are key to how we show up every day at Moment Energy! We keep them in the forefront of what we do, and they’re used everywhere. We refer to them when we have tough decisions to make, we give shoutouts based on living out these values, and we include them as part of our performance reviews. We have 5 core values and 1 foundational pillar (Safety is our Foundation) which lays the groundwork for everything we do. **Safety is our Foundation** We prioritize the safety of our products, customers, employees, and the general public above all else. From the workshop to the field, we maintain the highest standards for our batteries in testing manufacturing and deployment, and daily operations. Safety is not only about procedures—it is about vigilance, responsibility, and speaking up when something does not feel right. Safety is everyone's responsibility. We follow safety protocols, use proper equipment, and continuously improve our systems to prevent risks before they occur. If something is unsafe, we stop work and address it. Safety also means protecting our colleagues, customers, and communities by designing reliable products, maintaining safe workspaces, and ensuring our work is done carefully and responsibly. **We’re Building a Greener Future Together:** We infuse passion for our cleantech mission into every aspect of our work and incorporate fun into the workplace. We motivate one another, celebrate our successes and embrace eco-friendly practices to reduce our carbon footprint. **We Prioritize our Customer’s Needs:** We place our customers at the core of everything we do, ensuring that every decision considers their needs and aims to provide increased value to them. We provide reliable support for our customers, every step of the way. **We’re Open, Honest and Accountable:** We prioritize open and honest communication to foster mutual understanding, strengthen knowledge sharing, and reduce miscommunication within the team. We admit when we’ve made a mistake, and remedy our actions. We transparently communicate outcomes whether good, bad, or unexpected. **We Think and Act like Owners:** We’re self-starters that proactively embrace new challenges along with personal and collective ownership of responsibilities in the organization. We focus on growth, not titles, and we do what needs to be done. **We Treat Everyone with Respect:** We actively listen, share openly, and work together towards common goals. We treat one another with mutual respect to cultivate an inclusive environment where everyone feels accepted, supported, and heard. We keep an open mind and are willing to learn.