About the Opportunity Location: Hybrid: Oakville, Canada

At Natus Medical, product reliability is essential to delivering medical technology that healthcare professionals can depend on.

We are seeking an experienced

Reliability Engineer

to lead product reliability activities and help ensure our neurology medical devices and applications consistently deliver their intended performance throughout their expected service life.

This is a highly collaborative, technically influential role spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, software, and integrated systems. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Verification Test, Quality, Service, and Manufacturing teams to transform product requirements, potential failure modes, and real-world field feedback into measurable reliability objectives, effective testing strategies, and long-term product service-life strategies.

From early prototype development through formal Reliability Verification, Design Transfer, and commercialization, you'll take ownership of the methodologies, planning, analysis, and technical evidence that support product reliability.

If you're passionate about solving complex engineering challenges, improving product performance, and building reliability into every stage of product development, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

What You'll Do Lead Reliability Strategy & Cross-Functional Collaboration

Lead cross-functional product reliability planning across Hardware, Firmware, Software, Systems Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Service teams.

Translate expected use cases and corner cases, product requirements, Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (dFMEA), expected product service life, and historical data (lessons learned, manufacturing,



service, and field complaints) into measurable reliability objectives for Recent Product Introductions (NPI).

Develop and maintain product reliability test strategies, equipment requirements, acceptance criteria, and sample sizes aligned with prototype build plans, supported by corresponding statistical confidence and reliability targets.

Develop Advanced Reliability Testing & Validation Methods

Lead the development of standardized and automated reliability test methods and systems to evaluate hardware durability (environmental, mechanical, and electrical stresses), signal quality and data integrity, interface reliability, long-duration and endurance performance, fault injection and recovery, and system-level robustness across hardware, firmware, software applications, and cloud infrastructure.

Develop and apply appropriate accelerated testing models for electro-mechanical systems and strategies to demonstrate expected product service life.

Turn Reliability Insights Into Product Improvements

Support failure analysis and root-cause investigations, ensuring findings are translated into DfX process improvements across requirements, procurement, design, testing, or manufacturing.

Partner with Service teams to develop and maintain product Service Plans based on reliability outcomes, including expected failure modes,



maintenance and inspection requirements, service intervals, repair/replacement strategies, and service-life considerations.

Lead formal, program-level Reliability and Service Technical Reviews.

Shape Reliability Excellence Across the Organization

Provide technical leadership in developing and advancing organization-wide reliability programs, establishing standardized methodologies, processes, and best practices while driving cross-functional adoption throughout the product lifecycle.

What You'll Bring Required Qualifications Education & Professional Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.

7+ years of experience in product reliability engineering

for complex, multidisciplinary products incorporating hardware, firmware, software, and system-level interfaces in industries such as medical devices, automotive, aerospace, or consumer electronics.

Reliability Engineering Expertise

Strong knowledge and practical application of reliability standards , including IEC 62308 and IEC 61078, and reliability engineering principles and methodologies, including:

Bathtub curve, failure-rate characteristics and metrics (FIT, operating hours, MTTF, and MTBF).

Probability distributions and reliability functions.

Weibull analysis and life-data analysis.

Reliability block diagrams and reliability allocation.

Reliability prediction and expected service-life estimation.

Confidence and reliability (C/R) intervals determination.

Experience selecting and applying accelerated testi

📌 Reliability Engineering (Winnipeg)
🏢 Natus Sensory
📍 Winnipeg