Reliability Engineer II
BAE Systems · Nashua, NH
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Reliability
- Base pay
- $79k–$135k
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- Today
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level reliability role at BAE Systems (aerospace & defense) in Nashua, NH. Present R&M design and analysis against customer requirements at internal and customer design milestone reviews.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Root cause
- Base pay
- $79k–$135k
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Reliability Engineer roles in New Hampshire: typical posted base $106k–$135k. This one lists $79k–$135k.
Median of the low and high ends of 4 live postings that list pay, out of 7 reliability engineer openings in New Hampshire, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 503 other live reliability postings in the US.
- Base pay
- About 13% below similar roles
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $105k–$141k, from 176 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 54%
- Team leadership 28%
- FMEA 25%
- Automation 24%
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Full description from BAE SystemsAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
are achieved. Your self-starting enthusiasm for technology, and ability to investigate and solve problems, will propel you to become an integral part of our innovative teams and influence product development.
In this Reliability Engineer position you will make impacts in the following ways;
- ✓Work with a cross-functional team to ensure Reliability and Maintainability
requirements
are achieved.
- ✓Perform failure trend analysis, failure investigation and root cause analysis.
- ✓Coordinate failure analysis with vendors or failure analysis labs.
- ✓Prepare and review failure reports and FRACAS metrics for publication.
- ✓Present findings and conclusions with recommended corrective actions to both internal management as well as our customers.
- ✓Perform internal and external supplier interface to resolve reliability issues.
- ✓Perform Design-for Reliability and Maintainability including reliability and maintainability modeling and analysis and assessments requiring the full use and wide application of engineering theories, concepts and precedents. Conduct research to provide solutions to a wide range of technical problems and proposals.
- ✓Make technical choices to improve the reliability & maintainability attributes of the equipment.
- ✓Plan and conduct a variety of reliability and maintainability tasks to meet reliability and maintainability goals.
- ✓Present findings and conclusions with recommended corrective actions to both internal management as well as our customers.
- ✓Represent the Company at customer meetings as applicable.
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering/technical/scientific field and 2 or more years of relevant engineering experience within the Reliability Sciences disciplines
Experience with a few or several of the following
- ✓Perform Reliability, Availability & Maintainability (RAM) trade studies for the system design process
- ✓Experience using Reliability and Maintainability analysis and reliability growth software tools experience / awareness using ReliaSoft, Relyence and/or PTC Windchill RR software tool
- ✓Define/allocate RAM
requirements
and assess RAM performance (MTBF, MTBCF, Ao)
- ✓Perform Reliability Predictions and MTBF Modeling
- ✓Perform Failure Modes Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
- ✓Perform Testability Analysis
- ✓Perform Maintainability Analysis.
- ✓Drive the Failure reporting, Analysis & Corrective Action System (FRACAS) process
- ✓Perform failure trend analysis, failure investigation and root cause analysis.
- ✓Chair/Track the Failure Review Board activities.
- ✓Present R&M design and analysis against customer
requirements
at internal and customer design milestone reviews.
Responsibilities
may involve supporting the design team to establish BIT functions, test interface
requirements
and diagnostic features.
- ✓Drive the Failure reporting, Analysis & FRACAS process
- ✓Perform failure trend analysis, failure investigation and root cause analysis.
- ✓Chair/Track the Failure Review Board activities.
- ✓Present R&M design and analysis against customer
requirements
at internal and customer design milestone reviews.
Responsibilities
may involve supporting the design team to establish BIT functions, test interface
requirements
and diagnostic features.
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
- ✓Knowledge and/or experience with the principles of electrical and/or mechanical design
- ✓Internship, Co-op or Research experience, preferably in a reliability engineering role
- ✓Demonstrate time and task management with great organizational skills
- ✓Awareness of MBSE (Magic Draw, SysML)
- ✓Familiarity with industry standard practices such as Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, etc.
- ✓Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment
- ✓Collaboration: You love working with a team and receiving input from others
- ✓Creativity: You love finding new and creative ways to solve problems
Highly Desirable (these skills/experiences are not required but will set a candidate apart from the rest):
- ✓Production, test and field
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