Manager, Product Reliability Engineering

The posting, as Divergent wrote it

Divergent is building the new industrial age. Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies.

Join us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.

Purpose

The Manager, Product Reliability Engineering is responsible for driving build quality and mission success across Divergent’s products by leading a team of engineers focused on reliability, validation, and risk management. This role partners closely with cross-functional teams to ensure products meet performance, reliability, and program requirements. You will help translate customer needs into actionable quality and reliability plans, support program execution, and drive structured problem-solving for failures and system issues. As a people leader and technical contributor, you will reinforce a reliability-first mindset, ensure consistent execution of product quality processes, and support the scaling of reliable outcomes across Divergent’s technologies and operations.

The Role

Team Leadership & Execution

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of product reliability engineers, fostering strong technical execution and accountability
• Provide day-to-day guidance, prioritization, and performance management for the team
• Support hiring and onboarding engineers as the team scales
• Reinforce best practices in reliability engineering, risk management, and problem-solving

Program & Cross-Functional Partnership

• Act as the primary reliability partner to Program Management and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) at the program level
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure alignment between requirements, design intent, and production capability
• Support interpretation of customer and regulatory requirements and ensure they are translated into clear, verifiable product quality objectives
• Escalate risks, tradeoffs, and constraints to senior leadership as needed F-33

Product Quality & Reliability Execution

• Own execution of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) deliverables, including FMEA, control plans, and validation activities
• Ensure product and process risks are identified, documented, and actively managed within programs
• Support development and refinement of quality control plans and validation strategies
• Track and report on reliability metrics, risks, and readiness at the program level

Risk Management & Problem Resolution

• Lead structured root cause investigations and corrective action efforts for product and process failures
• Facilitate cross-functional issue resolution and nonconformance reviews
• Drive accountability fo

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Equal Employment Opportunity
Divergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.
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