Systems Reliability Engineer

Upwing Energy is developing and commercializing first-of-their-kind Subsurface Compressor Systems (SCS) for natural gas extraction.

Our development efforts combine exciting engineering challenges in turbomachinery; rotordynamics; high-speed and high-power electric motors; power electronics; industrial automation; aerodynamics; structural, thermal and fluid flow simulations; mechanical design and design-for-manufacturability.

The ideal System Reliability Engineer will have a strong and varied technical background; they must have the desire and capability to drive the development of the company’s Subsurface Compressor Systems (SCS).

This position will be responsible for ensuring the SCS, Surface Control Center (SCC), and Hydraulic Control Center (HCC) are deployment ready prior to shipping out of the Cerritos facility.

The System Reliability Engineer will be responsible for leading Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) on deployed units and driving product improvements as a result of the investigation findings.

This position will also provide remote and onsite technical support to the field team during deployment, commissioning, and standard operations in a customer well.

• Fundamentally understands full system operating principles, risks, and benefits
• Interfaces with engineering, operations, test and field deployment personnel to build, test, deploy and recover tools in an effort to understand what improvements need to be made to extend operating life and enhance performance
• Provides technical support to the Manufacturing team and evaluates impact of deviations to overall system function and reliability
• Ensures SCS, SCC, and HCC are deployment ready prior to shipping units from Cerritos
• Compiles deployment packages for the field team and clearly communicates any special deployment and/or operational considerations that need to be accounted for before shipping the SCS, SCC, and HCC from Cerritos
• Provides remote & onsite support to the field team during commissioning, normal operation, and decommissioning activities