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 for containment, corrective actions, and verification of effectiveness
Promote the use of structured problem-solving methodologies (e.g., 8D, 5 Whys, FMEA) Process Improvement & Scaling
Contribute to the development and improvement of reliability, risk, and quality processes Help standardize tools, templates, and best practices across programs
Support implementation of scalable systems to manage increasing product complexity and production volume

Basic Qualifications

Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls
Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline
5+ years of experience in product reliability, quality, manufacturing, design, systems, or test/validation engineering
1+ years of experience leading projects, initiatives, or direct management of engineers
Experience solving complex, cross-functional engineering problems using structured methodologies
Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience directly managing engineers in a production or product development environment