Reliability Engineer – Home

Summary

Posted: Mar 10, 2025

Weekly Hours: 5

Role Number:200590159

The Apple/Home Hardware Reliability Engineering team is looking for you to work with our diverse Home engineering teams. As the Reliability team, we are responsible for ensuring and improving the durability and reliability of product. To achieve that, we partner with multiple engineering teams from the beginning (concept) through the end (field returns) of a product lifecycle, while exploring new technologies and understanding how customers will use our products. If you have a passion for constant learning and innovative engineering products you will fit right in. You will develop and implement creative reliability tests on new hardware programs, quantify reliability risk, support failure analysis resulting from these tests, and advise the executive team on the best path forward. Come join our team!

Description

As a System Reliability Engineer, you’ll be responsible for identifying high-risk failure modes early in the design process and working closely with design engineering teams to reduce those risks. You’ll create new reliability tests based on the physics of failure and anticipated user behavior, ensuring our systems meet the highest standards. You’ll also develop and deliver critical test equipment and specifications, and collaborate with vendors to meet testing deadlines. Additionally, you’ll support failure analysis efforts, offering design recommendations based on your evaluation of test data to drive continuous product improvements. Responsibilities: – Developing new reliability tests procedures and specifications – Preparing concise and detailed test plans and analyzing test reports – Statistically analyzing data to provide design risk assessments – Presenting tests, results, and risk assessments in a confident and positive manner to management and executive teams – Researching new technologies to understand unique failure mechanisms – Guiding design and interacting with diverse groups to improve product reliability

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Material Science Engineering and 3+ years of experience in a related field or industry
• Experience performing reliability testing including mechanical stress tests, shock/drop/vibration testing, environmental testing
• Ability and willingness to travel internationally, as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Statistical experience such as Weibull, JMP, and/or familiarity with accelerated test models that feed into test justifications
• Experience with Design of Experiments, FEA simulations, and RDT modeling
• Ability to develop test justifications by leveraging user studies and the “voice of the customer” feedback loop
• Familiar with Failure Analysis techniques (Optical Microscopy, X-ray/CT, Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, etc.), and the ability to use failure analysis methodology to derive a root cause of failure
• Prior consumer electronics experience

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $135,400 and $250,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  
  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
  
  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.