Home Reliability Engineer

Apple • Los Angeles, CA

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About The Position

The Apple Home Hardware Reliability Engineering team is looking for a Home Reliability Engineer to work with diverse home hardware engineering teams. The Reliability team is responsible for ensuring and improving the durability and reliability of products. To achieve this, they 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 the products. This role is for someone with a passion for constant learning and innovative engineering products. The engineer 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.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering is required
• 3+ year experience performing product characterization including mechanical stress test, shock/drop/vibration testing, environmental testing

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of experience in Systems Reliability
• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and curiosity of how technologies work
• Capable of handling multiple projects at once
• Dynamic engineer with a proactive attitude and desire to work closely with domestic and international cross-functional teams
• Statistical experience such as Weibull, JMP, or familiarity with accelerated test models
• Familiar with Failure Analysis techniques (Optical Microscopy, X-ray/CT, Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, etc.)
• Ability to use failure analysis methodology to derive a root cause of failure
• Consumer electronics experience is preferred, but not necessary
• Ability to travel internationally (up to 10%)

Responsibilities

• Developing new reliability test procedures and specifications
• Preparing concise and detailed test plans
• Analyzing test reports
• Leveraging statistical analysis to provide comprehensive design risk assessments
• Presenting tests, results, and findings in a confident and positive manner to management and executive teams
• Continuously researching new technologies to understand unique failure mechanisms
• Guiding design decisions
• Collaborating with diverse cross-functional groups to improve overall product reliability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level