Materials Reliability Engineer: Failure Analysis & Testing

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, is seeking a Hardware Reliability Engineer - Materials to join the Materials Reliability Group.

You will assess material-level reliability risks for new designs, perform failure analysis, and push for design and process mitigations to improve product reliability. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years in materials-related fields; familiarity with failure analysis methods (FMEA, Weibull) and cross-functional collaboration is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field with 6+ years of industry experience.
• Experience in material failure analysis and reliability.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 10% of the year.
• Strong data analysis and communication of results.

Responsibilities

• Identify high risk material failure modes early in the design cycle using FMEA.
• Develop new test stress conditions based on materials physics of failures.
• Assess product reliability through stress data and material understanding.
• Support failure analysis and provide design direction from test data.
• Collaborate with design and process teams to improve material reliability.
• Identify equipment and specs critical to validating material performance.
• Support vendor testing with global collaboration and travel.
• Manage multiple projects with high reliability standards.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Statistical data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel readiness

Communication of results

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Physics/Materials Science

MS or PhD in Materials Science/Engineering

Tools

FMEA

Weibull analysis

JMP

X-ray/CT

SEM/EDS

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, is seeking a Hardware Reliability Engineer - Materials to join the Materials Reliability Group.

You will assess material-level reliability risks for new designs, perform failure analysis, and push for design and process mitigations to improve product reliability. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years in materials-related fields; familiarity with failure analysis methods (FMEA, Weibull) and cross-functional collaboration is essential.