Senior Reliability Engineer – Silicon SoC Leader

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Discounted products and services

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA, seeks a Reliability Engineer Lead to drive qualification of next-generation silicon, leading product, process and package reliability tests from design to qualification.

You will lead Design for Reliability and Design for Test, coordinate stress tests, manage supplier audits, and guide silicon fab, packaging and test partners to ensure product reliability. Strong JEDEC expertise and 10+ years in semiconductor reliability are required.

Qualifications

• Experience with JEDEC reliability and quality related standards.
• 10+ years of semiconductor engineering in Reliability/Quality/Product Engineering.
• Experience with silicon product level reliability qualification and lifetime behavior model.
• Prior experience defining hardware setups and equipment for life, environmental, ESD, Latch-Up and other tests.
• Validated auditing of supplier sites, materials and processes.
• Experience driving suppliers in silicon Fab process / packaging / assembly, test, ongoing reliability monitoring, post-production qualification.
• Familiar with process flows, specifications, and supervising supplier performance (process Cpk, yield, qualification report, etc.)
• Possess knowledge on practice of FAI to validate the work suppliers are doing prior to production stage.

Responsibilities

• Drive requirements and execution of product, process and package qualification and reliability stress tests from design to qualification completion.
• Drive and review Design for Reliability and Design for Test to ensure stress-ability and testability.
• Lead preparation for qualification including corner skew material, BIB/Socket, waveform, electrical bias, thermal effects, lifetime estimation.
• Implement POR of process flows, workmanship standards and supervise product performance.
• Perform FAI to ensure critical goals are reviewed before engineering, pre-production and production release for Product manufacturing.
• Drive investigation and resolution on qualification fallouts and product/process nonconformance through FA, CAR, 8D, and reporting.
• Support PCN or ECN activities.
• Conduct supplier audits when needed.
• Assess/perform yield analysis and correlation analysis for all test levels including Pareto, statistics.
• Drive/guide suppliers for improvement as needed.

Skills

JEDEC standards

Senior reliability engineering

Supplier management

Test equipment setup

Reliability qualification

Data analysis

FAI awareness

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, CA, seeks a Reliability Engineer Lead to drive qualification of next-generation silicon, leading product, process and package reliability tests from design to qualification.

You will lead Design for Reliability and Design for Test, coordinate stress tests, manage supplier audits, and guide silicon fab, packaging and test partners to ensure product reliability. Strong JEDEC expertise and 10+ years in semiconductor reliability are required.