Reliability Engineer Lead, Custom Silicon Management

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Cupertino, CA
Salary
$184,700–$324,800 / yr
Posted
21 days ago
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TL;DR · Reliability Engineer Lead, Custom Silicon Management

As a Reliability Engineer Lead – Custom Silicon Management within the Silicon Technologies group, you will lead the introduction and qualification of new products while ensuring high quality standards. You will drive requirements for product, process, and package qualification, managing stress test conditions from the design stage through completion. Your daily responsibilities include reviewing Design for Reliability and Design for Test, performing First Article Inspections, conducting yield and correlation analyses, and investigating nonconformance events through FA, CAR, and 8D reporting. You will also manage supplier audits and oversee workmanship standards. The role requires expertise in JEDEC reliability and quality standards, semiconductor engineering, and lifetime behavior modeling. This position focuses on the technical challenges of manufacturing high-performance, power-efficient system-on-chip processors to ensure seamless performance across a diverse range of hardware devices.

What you'll do

  • Drive the execution of product, process, and package qualification from design through completion.
  • Review Design for Reliability and Design for Test to ensure stress-ability and testability.
  • Manage all aspects of qualification including material skew, electrical bias, thermal effects, and lifetime estimation.
  • Perform First Article Inspections (FAI) to validate manufacturing goals before production release.
  • Resolve qualification fallouts and nonconformance events through failure analysis and 8D reporting.
  • Conduct yield and correlation analyses for all test levels using Pareto building and statistics.
  • Audit supplier sites and drive suppliers to improve silicon fabrication, packaging, and assembly processes.

What we're looking for

  • Experience with JEDEC reliability and quality related standards.
  • 10+ years of semiconductor engineering in a Reliability and/or Quality/Product Engineering (preferred).
  • Experience with silicon product level reliability qualification and lifetime behavior model (preferred).
  • Prior experience defining hardware setups and equipment for life, environmental, ESD, Latch-Up and other tests (preferred).
  • Validated auditing of supplier sites, materials, and processes (preferred).
  • Experience driving suppliers in areas of silicon Fab process, packaging, assembly, test, and reliability monitoring (preferred).
  • Familiarity with process flows, specifications, and supervising supplier performance (preferred).

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