Hardware Reliability Engineer - Wearables
Apple Inc., CT, United States
Hardware Reliability Engineer - Wearables
Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their best work. Just be ready to dream big. The people here at Apple don’t just build products — they build the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that encourages the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it. Apple’s Hardware Reliability Engineering team is looking for you to work with our diverse hardware engineering teams. As the Reliability team, we are responsible for ensuring and improving the durability and reliability of Apple's products. To achieve that, we partner with multiple engineering teams from the beginning (concept) to 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.
Description
You will help 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. Your responsibilities will include:
- Bringing up and monitoring the Reliability Labs at our contract manufacturers.
- Interfacing with cross-functional partners to ensure a seamless test and failure analysis process.
- Preparing concise and detailed test plans and analyzing test reports.
- Statistically analyzing data to provide design risk assessments.
- Researching new technologies to understand unique failure mechanisms.
- Guiding design and interacting with diverse groups to improve product reliability.
Minimum Qualifications
- Engineering degree and/or 3+ years of experience in a related field or industry.
- Strong data interpretation and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal English and Chinese communication skills.
- Education: Bachelor or above.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience performing reliability testing including Mechanical Stress Tests, Shock/Drop/Vibration Testing, Environmental Testing.
- Statistical experience such as Weibull, JMP, or familiarity with accelerated test models. Understanding of Design of Experiments.
- 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. Imaginative approach to Failure Modes and Effects Analysis.
- Strong attention to detail and curiosity of how technologies work. Capable of handling multiple projects at once.
- Dynamic engineer with a “can do” attitude with the aim to work in a top-notch team and product.
- Confident with navigating ambiguity and creating new ways of doing things.
- Strong capability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Consumer electronics experience is preferred.