Apple
Hardware Reliability Engineer - Materials
$150K–$278K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of industry experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in technical field (Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, etc).
About the job
Assesses material-level reliability risks in new product designs and develops testing and mitigations to improve material performance and product quality.
What you'll do
- Identify material failure risks and develop stress tests based on failure physics and expected use and field conditions.
- Analyze test data and failure root causes, then guide design and process mitigations.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and vendors to implement reliability testing and improve material performance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field (Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, etc.).
- Understanding of how material properties, processing, and structure affect product performance.
- Experience in or collaboration with a lab environment focused on material failure root cause.
- Experience with statistical data analysis and communicating results; able to identify failure root causes and corrective actions from multiple data sources.
Nice to have
- M.S. or PhD in a listed engineering or materials discipline.
- Familiarity with failure characterization methods, FMEA, reliability modeling, statistical tools such as Weibull or JMP, or accelerated test models.
Pay
USD $150,400 to $277,600 base salary
Tools
Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA), Optical Microscopy, X-ray/CT, Scanning Electron Microscopy/Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy, Weibull, JMP
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