Hardware Reliability Engineer - Materials

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Hardware Reliability Engineer - Materials Cupertino, United States of America Are you passionate about the development, characterization, and failure analysis of innovative materials? Do you ever wonder what goes into creating amazing Apple product user experiences? The engineers in Apple's Materials Reliability Group assess material-level reliability risks and have an influential role in guiding materials and finishes toward reliable designs for new product development. Through deep investigation and collaboration, we strive to create a customer experience of enduring product quality. We are looking for an experienced individual who is passionate about: understanding how materials fail, driving test development to characterize failure risk, diving into failure root cause analysis, and advocating for material reliability improvements. Come join our team! As a Materials Reliability Engineer, you will assess material-level reliability risks of new product designs; and work with materials engineering and process teams to perform failure analysis, and to push for design and process mitigations and controls. Identify high risk material failure modes early in the design cycle, utilizing tools like Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) Develop new test stress conditions based on material Physics of Failures, expected user behaviors, expected field stresses Assess product-facing reliability through stress test data and material understanding Support failure analysis and provide design direction based on evaluation of test data and failure root cause understanding Collaborate with design and process engineering teams to improve material reliability performance Identify and implement necessary equipment and specifications that are critical to validating material performance and product reliability Support vendor

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