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Reliability Engineer (Mac SoC Package Integration)

Austin,Texas,United States

Hardware

Do you ever wonder what goes into making Apple products an amazing user experience? Apple’s innovative reliability team is responsible for insuring that our products exceed our customer’s expectations for robustness, durability, and reliability. We are looking for motivated contributors who enjoy working on revolutionary products and aspiring to make them better through creation and execution of comprehensive test suites, identification of potential failure modes, and collaboration with design teams to drive product improvements. The position is on Apple’s innovative Mac Reliability Engineering team, where we collaborate with hardware development and Silicon packaging team. You will be leading the board level package integration reliability on new Mac Apple SoC package and similar technologies, development of new test procedures to quantify the reliability of a design, and failure analysis resulting from these tests. Come join our team!

Key Qualifications

• Knowledge of Semiconductor package integration, SLI (Second level Interconnect) reliability, Bonding materials, Warpage control.

• Experience performing board level reliability testing including Mechanical Stress Tests, Shock/Drop/Vibration Testing, Environmental Testing

• Failure Analysis analytical techniques (Optical Microscopy, X-Ray, CSAM, SEM/EDS, FTIR, XPS etc)

• Ability to use fundamental failure analysis methodology to derive a root cause of failure

• Knowledge of failure modes and statistical life data analysis using curve fitting and distributions models.

• Knowledge of industry test Standards (JEDEC, ASTM, IEEE)

• Application of DOE (design of Experiments)

• Application of FMEA (Failure Modes an Effects Analysis)

• Exceptional problem solving abilities

• Strong attention to detail

• Ability to manage numerous projects at the same time

Description

Preparing concise and detailed test plans and test reports Development of new reliability tests procedures and specifications Statistical data analysis to provide risk assessments of a design Researching a technology to determine possible failure modes Providing design recommendations to improve product reliability when necessary Interacting with a wide variety of individuals and teams to communicate results

Education & Experience

MS or PhD in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering or an equivalent field desired

Additional Requirements

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