Hardware Reliability Engineer – Ecosystem **Los Angeles, California, United States** **Hardware** **Summary** Posted: **Jul 28, 2025** Weekly Hours: **40** Role Number: **200613929** At Apple, we strive to provide the best possible customer experience with our products. We are looking for a strong candidate to join our Ecosystem Reliability Engineering team to make this happen for our next generations of products. In this role, you’ll collaborate with the diverse hardware engineering and operation teams to ensure our products are not only durable and reliable, but also built to exceed expectations. From early concepts to mass production, you will drive studies to understand customer behaviors and perceptions, define the reliability requirements, design innovative reliability tests and characterization techniques, influence critical design decisions, and drive continuous product improvements. **Description** - Developing new reliability tests procedures and specifications - Preparing concise and detailed test plans and analyzing test reports - Statistically analyzing data to provide design risk assessments - Presenting test setups, test results, and risk assessments in a confident and positive manner to the cross-functional and leadership teams - Researching new technologies to understand unique failure mechanisms - Guiding design and interacting with diverse groups to improve product reliability - Investigating failures during reliability testing to determine root cause and drive mitigations **Minimum Qualifications** + Bachelor’s Degree in a hardware-focused field (Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related fields). + Experience in defining hardware reliability spec and procedures, familiar with mechanical stress tests, drop/vibration/abrasion testing, environmental testing, etc.. + Collaborative attitude and ability to communicate and work with cross-functionally teams effectively, in person and remotely. + Ability to make clear and concise presentations and deliver the messages confidently in front of cross-functional and leadership teams. + Proactive and strong attention to detail, curiosity about how technologies work. + Ability to travel domestically. **Preferred Qualifications** + 3+ years of experience in a reliability engineering role. + M.S. or PhD in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related fields. + Strong statistical experience such as Weibull, JMP, and familiarity with accelerated test models. + Strong understanding of the physics behind material properties (mechanical, electrical, etc.) and ability to use failure analysis methodology to derive a root cause of failure. + Ability to travel internationally without restriction. **Pay & Benefits** At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. 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