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Reliability Engineer Lead – Custom Silicon Management

San Diego, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2025-11-04 → 2026-09-28

Core

Lead the introduction and qualification of new high-performance, power-efficient processor and system-on-chip (SoC) products, ensuring reliability from design through production.

Role type

Senior IC Reliability Engineer Lead (Silicon)

Builds

Next-generation Apple processors and SoCs

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing and silicon reliability

Required skills

semiconductor reliability engineering, JEDEC standards, product qualification, design for reliability, design for test, failure analysis, yield analysis, supplier auditing, process improvement, statistical analysis

Preferred skills

silicon product level reliability qualification, lifetime behavior modeling, hardware test setup definition, supplier site validation, fab process/packaging/assembly oversight, FAI validation

Technologies

JEDEC standards, FAI, 8D, CAR, MRB, RMA, Cpk

Responsibilities

Drive requirements and execution of product, process, and package qualification and reliability stress tests; Lead Design for Reliability and Design for Test implementation; Perform First Article Inspection (FAI) and yield/correlation analysis; Investigate and resolve qualification fallouts and nonconformance events; Conduct supplier audits and drive supplier improvements.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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