SoC Silicon Reliability Engineer

Cupertino Until 9/22/2026 10+ years exp First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you intrinsically see the importance in every detail? As part of our Silicon Technologies group, you’ll help design and manufacture our next-generation, high-performance, power-efficient processor, system-on-chip (SoC). You’ll ensure Apple products and services can seamlessly and efficiently handle the tasks that make them beloved by millions. Joining this group means you’ll be responsible for crafting and building the technology that fuels Apple’s devices. Together, you and your team will enable our customers to do all the things they love with their devices. We promote innovation and new technology. The people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod and a multitude of groundbreaking Accessories. The same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our dedication to leave the world better than we found it. You should join us to help deliver the next amazing Apple product!

Description

This candidate will be responsible for Apple SoC/Application Processor Product and Package Reliability. Candidate will work closely with cross functional teams and subcontractors to coordinate the introduction of new AP products and ensure product manufacturability.

- Drive SoC/AP product, process and package qualification and reliability tests.
- Drive Failure analysis during product or package qualification.
- Experience applying JEDEC quality related standards, ISO and the science behind them.
- Must know reliability fail modes of silicon / packaging technologies and fail mechanisms with respect to reliability.
- Experience with reliability HW and Stress Pattern setups and equipment for life, environmental, ESD, Latch-Up testing.
- Implement ongoing quality improvement processes working with the suppliers.

Minimum Qualifications

BS with 10+ years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications

Ideal candidate will have relevant experience with SoC Reliability engineering
Hands on SoC product and package reliability testing
Familiar with preparation for Qualification including BIB/Socket, waveform, electrical bias, thermal effect, lifetime estimation.
Set-up HTOL testing
Set-up ESD and Latch Up test
Device Reliability FA experience
Driving foundries for product reliability issue

About this role

Summary

Ensure SoC reliability, perform testing, failure analysis, and coordinate with teams.

Job title

SoC Silicon Reliability Engineer

Experience level

10+ years

Minimum experience

10+ years exp

Industry

technology

Location requirements

On-site in Cupertino, no remote work mentioned.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

JEDEC standardsreliability testsfailure modeshardware stress testingenvironmental testing

Preferred skills

SoC reliability experiencereliability testing hands-onqualification preparationHTOL testingdevice FAfoundry coordination

Specializations

reliability engineeringSoCpackage reliabilityfailure analysistesting
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cupertino, CA, USA

On-site City