Reliability Engineer
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Job overview
Apple’s Reliability Engineer in Austin identifies high-risk failure modes early in product design and works with design engineering teams to reduce risk. The role develops reliability tests, equipment, specifications, procedures, and test plans; collaborates with vendors; and supports failure analysis. It also analyzes test data and reports design risks to guide product improvements.
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Full job description
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number: 200691629-0157
Summary
Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do.
Description
APPLE INC has the following available in Austin, Texas. Identify high-risk failure modes early in the design process and work closely with design engineering teams to reduce those risks. Create new reliability tests based on the physics of failure and anticipated user behavior, ensuring systems meet the highest standards. Develop and deliver critical test equipment and specifications, and collaborate with vendors to meet testing deadlines. Support failure analysis efforts, offering design recommendations based on evaluation of test data to drive continuous product improvements. Work on statistical data analysis and clear reporting, providing risk design assessments and guiding product improvements. Develop new reliability test procedures, create detailed test plans, and analyze results to assess design risks. 40 hours/week.
Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Mechanical Engineering or related field and 4 years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
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Experience and/or education must include:
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Utilizing CAD to review product design.
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Utilizing DFMEA to assess product design risks.
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Leveraging statistical tools, including JMP, to analyze reliability test failures.
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Leveraging analytical tools, including MATLAB, to analyze dynamic characterization.
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Using data visualization tools, including Tableau, to visualize parametric test data.
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Using PFMEA to assess and analyze product manufacturing process.
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Using RCA (root cause analysis) to analyze reliability test failures and provide solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
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Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,104 open Reliability Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$120–173K/yr46 salary ranges
- US median$33–42/hr73 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 135 open Reliability Engineer jobs in Texas and 1,104 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Reliability Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (850 postings).
- Education
- 590 of the 1,104 open Reliability Engineer jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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