Component Quality Engineer

Apple Apple · Big Tech · Cupertino, CA +1 · Operations and Supply Chain

This role focuses on the quality of semiconductor components and logic boards within Apple's consumer electronics. It involves auditing vendors, driving issue resolution, performing failure analysis, and ensuring manufacturing quality. While the description mentions 'data analytics machine learning' in the context of managing suppliers, the core responsibilities are in traditional hardware quality engineering, not AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Vendor (Fab process, Wafer level test, Final test, and Packaging) facility auditing. Full audit reporting, communication with Suppliers and Apple management and follow up to close all issues
  2. Drive and track closure on any component or module issues that impact overall product readiness or DPPM fluctuations
  3. Feedback ‘real time’ learning from any sustaining issues
  4. Provide quality team approval risk and MP releases and ensure team drives quality requirements for any post-ramp qualification
  5. Manage all program-related communication to executive management including: Highlight key program risk to management and clearly explain path to resolution

Skills

Required

  • Experience in one or more of the following disciplines: Fab Process Operations, Test, Design or Product Engineering, Reliability and/or Qualification
  • Experience in design & manufacturing of systems, PCBAs, assembly, and test
  • Broad IC packaging experience i.e. WLCSP, SOC, QFN, etc.
  • Solid knowledge and experience in Fab process and Package assembly.
  • Strong product reliability knowledge and fundamentals of relevance
  • Excellent skills in failure analysis of systems, circuits, and their components including cross-sectional analysis, Optical Microscopy, X-Ray, SEM/EDS, FTIR, XPS, etc.

Nice to have

  • Familiar with test strategies: In-Circuit Testing, board functional tests, and industry standard test methodologies such as JTAG.
  • Drive technical root cause analysis and corrective actions to improve system quality.
  • Adapt at identifying risk and develop solid plans to mitigate
  • Electrical Engineering skills including familiarity with circuit and system design, and manufacturing processes and test.
  • Precise technical communication including deep level of engineering analysis and details.
  • Demonstrated initiative with a high level of energy, and methodical & efficient problem solving skills including engineering DOEs.
  • Experience in system manufacturing, SMT, and transitioning new products into manufacturing.
  • Proven 8D and RCCA based problem solving and transformation. A high level of experience with quality metrics and SPC.
  • Industry leadership (such as ASQ) and consumer electronics experience is preferred
  • Experience working with off-shore manufacturers and traveling to manufacturing sites to perform root cause findings and problem solving

What the JD emphasized

  • strong background in electrical design, component quality and failure analysis
  • broad experience across consumer circuit design with a focus on manufacturing quality
  • outstanding program management skill is highly desired
  • Commit to work under high time/deliverable pressure with solid results