$90,100 - $135,100 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Evaluates the materials, properties, and techniques used in production from a reliability standpoint across automotive devices, packages, components, and systems.
What you'll do
- Support automotive reliability activities, testing, analysis, and execution across devices, packages, components, and systems.
- Support automotive reliability requirements, AEC-aligned qualification methodologies, and validation activities for new designs and technologies.
- Support automotive burn-in and production screening activities to achieve reliability, quality, and DPPM objectives.
- Evaluate reliability data and provide technical input on tradeoffs involving performance, power, quality, schedule, and product requirements.
- Collaborate with design, process, test, product, quality, and customer-facing teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Support customer-facing technical activities, including qualification reviews, reliability assessments, audit preparation, and investigation of customer reliability concerns.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related field.
- Experience with reliability testing, data analysis, qualification, or validation through academic, internship, or industry experience.
- Understanding of semiconductor reliability, physics-of-failure, or failure mechanisms.
- Familiarity with automotive reliability qualification concepts and production screening strategies.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related field.
- 0-4 years of experience in semiconductor and/or component reliability, physics-of-failure, failure mechanisms, or qualification methodologies.
- Familiarity with applicable AEC standards and specifications for automotive semiconductor products and components.
- Familiarity with Automotive Change Management and Product Change Notifications (PCNs), including reliability impact assessments.
- Familiarity with mission-profile-based automotive reliability qualification concepts and lifetime modeling.
- Knowledge of automotive burn-in methodologies and DPPM improvement initiatives across silicon, package, and system-level qualification programs.
- Familiarity with Statements of Work (SOWs), external qualification laboratories, and suppliers.
Skills: AEC-Q100, burn-in, DPPM, qualification, physics-of-failure
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 43-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
532
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Median days since first seen
43 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$151k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (532 roles · 78 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 532 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 45 | 10219 · 116 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 54 d | 43 d (−11 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $151k |
Skills observed across this category: AEC-Q100, burn-in, DPPM, qualification, physics-of-failure
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 75 open roles · median 76 d
- Infineon Technologies · 42 open roles · median 28 d
- Renesas Electronics · 29 open roles · median 28 d
- onsemi · 22 open roles · median 68 d
- STMicroelectronics · 21 open roles · median 32 d
- SanDisk · 17 open roles · median 12 d
How we counted: 532 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 78 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.