Senior Reliability Engineer
$168,000 - $264,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 22 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Reliability Engineer, you will serve as an individual contributor working with cross-functional teams to develop and execute product-level reliability qualifications for new IC chips across AI, Data Center, Mobile, and Automotive sectors. These products use Fin-FET technologies on advanced process nodes packaged in FCBGA, CoWoS, or Multi-Chip Modules.
What you'll do
- Develop product-level reliability qualification plans and implement qualifications for new IC chips across AI, Data Center, Mobile, Automotive, Deep Learning, Graphic Processor, and System on Chip sectors.
- Collaborate with design, customer engineering, packaging engineering, and product/test engineering teams to define qualification plans and margin studies on critical parameters.
- Partner with DFT and product engineering teams on qualification test programs, validation, and pre/post reliability stress test data analysis.
- Investigate and analyze test data, failures, and failure mechanisms, applying mathematical analysis and reliability models to drive corrective actions and project field failures.
- Assess reliability test requirements for non-conforming materials, maintain and improve the reliability database, and produce technical qualification reports and presentations.
What you'll need
- BS or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience in IC reliability.
- Technical background in wafer fab with advanced process nodes, alongside Flip Chip BGA and CoWoS packaging and assembly process technologies.
- Knowledge of CMOS and Fin-FET device physics, reliability statistics, failure models, and failure mechanisms.
- Familiarity with industry standards (such as JEDEC, IPC, and AEC-Q100) for silicon die and package-level qualification, including ESD/LU testing procedures and risk assessment.
- Proficiency in reliability data analysis tools such as JMP, Weibull++, and/or Minitab.
Skills: reliability qualification, IC chips, Fin-FET technologies, failure mechanisms, JEDEC, Weibull++
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This role has been open 101 days — well above the 45-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
497
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Median days open
45 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$149k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | NVIDIA | All employers we track in this specialty (497 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 8 | 497 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 65 | 10118 · 104 employers |
| Median days open | 102 d | 45 d (+57 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $149k |
Skills observed across this category: reliability qualification, IC chips, Fin-FET technologies, failure mechanisms, JEDEC, Weibull++
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 79 open roles · median 91 d
- Infineon Technologies · 32 open roles · median 44 d
- Renesas Electronics · 26 open roles · median 22 d
- STMicroelectronics · 22 open roles · median 20 d
- onsemi · 19 open roles · median 85 d
- Applied Materials · 16 open roles · median 63 d
How we counted: 497 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 75 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 31 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.