Senior / Staff Reliability Engineer
$128,000 - $192,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 26 August 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on advanced semiconductor and hardware products.
About the role
This role leads reliability strategy, qualification execution, risk assessment, and reliability improvement initiatives across advanced semiconductor and hardware products. The successful candidate will influence product and technology decisions through data-driven reliability engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Lead reliability strategy and qualification execution.
- Develop risk-based validation strategies.
- Perform failure analysis.
- Apply statistical reliability modeling.
- Influence product and technology decisions through data-driven reliability engineering practices.
- Drive cross-functional alignment.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Material Science, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Reliability Engineering (e.g., reliability analysis, stress testing) experience.
- 1+ year in a technical leadership role.
- Strong experience in product reliability qualification, reliability execution, and validation methodologies.
- Expertise in reliability risk assessment techniques such as DFMEA, PFMEA, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), or similar approaches.
- Strong understanding of reliability physics, failure mechanisms, degradation models, acceleration factors, and lifetime prediction methodologies.
- Experience with industry standards such as JEDEC, IEC, Telcordia, MIL-STD, or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Reliability Engineering, or Physics.
- Familiarity with reliability testing including HTOL, HAST, THB, temperature cycling, thermal shock, vibration, mechanical shock, ESD, latch-up, and package qualification.
- Experience with semiconductor, packaging, PCB, module, or electronic system technologies.
- Knowledge of intrinsic technology reliability, semiconductor device reliability characterization, and technology-level failure mechanisms.
- Experience using analytical and modeling tools such as JMP, ReliaSoft, Python, MATLAB, Minitab, or equivalent.
Skills: reliability qualification, stress testing, failure analysis, statistical reliability modeling, JEDEC
This role has been open 50 days — below the 57-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
425
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$158k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (425 roles · 70 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 425 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 51 | 9867 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 50 d | 57 d (−7 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $158k |
Skills observed across this category: reliability qualification, stress testing, failure analysis, statistical reliability modeling, JEDEC
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 75 open roles · median 146 d
- Infineon Technologies · 32 open roles · median 49 d
- Renesas Electronics · 20 open roles · median 41 d
- Intel Corporation · 19 open roles · median 35 d
- Analog Devices · 18 open roles · median 55 d
- onsemi · 18 open roles · median 73 d
How we counted: 425 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 70 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 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.