Senior Reliability Engineer
Cupertino, California, Us
Had the privilege of contributing to Apple’s transition of MacBooks to Apple Silicon, housed in a newly architected enclosure design.- The first milestone in this journey was leading the Reliability team to help bring the inaugural M1 14" and 16" MacBook Pros to market in 2021.This role required:- A technical deep dive to understand the intricacies of the new design and how different usage cases could expose vulnerabilities.- Conducting supplemental research (both in-house and with external consulting firms) to set well researched test specifications.- Leading extensive FMEAs on adhesives, subsystems, and at the system level to ensure that the right design questions were addressed early, enabling impactful changes before it was too late.Additionally, I gained experience leading a team of engineers within my function and, at times, across divisions. This included presenting a nuanced understanding of complex issues to Leadership, prioritizing focus areas, and driving collaborative solutions to ensure success of this groundbreaking product line. - Following this, I turned my focus to the iconic 13" MacBook Air, integrating the best practices and lessons learned in the prior years. My role shifted to focus primarily on display integration, offering new learning opportunities, including:- Navigating a steep learning curve to master failure modes of display technologies and the product design fundamentals for this critical subsystem.- Taking on more challenging cross-disciplinary design decisions and leading efforts to make fundamental changes to the product definition by quantitatively communicating the customer benefits of a more robust design envelope to align the team and converge on improved solutions.Ultimately, this journey culminated with the launch of the 15" MacBook Air, where the challenges were unique and particularly challenging from a durability perspective as we sought to bring to market the thinnest 15" laptop to our customers.