Michael Klein

Manager, Battery and Materials Reliability Engineering at Apple

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Technologist leading an organization of engineers ensuring reliability is designed into the batteries and materials at the heart of all of Apple’s products

Experience

  • Apple (8 yrs 2 mos)
    • Manager, Battery and Materials Reliability Engineering
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    • Manager, Battery Reliability Engineering
      Nov 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr

    • Reliability Engineering Manager
      Dec 2021 - Nov 2024 · 3 yrs

      Manage team of engineers working across cameras, depth sensors, proximity and health sensors, display technologies, and III-V optoelectronic components

  • Senior Process Engineer at Tower Semiconductor
    Jun 2017 - May 2018 · 1 yr

    Own all dielectric plasma etch and ash process development and sustaining operations at analog semiconductor foundry.

  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin
    Aug 2012 - May 2017 · 4 yrs 10 mos

    Battery researcher focused on fundamental solid-state electrochemistry of sulfide-based lithium batteries -Published 4 first-author articles, including 2 in JACS -Characterization expert with particular focus on XPS and analytical electron microscopy techniques for a variety of battery, fuel cell, and solar cell nanomaterials within research group

  • Research Assistant at Berkeley Lab
    Jun 2011 - May 2012 · 1 yr

    Developed nanoimprint lithography process for patterned growth of highly ordered arrays of GaN nanowires for optical applications. Characterized InGaN-GaN heterostructure nanowires via SEM-induced cathodoluminescence. Wrote MATLAB software for visualization and normal mode identification of EELS and CL spectra.

  • Research Assistant at University of California, Berkeley
    Jan 2010 - May 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Designed, built, and characterized novel gravimetric water vapor permeation testing apparatus for investigation of high barrier encapsulation layers for printable batteries. Investigated printable zinc battery materials.