Staff Product Quality Engineer

Job description

The Product Quality Engineer is an important customer-facing, hands-on role within the Corporate Quality team which owns product quality and interfaces daily with our business groups and divisions. This position requires strong collaboration with Product & Test Engineering, Customer Quality, Central Engineering, and Manufacturing & Operations for Analog Mixed Signal group. The ideal candidate will possess 8+ years of semiconductor industry experience with a strong background in one or more of the following disciplines: Product Quality Engineering Reliability Engineering Product Engineering Sustaining Product Engineering Test Engineering

Responsibilities

Product Quality responsibility from qualification through production release to end of life. Become and be the subject matter expert regarding a product’s quality. Serve as the quality focal point for assigned product families and technology platforms. Establish quality strategies, risk mitigation plans, and continuous improvement initiatives. Drive improvement through involvement in safe launch and analysis of customer returns to identify weaknesses and propose systemic solutions.

Engage with Analog Mixed Signal business unit and manufacturing, fostering a collaborative team environment to resolve challenges to ensure quality goals are met. Support sustaining product engineering activities including yield excursions and quality issues. Collaborate with Test Engineering to improve test coverage, guard-banding, screening strategy, and defect detection capability. Analyze manufacturing and test data to identify quality and reliability risks.

Support statistical analysis of production data to drive yield and quality improvements. Key member of cross-functional global 8D teams to ensure expedient resolution of customer quality issues from initiation to closure. Execute fast, effective containment. Facilitate the use of structured problem-solving tools (Is/Is-Not, Fault Tree Analysis, Fishbone, 5-why, 8D) for thorough root cause investigations to ensure effective corrective actions (occurrence, escape and systemic).

Deploy lessons learned across organizational boundaries and contribute to continuous improvement activities. Report and present to internal (and external as needed) customers regularly documenting it as necessary.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Semiconductor Engineering, or equivalent. 8+ years in Product Quality Engineering or a comparable role, in the semiconductor industry, e.g. Reliability, Product Test, Failure Analysis or Product Engineering. Good knowledge of semiconductor device fabrication, package assembly and testing with familiarity of fail mechanisms and symptoms. Strong analytical and statistical problem-solving skills.

Excellent ability to manage both internal and external dynamic environments and circumstances through influence and negotiation skills to respond to challenging information and situations. Candidate should have a solid quality / engineering background, along with good team collaboration and communication skills across worldwide time zones with a track record of accomplishments Experience with EFAR, 8D, PPAP, APQP, PCN, and customer quality management.

Experience supporting automotive, industrial, power management, mixed-signal, or analog semiconductor products preferred. Strong technical problem solving and hands-on skills in quality tools and methodologies; Automotive knowledge, e.g. APQP, AEC and VDA a plus.