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The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer joins the Silicon Manufacturing & Product Engineering team to support the development of custom and semi-custom SoC products. This role involves leading the supplier quality engineering roadmap, managing NPI product ramps, and establishing methodologies for onboarding new suppliers. The engineer will drive quality strategies at OSAT, ODM, Foundry, and indirect material suppliers while defining qualification criteria and reliability plans to de-risk future products. Key responsibilities include conducting supplier audits, resolving high-impact quality events through RCCA and CAPA activities, and managing FMEA, DFM, DFR, and DFQ initiatives for complex components. The role requires expertise in semiconductor manufacturing, advanced silicon process nodes, TSV, and CPO technologies. Candidates should possess a technical degree in engineering or computer science and experience with quality management systems and SoC product qualification.
Lead the supplier quality engineering roadmap for custom and semi-custom SoC development.
Establish methodologies and requirements for onboarding new suppliers and managing NPI product ramps.
Develop quality strategies and reliability plans for OSAT, ODM, Foundry, and indirect material suppliers.
Define supplier benchmarking methodologies and conduct audits as required.
Lead investigations into high-impact quality events and drive RCCA and CAPA activities.
Coordinate with internal teams from silicon to datacenter levels to provide end-to-end quality leadership.
Execute FMEA activities for risk mitigation on new, unique, different, or difficult components in the NPI roadmap.
Drive DFM, DFR, and DFQ initiatives to ensure manufacturing and design quality.
What we're looking for
A Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ years of technical engineering experience.
A Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields and 4+ years of technical engineering experience.
A Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of technical engineering experience.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check and meet government security screening requirements.
Must provide proof of citizenship or protected status for assessment of eligibility to access export-controlled information.
Experience in manufacturing and supplier quality engineering (preferred).
Experience in semiconductors and hi-tech manufacturing industry (preferred).
Knowledge of advanced silicon process nodes, TSV, CPO, and other new technologies (preferred).
Experience defining quality management system methodology and implementation (preferred).
Experience in SoC product qualification and interactions with board and system level (preferred).
ASQ CQE, VDA audit, Six Sigma Black Belt, or ISO certification (preferred).
SPC
Six Sigma
8D
Root Cause Analysis
Corrective Action
Manufacturing Engineering
Project Management
Design for Manufacturability
First Article Inspection
Process Specification
Engineering Drawings
Supplier Audit