Switch Quality Engineer

What you'll do

• Drive supplier and internal teams to achieve high-quality product releases through test plan reviews and failure analysis.
• Manage quality activities including part approval, process control, risk identification, and mitigation planning during NPI transitions.
• Monitor manufacturing yield, first-pass yield excursions, and field performance metrics to drive corrective actions.
• Lead root cause investigations using 8D, 5-Why, and statistical analysis to resolve hardware and firmware defects.
• Analyze large datasets of test telemetry and manufacturing data to provide actionable recommendations for product reliability.
• Serve as the primary quality interface with suppliers to manage customer escalations and ensure long-term resolution.
• Define supplier build report expectations, including quality metrics, yield monitoring, and escalation requirements.
• Travel to supplier locations to conduct audits, investigations, and continuous improvement activities.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with switch architectures, networking systems, AI fabric interconnects, and system-level quality concepts (preferred).
• Proficiency in DFx, xFMEA, NUDD, root cause analysis, statistical process control, and reliability testing (preferred).
• Experience supporting cloud service providers, hyperscale customers, or data center networking environments (preferred).
• Proven experience leading quality excursions and resolving complex manufacturing, supplier, and customer issues (preferred).
• Ability to derive data-driven insights from large datasets and telemetry to influence technical decision-making (preferred).
• Experience working with ODMs and CMs to establish manufacturing quality requirements (preferred).
• Familiarity with hardware/firmware interaction and reliability qualification methodologies like HALT or HASS (preferred).