Senior/Staff Quality Assurance Engineer or Manager (Foundry)

Job description

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Quality Management - Monitor and maintain quality standards across wafer fabrication processes. - Develop and maintain quality documentation including Control Plans, PFMEA, SOPs, quality procedures, and audit records. - Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, customer requirements, and internal quality systems. Chair CRB (change request board) to review and make disposition on change request from foundry fabs. Process Quality & Yield Improvement - Analyse foundry line yield loss, defect density, process capability, and quality metrics. - Drive continuous improvement projects (CIP) to reduce defects and improve manufacturing performance. - Monitor SPC charts and process control systems to identify drift to pro-actively prevent excursions and risks. Problem Solving & Corrective Actions - Lead root cause analysis using (not limited to ) 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and statistical tools. - Investigate quality excursions (NC), wafer defects, customer complaints, and reliability failures. - Implement and verify CAPA effectiveness to prevent recurrence. Customer Quality Management - Act as the primary interface between customers and manufacturing teams on quality-related issues. - Support customer audits, quality reviews, RMAs, NC, CAPA and corrective action reports. - Prepare customer quality reports and communicate quality performance metrics. Reliability & Product Qualification - Support process qualification, technology transfer, and new process & product introduction activities. - Review reliability data and ensure products meet qualification requirements. - Participate in wafer fabrication change management and risk assessment activities. Audits & Compliance - Conduct internal process audits and quality system audits. - Track corrective actions from audit findings through closure. - Maintain audit readiness for customers and certification bodies. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or related field. - 5 -10 years of experience in semiconductor wafer fabrication, foundry manufacturing, or semiconductor quality engineering. - Knowledge of FEOL and BEOL manufacturing processes. - Technical Skills - Statistical Process Control (SPC), Failure Analysis (FA), FMEA / PFMEA, CAPA, 8D Problem Solving, DOE (Design of Experiments), Yield Analysis, Reliability Engineering, ISO 9001 (IATF 16949 an advantage) - Minitab, JMP, Excel, SQL (preferred) PREFERRED EXPERIENCE - Semiconductor foundry or fab environments such as CMOS, RF, Mixed-Signal technologies, Silicon Photonics an added advantage. - Customer & foundry quality management and audit experience. - Technology transfer and process qualification projects. - Lean Six Sigma certification preferred.