Senior/Staff Quality Assurance Engineer or Manager (Foundry)

The role

This person will monitor and maintain quality standards across wafer fabrication processes. They will lead root cause analysis, drive continuous improvement projects, and act as the primary interface between customers and manufacturing teams.

What you will do

• 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 to review and make disposition on change request from foundry fabs.
• Analyse foundry line yield loss, defect density, process capability, and quality metrics.
• Drive continuous improvement projects to reduce defects and improve manufacturing performance.
• Monitor SPC charts and process control systems to identify drift.
• Lead root cause analysis using 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and statistical tools.
• Investigate quality excursions, wafer defects, customer complaints, and reliability failures.
• Implement and verify CAPA effectiveness to prevent recurrence.

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.
• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Failure Analysis (FA)
• FMEA / PFMEA
• CAPA
• 8D Problem Solving
• DOE (Design of Experiments)
• Yield Analysis
• Reliability Engineering
• ISO 9001

Nice to have

• IATF 16949 an advantage
• Minitab, JMP, Excel, SQL (preferred)
• 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.

About the company

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