Principal Supplier Quality Engineer /China

The role

This leader will drive supplier and manufacturing quality engineering across semiconductor, board-level, optical, and rack-scale system products. You will manage supplier quality, handle customer quality issues, and use advanced data analytics to predict quality and supply chain risks.

What you will do

• Drive supplier quality engineering activities including failure analysis, root-cause identification, and corrective actions.
• Lead containment, escalation, and recovery actions for supplier-driven quality excursions.
• Conduct regular focus line audits at key suppliers.
• Develop supplier selection and onboarding processes.
• Define, build, and manage systems to collect KPI data to track supplier performance.
• Audit supplier process controls, manufacturing capabilities, and quality management systems.
• Work with regional customers to investigate and resolve supplier-related quality issues.
• Handle customer quality issues using tools such as 8D, 5-why, and FMEA.
• Manage customer messaging and provide status updates.
• Create data collection methods for advanced data analytics.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of career progression in supplier quality engineering in the semiconductor, rack-scale system, optics, and/or board-level electronics industry.
• 3+ years direct experience working embedded within a high volume advanced manufacturing operation in an engineering role.
• Experience with supplier development in Asia with global manufacturing supply chains.
• Experience interfacing with customers to handle customer quality issues, customer audits, RMA requests and other technical requests.
• Experience serving as a direct interface with the customer with strong expertise to analyze and resolve product quality issues effectively and efficiently.
• Strong knowledge of IC fabrication, packaging (including chiplet), test processes, board assembly (SMT) and testing, rack-scale system product manufacturing and testing, and optical product manufactur
• Familiarity with reliability qualification methodologies in the application of IPC, Telcordia, JEDEC requirements.
• Proficiency with quality engineering tools (FMEA, APQP, PPAP, SPC, OE, etc.).
• Experience using analytics tools (e.g., JMP, SQL, Excel) to support quality insights.
• Strong project management and problem-solving skills.
• Fluent in English and Mandarin

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML tools
• Six Sigma or ASQ certification
• Exposure to AI/ML frameworks

About the company

Astera Labs (NASDAQ: ALAB) provides rack-scale AI infrastructure through purpose-built connectivity solutions. The company’s Intelligent Connectivity Platform integrates semiconductor-based technologies with the COSMOS software suite.