Director Quality, Reliability & I/O

The role

The Director of Quality, Reliability and I/O will lead teams and foundry partnerships for quality, reliability, and advanced interconnect technologies. This role sets technical direction and ensures processes meet performance, reliability, and manufacturability requirements across photonic and electronic platforms.

What you will do

• Lead Quality and Reliability functions, setting priorities and technical direction.
• Build and manage teams for wafer-level bumping, Optical I/O, electrical I/O and back-end interconnect.
• Lead the EIC foundry interface for technology qualification and issue resolution.
• Manage teams maintaining quality systems, reliability plans, and engineering controls.
• Direct qualification and reliability programs for wafer level reliability.
• Drive cross-functional investigations into yield, quality, reliability, and manufacturing issues.
• Ensure design, process, packaging, and test requirements are aligned.
• Develop supplier and foundry relationships and track partner performance.
• Use process, inspection, metrology, test, and reliability data to identify risks.
• Communicate program status, technical risks, and resource needs to executive leadership.

Required qualifications

• Graduate study in electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or a closely related field.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in semiconductor, photonics, electronics, packaging, quality, or reliability engineering.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams or organizations.
• Experience with semiconductor quality and reliability methods, qualification planning, failure analysis, and corrective action.
• Experience with wafer-level bumping and advanced packaging or back-end interconnect technologies.
• Experience with Optical I/O and/or high-speed electrical I/O technologies and their integration with photonic or electronic products.
• Experience interfacing with EIC foundries or other semiconductor manufacturing partners.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing, process integration, design requirements, and product qualification.
• Experience using yield, process-control, metrology, test, and reliability data to drive technical decisions.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional programs involving design, process, product, test, quality, reliability, and external partners.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.

Benefits

• competitive health coverage for you and your dependents
• 401(k) with company match
• equity grants
• access to financial wellness tools and planning resources
• wellness benefits
• family support programs
• life and disability insurance
• paid leave programs
• company-designated paid holidays
• discretionary time off (DTO)
• end-of-year company shutdown

About the company

PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers using a silicon photonics architecture. The company is building utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago.