Quality Assurance Manager

Position: Quality Assurance Manager

Quality Assurance Leadership:

Quality Management System (QMS):

Supplier Quality Management:

• Establish quality expectations and audit criteria for foundries, OSATs, and test vendors.
• Manage scorecards, supplier 8D responses, and escalation of systemic quality escapes.

Customer Quality:

• Interface with Tier-1 infrastructure customers for quality dashboards, PCN alignment, and RMA investigation outcomes.
• Lead root cause analysis (5-Why, Fishbone, Fault Tree) and customer communications related to returns.

Product and Package Qualification:

• Develop comprehensive device and package-level qualification plans in collaboration with Product Engineering, Design, and Reliability teams, ensuring alignment with JEDEC, AEC-Q100, and customer-specific standards.
• Own and maintain the qualification catalog including technology, device, and package qualifications; family qualification matrices; and Qualification by Extension (QBE) specifications to enable reuse, ensure traceability, and support efficient qualification planning.

Compliance and Certification:

• Ensure adherence to JEDEC (JESD47, JESD22), ISO 9001, RoHS, REACH, 3TG, and relevant military standards (e.g., MIL-STD-883) as applicable to product classification.
• Lead environmental compliance efforts across its supply chain, ensuring alignment with ISO 14001 principles and integrating sustainability considerations into supplier qualification, risk management, and corporate policy.
• Prepare the Company for audit readiness and maintain certification artifacts and audit closure documentation.

Yield Management & Quality Correlation:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Materials Science and Engineering (BSMSE), Applied Physics (BSAP), or a related technical field is required. A Masters degree with a focus on reliability engineering is a plus.

• 8+ years of quality management experience in the semiconductor industry.

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence quality outcomes across internal and external stakeholders.
• In-depth knowledge of industry quality standards including JEDEC, ISO 9001, AEC-Q100, and military standards such as MIL-STD-883.
• Expertise in developing qualification plans for stress-driven reliability testing.
• Deep experience with semiconductors in SiGe, GaAs, and GaN technologies.
• Detailed knowledge of wafer fabrication methods and package assembly techniques (QFN, Flip-chip, LGA, BGA).
• Proven experience implementing and managing QMS systems.
• Strong understanding of root cause analysis of semiconductor ICs and FA techniques (CSAM, X-ray, SEM/EDX, FIB-SEM, EMMI, CIVA, curve tracing, de-cap analysis, and elemental techniques such as SIMS, XPS, or AES).
• Proficient at 8D reporting and coordinating supplier audits.