The Product Quality Engineer is an important customer-facing, hands-on role within the Corporate Quality team which owns product quality and interfaces daily with our business groups and divisions. This position requires strong collaboration with Product & Test Engineering, Customer Quality, Central Engineering, and Manufacturing & Operations for Analog Mixed Signal group.
The ideal candidate will possess 8+ years of semiconductor industry experience with a strong background in one or more of the following disciplines:
- Product Quality Engineering
- Reliability Engineering
- Product Engineering
- Sustaining Product Engineering
- Test Engineering
Responsibilities
- Product Quality responsibility from qualification through production release to end of life. Become and be the subject matter expert regarding a product’s quality.
- Serve as the quality focal point for assigned product families and technology platforms.
- Establish quality strategies, risk mitigation plans, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Drive improvement through involvement in safe launch and analysis of customer returns to identify weaknesses and propose systemic solutions.
- Engage with Analog Mixed Signal business unit and manufacturing, fostering a collaborative team environment to resolve challenges to ensure quality goals are met.
- Support sustaining product engineering activities including yield excursions and quality issues.
- Collaborate with Test Engineering to improve test coverage, guard-banding, screening strategy, and defect detection capability.
- Analyze manufacturing and test data to identify quality and reliability risks.
- Support statistical analysis of production data to drive yield and quality improvements.
- Key member of cross-functional global 8D teams to ensure expedient resolution of customer quality issues from initiation to closure.
- Execute fast, effective containment.
- Facilitate the use of structured problem-solving tools (Is/Is-Not, Fault Tree Analysis, Fishbone, 5-why, 8D) for thorough root cause investigations to ensure effective corrective actions (occurrence, escape and systemic).
- Deploy lessons learned across organizational boundaries and contribute to continuous improvement activities.
- Report and present to internal (and external as needed) customers regularly documenting it as necessary.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Semiconductor Engineering, or equivalent.
- 8+ years in Product Quality Engineering or a comparable role, in the semiconductor industry, e.g. Reliability, Product Test, Failure Analysis or Product Engineering.
- Good knowledge of semiconductor device fabrication, package assembly and testing with familiarity of fail mechanisms and symptoms.
- Strong analytical and statistical problem-solving skills.
- Excellent ability to manage both internal and external dynamic environments and circumstances through influence and negotiation skills to respond to challenging information and situations.
- Candidate should have a solid quality / engineering background, along with good team collaboration and communication skills across worldwide time zones with a track record of accomplishments
- Experience with EFAR, 8D, PPAP, APQP, PCN, and customer quality management.
- Experience supporting automotive, industrial, power management, mixed-signal, or analog semiconductor products preferred.
- Strong technical problem solving and hands-on skills in quality tools and methodologies; Automotive knowledge, e.g. APQP, AEC and VDA a plus.
About Us
onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.
