Supplier Quality Engineer (Fab)

Description

• Serve as the primary technical quality interface to wafer fabs and foundry partners, ensuring alignment on quality expectations, process capability, and long‑term improvement plans.
• Develop and execute supplier quality strategies that strengthen front‑end manufacturing performance and reduce risk across the supply chain.
• Influence supplier leadership and internal stakeholders to prioritize quality, reliability, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Provide deep technical oversight of wafer fabrication processes, including lithography, etch, deposition, CMP, implant, diffusion, and BEOL metallization.
• Assess supplier process capability, SPC control, equipment stability, and defect management systems to ensure robust, scalable manufacturing.
• Review and approve process documentation, control plans, PFMEAs, and manufacturing specifications.

• Lead complex problem‑solving efforts for systemic supplier issues, excursions, and customer‑impacting defects.
• Drive rigorous root cause analysis and ensure durable corrective and preventive actions are implemented and verified.

• Conduct in‑depth technical audits focused on wafer fab capability, quality systems, reliability performance, and process maturity.
• Develop and execute supplier improvement plans that elevate process capability, yield, and defect performance.
• Mentor suppliers on quality methodologies, reliability expectations, and advanced process control.

• Drive improvement initiatives that elevate supplier capability and reduce variability.
• Identify and implement innovative approaches to improve wafer quality, reliability, and operational efficiency.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or related technical field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in semiconductor wafer fabrication, supplier quality, process engineering, or foundry management.
• Deep technical knowledge of FEOL and BEOL processes, inline metrology, defect inspection, and yield engineering.
• Proven experience directly interfacing with wafer fabs or foundries and driving supplier‑level corrective actions and process improvements.
• Strong understanding of SPC, DOE, FMEA, MSA, 8D, and other quality and reliability methodologies.
• Ability to interpret wafer maps, defect paretos, SPC charts, inline data, and reliability results.