Senior/Staff Quality Assurance Engineer or Manager (Foundry)

Core Responsibilities

Quality Management

• Monitor and maintain quality standards across wafer fabrication processes.
• Develop and maintain quality documentation including Control Plans, PFMEA, SOPs, quality procedures, and audit records.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, customer requirements, and internal quality systems. Chair CRB (change request board) to review and make disposition on change request from foundry fabs.

Process Quality & Yield Improvement

• Analyse foundry line yield loss, defect density, process capability, and quality metrics.
• Drive continuous improvement projects (CIP) to reduce defects and improve manufacturing performance.
• Monitor SPC charts and process control systems to identify drift to pro-actively prevent excursions and risks.

Problem Solving & Corrective Actions

• Lead root cause analysis using (not limited to ) 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and statistical tools.
• Investigate quality excursions (NC), wafer defects, customer complaints, and reliability failures.
• Implement and verify CAPA effectiveness to prevent recurrence.

Customer Quality Management

• Act as the primary interface between customers and manufacturing teams on quality-related issues.
• Support customer audits, quality reviews, RMAs, NC, CAPA and corrective action reports.
• Prepare customer quality reports and communicate quality performance metrics.

Reliability & Product Qualification

• Support process qualification, technology transfer, and new process & product introduction activities.
• Review reliability data and ensure products meet qualification requirements.
• Participate in wafer fabrication change management and risk assessment activities.

Audits & Compliance

• Conduct internal process audits and quality system audits.
• Track corrective actions from audit findings through closure.
• Maintain audit readiness for customers and certification bodies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Physics, or related field.
• 5 -10 years of experience in semiconductor wafer fabrication, foundry manufacturing, or semiconductor quality engineering.
• Knowledge of FEOL and BEOL manufacturing processes.
• Technical Skills
• Statistical Process Control (SPC), Failure Analysis (FA), FMEA / PFMEA, CAPA, 8D Problem Solving, DOE (Design of Experiments), Yield Analysis, Reliability Engineering, ISO 9001 (IATF 16949 an advantage)
• Minitab, JMP, Excel, SQL (preferred)

Preferred Experience

• Semiconductor foundry or fab environments such as CMOS, RF, Mixed-Signal technologies, Silicon Photonics an added advantage.
• Customer & foundry quality management and audit experience.
• Technology transfer and process qualification projects.
• Lean Six Sigma certification preferred.