About the role
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.