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.

This foundry quality role focuses on maintaining wafer-fabrication quality systems, improving process yield, and resolving manufacturing and customer quality issues. It also supports audits, process qualification, reliability reviews, and change management across semiconductor production.

Role at a glance

Skills mentioned

What you will likely work on

• Maintain foundry quality standards and documentation, including control plans, PFMEA, SOPs, procedures, and audit records.
• Review change requests from foundry fabs and coordinate their disposition through a change review board.
• Analyze yield loss, defect density, process capability, and control data; drive improvement work to reduce defects and strengthen manufacturing performance.
• Investigate nonconformances, wafer defects, customer complaints, and reliability issues; lead root-cause analysis and verify corrective-action effectiveness.
• Coordinate quality issue resolution between customers and manufacturing teams, including audits, quality reviews, corrective-action reports, and performance reporting.
• Support process qualification, technology transfers, new product and process introductions, reliability reviews, and fabrication change-risk assessments.
• Conduct internal process and quality-system audits and follow findings through closure.

Good fit signals

• Brings 5–10 years of experience in semiconductor wafer fabrication, foundry manufacturing, or semiconductor quality engineering.
• Understands FEOL and BEOL manufacturing processes and can apply statistical and structured problem-solving methods to quality issues.
• Has experience with foundry or fab environments; CMOS, RF, mixed-signal, or silicon photonics exposure is an advantage.
• Customer and foundry quality management, audit work, and qualification or technology-transfer projects align with the role; these are preferred experience signals.
• Lean Six Sigma certification is preferred, while IATF 16949 is an advantage.