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Staff Engineer, Wafer Quality Assurance

San Jose, CA, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead wafer quality assurance and failure analysis, driving digitalization and AI integration to transition from reactive to predictive quality management.

Role type

Staff Engineer, Wafer Quality Assurance (AI & Digitalization focus)

Builds

Automated quality surveillance, anomaly detection solutions, and AI-powered quality engineering tools for semiconductor manufacturing.

Domain

Semiconductor manufacturing / Wafer Quality Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Wafer failure analysis (FA), 8D problem solving, FMEA, root cause analysis, statistical/model-performance analysis, cross-functional collaboration, CAPA implementation

Preferred skills

Generative AI and digital agent technologies, AI/ML systems, HAMR wafer product knowledge, SPC, data storytelling and visualization

Technologies

Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Copilot, Digital Agents, AI/ML systems

Responsibilities

Perform wafer paper failure analysis and provide disposition; Facilitate wafer manufacturing readiness review (MRR) and process design readiness (PDR) meetings; Lead FMEA activities to mitigate failure modes; Partner with teams to implement automated quality surveillance; Drive digitalization initiatives for CAPA and risk assessment; Evaluate and integrate generative AI for engineering productivity; Participate in deploying AI-assisted quality monitoring for CRB, MRB, FA, and FMEA.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic initiative ownership

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