Senior/Staff Quality Assurance Engineer or Manager (Foundry)
Core
Monitor and maintain quality standards across wafer fabrication processes, analyze yield loss and defect density, and lead root cause analysis for quality excursions in a foundry environment.
Role type
Senior/Staff Quality Assurance Engineer or Manager (Semiconductor Foundry)
Builds
Wafer fabrication processes (FEOL/BEOL) for semiconductor foundries
Domain
Semiconductor manufacturing / Wafer fabrication
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Statistical Process Control (SPC), Failure Analysis (FA), FMEA/PFMEA, CAPA, 8D Problem Solving, DOE, Yield Analysis, Reliability Engineering, ISO 9001 compliance
Preferred skills
Lean Six Sigma, SQL, Technology transfer, Process qualification
Technologies
Minitab, JMP, Excel, SQL
Responsibilities
Monitor and maintain quality standards across wafer fabrication processes; Analyze foundry line yield loss, defect density, and process capability; Lead root cause analysis using 8D, 5 Why, Fishbone, and statistical tools; Act as the primary interface between customers and manufacturing teams on quality-related issues; Conduct internal process audits and quality system audits; Support process qualification, technology transfer, and new process & product introduction activities.
Seniority
Senior/Staff, hands-on IC with management responsibilities