Staff Product Quality Engineer

Job Summary:

onsemi is seeking a self-driven and motivated professional to join the Product Quality team. The Product Quality Engineer is an important customer-facing, hands-on role within the Corporate Quality team which owns product quality and interfaces daily with our business groups and divisions.  This position requires strong collaboration with Product & Test Engineering, Customer Quality, Central Engineering, Manufacturing & Operations and Power Solutions Group. This role can be based in Scottsdale, AZ or Allen, Texas. 

Responsibilities

• Product Quality responsibility from qualification through production release to end of life. Become and be the subject matter expert regarding a product’s quality.
• Drive improvement through involvement in safe launch and analysis of customer returns to identify weaknesses and propose systemic solutions.     
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and Test Engineering teams to improve test coverage, guard-banding, screening strategy, and defect detection capability. 
• Analyze manufacturing, test and failure analysis data to guide the identification of root causes, assess quality and reliability risk, and drive yield and quality improvements.
• Engage with  Power Solutions Group and manufacturing, fostering a collaborative team environment to resolve challenges to ensure goals are met.
• Key member of cross-functional global 8D teams to ensure expedient and effective resolution of customer quality issues from initiation to closure.
• Execute fast, effective containment.
• Facilitate the use of structured problem-solving tools (Is/Is-Not, Fault Tree Analysis, Fishbone, 5-why, 8D) for thorough root cause investigations to ensure effective corrective actions (occurrence, escape and systemic).
• Deploy lessons learned across organizational boundaries and contribute to continuous improvement activities.
• Report and present to internal (and external as needed) customers regularly documenting it as necessary.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Semiconductor/ Quality and Engineering, or relevant field.
• 8+ years in Product Quality Engineering or a comparable role, in the semiconductor industry, e.g. Customer Quality (commercial and/or automotive), Reliability, Product Test, Failure Analysis or Product Engineering.
• Strong technical problem solving and hands-on skills in quality tools and methodologies; Automotive knowledge, e.g. APQP, AEC and VDA a plus.
• Good knowledge of semiconductor device fabrication, package assembly and testing with familiarity of fail mechanisms and symptoms.
• Excellent ability to manage both internal and external dynamic environments and circumstances through influence and negotiation skills to respond to challenging information and situations.
• Candidate should have a solid quality / engineering background, along with good team collaboration and communication skills across worldwide time zones with a track record of accomplishments.
• Experienced in performing statistical data analysis to draw data-based conclusions and guide investigations toward root cause finding and corrective actions.
• Knowledge and experience in design, fabrication, reliability and failure analysis of power electronics is preferred. 
• Fluency in utilizing AI to enhance work efficiency is a plus.  

onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a continued focus on the automotive and industrial end-markets, onsemi is accelerating change and driving disruptive innovation towards a sustainable ecosystem in high-growth megatrends such as vehicle electrification, advanced safety, alternative energy, and factory automation. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world. Today, the industrial and automotive end-markets are responsible for two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions, providing an immense opportunity for onsemi to do its part in achieving a net-zero economy with its intelligent power and sensing technologies. Climate change presents not only a risk to the environment, but also opportunities for innovative business solutions, and onsemi is committed to applying its research and design expertise and adapting its own operations to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040.