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Quality Engineer - FEOL
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee manufacturing processes to ensure adherence to quality standards and specifications.
- Develop and strengthen quality assurance systems that improve product quality, process capability and manufacturing consistency.
- Establish quality objectives, monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), and drive sustainable improvements in customer quality, defect reduction and process performance.
- Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering teams to embed quality into production processes and new technology implementation.
- Foster a prevention-based quality culture that emphasizes risk anticipation, process capability, operational discipline, and continuous learning.
- Govern manufacturing quality risk through PFMEA, Control Plans, change management, MRB, Process Change Notification (PCN), and robust quality review processes.
- Ensure quality risks, non-conformities, and systemic quality issues are proactively identified, investigated, mitigated, and monitored.
- Drive sustainable recurrence prevention and risk reduction across operations.
- Strong analytical skills and statistical methods (like Statistical Process Control and Design of Experiments) to interpret large volumes of data, identify trends, drive yield/performance issues, implement mitigation plans.
- Work closely with process / integration/ reliability team; internal/external customers to ensure seamless integration, address issues, and meet product specifications and quality standards.
- Able to travel on short notice when required.
Requirement :
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field.
- Work experience of at least 5 years. Proven experience (>3 years) in in-process quality control of high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of nanotechnology processes, including lithography, etch, deposition and metrology.
- Proficient in statistical data analysis and process optimization and control techniques (e.g. Design of Experiments, SPC, JMP).
Functional Knowledge
- Experience in FEOL optics or semiconductor fabrication preferred
- Demonstrates depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field
Business Expertise
- Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services
Leadership
- May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity
Problem Solving
- Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions
Impact
- Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies
- Able to travel on short notice when required.
Interpersonal Skills
- Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Experience: 5 - 10 Years
Work Region: Woodlands
Additional Information
Time Type:
Full time
Employee Type:
Assignee / Regular
Travel:
Yes, 10% of the Time
Relocation Eligible:
No
Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.