Quality Product Engineer

Job Description

Renesas is seeking a Quality Product Engineering focused on Quality Assurance to lead quality improvement initiatives specifically geared towards new product development and volume ramp up to deliver on time high quality and ramp ready products that meet customer timelines and expectations. In this role, you will help drive Renesas product quality to achieve a zero‑defect mindset. This role will collaborate closely with NPI execution teams, PMO office, Renesas R&D Engineering, Quality teams, enterprise foundation, and factory Operations teams.

• Define, track, and drive continuous quality improvement initiatives: Implement strategies to build in and improve NPI product quality, leveraging data‑driven insights and cross‑functional collaboration to exceed customer expectations. Work with counterparts in the Power STO (Strategy, Technology and Operations) team to implement changes in the development process as needed and to advocate for new tools/capabilities to further improve our delivered quality.
• Analyze and report quality performance (DPPM): Provide actionable insights through regular reporting on customer returns, identifying trends, root causes, and areas for improvement.
• Foster and maintain strong relationships with Quality teams (inc. customer QA): Serve as a liaison to external customer quality assurance teams (CQE, factory quality) to ensure alignment and timely support. Assess organization training needs and leverage the Renesas Quality Team to improve product group skillsets in root cause analysis, developing corrective actions, and preventive measures.
• Implement customer‑specific quality requirements: Ensure customer‑specific standards are incorporated and rigorously followed during design, development, samples, and production processes, promoting accountability, consistency and reliability. Also ensuring compliance with Renesas business processes and internal/external audit readiness.
• Lead cross‑functional teams (internal to BD and enterprise foundation teams) to resolve critical quality issues: Coordinate and drive rapid, structured problem‑solving efforts involving engineering, production, and supply chain teams to quickly resolve quality concerns.
• Ensure or define standards compliance for Automotive products: Clearly define customer level requirements if required to the adoption of regulatory, industry, and customer requirements in product definition and performance.
• Serve as representative on external standards committees relevant to PCP products.

• 10+ years of experience in product development or quality engineering teams
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree Preferred
• Excellent communication skills, organizational, and people skills, with a proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams
• Solid understanding of new product development process and associated quality standards and business processes, semiconductor supply chain and production environments
• Expertise with statistical analysis, structured problem‑solving methodologies – 8D, 3x5 Why, and making data‑driven decisions
• Ability to manage supplier excursions and drive resolution of customer escalations
• Knowledge of commercial and automotive quality standards

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.