Senior Manufacturing and Supplier Quality Engineer

About Altera

At Altera™, our independence as the world’s largest pure‑play FPGA solutions provider gives us the focus, speed, and agility to innovate without compromise. With more than four decades of industry‑leading FPGA expertise, our singular mission is to deliver the programmable technologies that help customers differentiate, innovate, and scale across rapidly evolving markets like AI, cloud, networking, and edge. As an independent company, we move faster, invest deeper, and partner more closely—empowering our teams to drive breakthrough innovation and shape the future of the FPGA industry.

We are seeking a Senior Manufacturing and Supplier Quality Engineer to lead the manufacturing quality and end‑to‑end supplier quality management of Altera FPGA products. In this role, you will partner cross‑functionally with engineering, operations, and external manufacturing suppliers to ensure all quality requirements are met. You will drive rapid issue resolution, govern supplier quality performance, and leverage statistical process controls and advanced data analytics to safeguard product quality.

• Drive manufacturing ramp of FPGA products, ensuring product quality and reliability compliance across industrial, commercial, automotive, and Aerospace, Defense, & Government (ADG) market segments.
• Perform risk assessments, define quality and reliability goals, and enable key decisions that affect product quality and reliability.
• Drive manufacturing optimization, product quality excursion resolution, and High‑Volume Manufacturing (HVM) reliability assessments to achieve continuous DPPM improvement.
• Lead supplier quality management, ensuring OSAT partners comply with Altera, ISO 9001, IATF 16949, and AS9100D quality requirements.
• Define, monitor, and drive supplier quality KPIs and performance improvements.
• Lead cross‑functional teams to resolve supplier quality incidents and customer issues by driving root‑cause analysis and executing robust CAPA workflows.
• Drive continuous supplier quality improvements and execute initiatives to reduce manufacturing and supplier‑related quality incidents.
• Lead and execute supplier qualification activities, including Bill of Materials (BOM), package configuration, OSAT qualification, and test site transitions.
• Lead supplier quality audits to verify OSAT process compliance with ISO 9001, IATF 16949, and AS9100D standards, focusing on risk mitigation, traceability, counterfeit prevention, statistical process controls, and CAPA effectiveness.
• Support San Jose (SJ) production test operations by providing quality assurance oversight for production test stand‑up activities, test process readiness, and ongoing production test quality maintenance to ensure manufacturing excellence.
• Support San Jose laboratory quality compliance by maintaining laboratory quality systems, including equipment calibration, ESD compliance, environmental controls, and adherence to established quality and safety procedures.
• Partner with manufacturing, supplier quality, and operations teams to maintain and continuously improve internal QMS processes, ensuring compliance with ISO 9001, AS9100D, and ADG quality requirements.
• Monitor post‑launch quality metrics to identify systemic improvement opportunities and establish a robust closed‑loop feedback system, integrating lessons learned into future product architecture and manufacturing processes.

$149,100 - $215,000 USD (Bay Area, California). Actual salary may vary based on a number of factors including job location, job‑related knowledge, skills, experiences, trainings, etc. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.

• Minimum Qualifications:
  
  Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing and supplier quality engineering, with a demonstrated track record of optimizing manufacturing workflows and resolving complex silicon, packaging, and product quality issues.
• 8+ years of experience across the semiconductor product lifecycle,…