Semiconductor Quality Manager — NPI & Reliability (Remote)

Forefront RF; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Share Option Scheme

Private medical insurance

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Weekly company lunches

Flexible work hours and remote work

Life assurance x4

Income protection

Healthshield Cash plan

Heka flexible benefits platform

Pension contributions

Job summary

Forefront RF is expanding its quality leadership as part of moving from development into production. You will spearhead the creation and ongoing refinement of the Quality Management System to meet ISO 9001 and industry best practices, working with engineering, operations, and external partners such as foundries and OSATs to assure product quality.

You will drive product qualification, reliability testing, and root cause investigations while defining KPIs and leading cross‑functional improvements

Qualifications

• Experience in quality engineering/management within the semiconductor or electronics industry.
• Proven collaboration with external manufacturing partners (foundries, OSATs, test providers).
• Strong understanding of qualification, reliability testing, and production quality management.
• Experience applying structured problem-solving methodologies such as 8D, FMEA, SPC, or Six Sigma.
• Experience supporting customer and supplier quality requirements, issue resolution.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Quality Management System (QMS).
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001 and semiconductor industry best practices.
• Establish scalable quality and reliability processes for NPI, product qualification, ramp, and scale-up.
• Lead product qualification, reliability testing, failure analysis, and root cause investigations.
• Manage quality relationships with external manufacturing partners and suppliers.
• Monitor product and supplier performance data, defining KPIs and driving improvements.
• Support customer qualification and ongoing product quality improvement.

Skills

Quality engineering

8D / FMEA / SPC / Six Sigma

Problem solving and analytics

Job description

Forefront RF is expanding its quality leadership as part of moving from development into production. You will spearhead the creation and ongoing refinement of the Quality Management System to meet ISO 9001 and industry best practices, working with engineering, operations, and external partners such as foundries and OSATs to assure product quality.

You will drive product qualification, reliability testing, and root cause investigations while defining KPIs and leading cross‑functional improvements