Senior Quality Leader - AI Hardware & Supplier Excellence

Fractile; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Private medical

Pension

25 days holiday

Life/Critical Illness Insurance

Job summary

Fractile in the UK is seeking a senior quality leader to drive the quality function across supplier, product and software domains. You will ensure compliance with RoHS/REACH and build robust processes for audits, CAPAs and change control.

Based in the UK, you will partner with engineering and operations to embed quality gates in NPI and product lifecycle, lead a quality team, and maintain strong relationships with customers through proactive quality management.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading a quality function in semiconductors or electronics hardware.
• Experience managing quality through outsourced manufacturing: foundries, OSATs, test houses or contract manufacturers.
• Deep knowledge of ISO 9001 and hands-on experience building or running a certified QMS.
• Working knowledge of semiconductor qualification and reliability (JEDEC), failure analysis.
• Experience handling customer quality escalations with large, demanding customers.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the quality strategy aligned to the product roadmap.
• Build, lead and develop a quality team covering supplier, product, reliability, software and systems quality.
• Define and report quality performance to the executive team.
• Establish document control, change control, CAPA, internal audit, training and records processes.
• Work with PMO to embed quality gates into NPI and product lifecycle processes.
• Own quality across the supply chain: wafer foundry, assembly and packaging, wafer and final test, PCB/PCBA and system-level contract manufacturers.
• Lead supplier selection, qualification, audits and quarterly business reviews.
• Work with engineering leaders to define software quality standards across drivers, firmware, SDKs and runtime.
• Establish release criteria, test coverage expectations, defect management and regression processes aligned with CI/CD.
• Bring in secure development and software supply chain practice, including SBOMs and vulnerability management.
• Support responsible AI and AI management practice where customers ask for it, including ISO/IEC 42001.
• Be the senior point of contact for customer quality, audits and escalations.
• Lead customer RMA and complaint handling, root cause analysis and 8D responses to agreed timelines.
• Ensure product compliance with RoHS, REACH, WEEE, conflict minerals reporting, UKCA and CE marking, and relevant safety and EMC standards.

Skills

Quality leadership

Supplier audits

Root cause analysis

QMS implementation

ISO 9001

8D, FMEA

Travel internationally

Education

Electrical engineering degree

Tools

QMS software

SPC tools

Audit tooling

Job description

Fractile in the UK is seeking a senior quality leader to drive the quality function across supplier, product and software domains. You will ensure compliance with RoHS/REACH and build robust processes for audits, CAPAs and change control.

Based in the UK, you will partner with engineering and operations to embed quality gates in NPI and product lifecycle, lead a quality team, and maintain strong relationships with customers through proactive quality management.