Quality Engineer

Xiver; Eindhoven; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel allowance €0.23 per km

Monthly phone allowance

27 vacation days

Option to buy 13 extra vacation days

Job summary

XIVER is seeking a Quality Engineer at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. You will investigate quality issues, drive CAPA, and ensure follow-up with ownership across production and engineering teams.

In this role you will monitor quality performance, update procedures, and maintain documentation while communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders. You will join a growing MEMS-focused scale-up delivering high-tech solutions to global markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or quality-related field or comparable working level
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant quality experience
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
• Accurate and organized with a strong sense of ownership
• Confident communicator who can coordinate stakeholders and challenge when needed
• Good written and verbal communication skills in Dutch and English
• Unrestricted right to work in the Netherlands; visa sponsorship not provided

Responsibilities

• Investigate quality issues and customer complaints and identify root causes
• Drive corrective and preventive actions, including 8D investigations
• Coordinate improvement actions across teams and stakeholders, ensuring ownership and timely follow-up
• Monitor quality performance and translate data into clear actions
• Review and improve processes, guidelines and procedures
• Organise and maintain quality documentation, keeping procedures, instructions and records clear and up to date
• Contribute to product and process improvements that prevent recurring issues
• Work closely with production, engineering and other teams to resolve quality issues
• Communicate clearly with internal stakeholders, customers and external parties
• Bring people together, challenge constructively and ensure agreed actions are completed

Skills

Analytical thinking

Ownership

Communication skills

Dutch and English proficiency

Quality systems knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical or quality-related field

Job description

• Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands, High Tech Campus.

As Quality Engineer, you investigate quality issues, coordinate improvement actions and ensure proper follow-up. You connect teams and stakeholders, create clear ownership and keep quality documentation structured and up to date.

The challenge

XIVER is growing rapidly as a European MEMS foundry. Your challenge is to reduce quality disruptions, strengthen our processes and help us deliver consistent quality to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Investigate quality issues and customer complaints and identify root causes
• Drive corrective and preventive actions, including 8D investigations
• Coordinate improvement actions across teams and stakeholders, ensuring ownership and timely follow-up
• Monitor quality performance and translate data into clear actions
• Review and improve processes, guidelines and procedures
• Organise and maintain quality documentation, keeping procedures, instructions and records clear and up to date
• Contribute to product and process improvements that prevent recurring issues
• Work closely with production, engineering and other teams to resolve quality issues
• Communicate clearly with internal stakeholders, customers and external parties
• Bring people together, challenge constructively and ensure agreed actions are completed

Must-have

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or quality-related field, or comparable working level
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in a quality-related role
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
• Accurate and organized, with a strong sense of ownership
• Confident communicator who can coordinate stakeholders and challenge when needed
• Good written and verbal communication skills in Dutch and English
• Unrestricted right to work in the Netherlands. XIVER is unable to provide visa sponsorship or support work permit applications for this role

Nice to have

• Experience in high-tech manufacturing or semiconductors
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, SPC, FMEA or similar improvement methods
• Green Belt certification or similar continuous improvement training

What do we offer?

• You receive a competitive salary based on your work experience
• A full-time contract with XIVER
• A responsible role with direct impact on quality, products and processes
• 27 vacation days with the option to buy 13 extra days
• Travel allowance of €0.23 per km and a montly phone allowance.
• Office located at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven
• The opportunity to work with advanced semiconductor technologies in a growing and ambitious organisation

About XIVER

XIVER is a specialized high-tech semiconductor scale-up at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, where we work on innovative MEMS solutions for international high-tech markets. Since 2025, we have been independent, building on a long and strong history within Philips. From that foundation, we develop and produce high-quality MEMS chips: extremely small, smart components used in, among others, the consumer, automotive, medical and defense industries. We do this with a team of more than 100 highly educated specialists and an advanced cleanroom.

Our culture is characterized by an entrepreneurial, no-nonsense working environment in which collaboration, craftsmanship and responsibility are central to everything we do.

We are an ambitious scale-up and growing fast. This means you can grow with the success of the organization and make a direct impact. At XIVER, your contribution is of great value: here, you can truly make a difference and will be rewarded.

By joining XIVER, you become part of a highly skilled team, including top scientists and engineers dedicated to transforming the MEMS industry. At the heart of innovation, XIVER offers a collaborative, inclusive and entrepreneurial environment, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping of both the future of MEMS technology and the future of XIVER.