Customer Quality Engineer/Manager

Onsemi; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the semiconductor industry is seeking a Customer Quality Engineer/Manager. This customer-facing role is fundamental to managing semiconductor quality requirements, developing customer relationships, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in quality engineering, excellent communication skills, and significant experience in customer-focused quality management.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a comparable role for semiconductor quality.
• Background in customer-facing roles and strategic leadership.
• Hands-on skills in quality tools like 8D, statistics, and structured problem-solving techniques.

Responsibilities

• Manage customers' quality requirements and develop relationships.
• Lead customer quality improvement programs.
• Handle customer escalations and quality issues.

Skills

Customer Quality Management

Quality Tools and Methodologies

Technical Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Engineering

Tools

8D Methodology

Fault Tree Analysis

Fishbone Analysis

Job description

TheCustomer Quality Engineer/Manageris an important customer-facing, hands-on role within the Global Customer Quality Engineering (CQE) team responsible for customer semiconductor quality requirements and developing customer relationships & partnership alliance.

Reporting to the US Customer Quality Director in the US CQE organization, you will be the main focal point and the voice of the customer for semiconductor quality and reliability. You will be the key customer facing contact to manage customers' quality requirements and developing customer relationships. You will act as the customer quality champion and voice of the customer within onsemi and ensuring customer requirements are understood and met.

The position will require a strong semiconductor quality background as daily collaboration with Sales, Product & Test Engineering, Product Quality, Central Engineering, Manufacturing & BU Operations is needed.

Responsibilities

• Be the key customer interface to manage customers' quality requirements and develop customer relationships.
• Lead customer quality improvement programs for customer KPI improvement (customer KPIs customer quality card, Customer scorecards via QBRs)
• Lead cross functional problem-solving activities and 8D and improve 5D cycle time by driving cross-functional global 8D teams to ensure expedient resolution of customer quality issues from initiation to closure.
• Improve Customer trust factor by listening & reviewing customer voice of concerns, reconcile customer Issues & hot items & setting up clear strategy to improve them towards customer satisfaction
• Review of Customer Quality Management and improving overall CQE KPIs
• Be a SME and drive closure of all quality-related issues, RMAs, and customer requests ensuring key stakeholders are informed on major customer quality topics.
• Handle semiconductor/automotive Customer field returns/8D/FA cases, and audit support.
• Establish and maintain a healthy customer relationship to increase customer satisfaction and conduct periodic feedback from customers.
• Ability to describe faults, manage analysis processes, and set up corrective actions with cross-functional teams
• Provide timely containment of customer escalations based on risk assessment and preliminary FA analysis
• Follow up and collaborate with customers to resolve issues, and timely report issues and handle emergency cases independently
• Summarize customer quality issues and take ownership of resolution in the assigned areas by promoting customer dashboard, customer pulse and customer score card techniques.
• Act as a host for customer quality audits and conduct/support successful audits and closure of post audit improvement/action items.
• Able to handle customer PCN (Product Change Notices) in a timely manner without impacting on customer quality, form fit and functioning of the device.
• Willingness to travel both domestic and international.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Masters/PHD in Engineering, Semiconductor/Quality, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant field with customer-facing skills and experiences.
• 10+ years in a comparable role for semiconductor quality, Customer Quality, Automotive Quality, Product Quality, Quality Management Systems, PCN Management Reliability Engineering, Failure Analysis, Product & Test Engineering or Production Quality Control in the semiconductor industry. Multiple roles a plus.
• Background in customer-facing roles and strategic leadership
• Hands-on skills in Quality tools and methodologies i.e. Is/Is-Not, Fault Tree Analysis, Fishbone, 5-why, 8D, statistics and structured problem-solving techniques.
• Strong technical problem solving and hands-on skills in quality tools and methodologies, especially Automotive, e.g. APQP, ZVEI, AEC, VDA, PPAP, etc.
• In-depth knowledge ofsemiconductor device & package fail mechanisms/symptoms
• Excellent ability to manage both internal and external dynamic environments and circumstances through influence and negotiation skills to respond to challenging information and situations.
• Excellent communication, technical writing and presentation skills.
• Candidate should have a solid quality / engineering background, along with good teamwork and communication skills across worldwide time zones.

About Us

onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.

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Job Info

• Job Identification 2503318
• Job Category Quality
• Posting Date 06/09/2025, 01:45 PM
• Degree Level Masters
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day
• Locations 150 Rose Orchard Way, San Jose, CA, 95134, US 2400 Lakeside Blvd #700, Richardson, TX, 75082-4346, US 5701 N Pima Road, Scottsdale, AZ, 85250, US