Director of Product Quality & Assurance

Renesas Electronics; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics seeks a Director of Product Assurance to lead quality across the Module business within the Performance Core Power group.

This role embeds a quality-first mindset throughout the product lifecycle, defines and drives quality standards, processes, and metrics, and partners with module manufacturers and suppliers to ensure robust corrective and preventive actions from development through post-launch.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product or quality engineering teams
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering; Masters preferred
• Excellent communication, organizational, and people skills with proven cross-functional leadership
• Solid understanding of new product development, semiconductor supply chain, and production environments
• Expertise with statistical analysis, structured problem solving, and data-driven decisions
• Ability to manage supplier excursions and customer escalations
• Knowledge of commercial and automotive quality standards

Responsibilities

• Champion and enforce quality standards across all phases of execution
• Align customer, vendor, and internal requirements to ensure seamless delivery
• Own and resolve quality issues end-to-end, driving corrective and preventive actions
• Lead continuous quality improvement initiatives using data-driven insights
• Serve as primary liaison to customer QA teams, ensuring alignment and responsiveness
• Embed customer-specific quality requirements into design, development, and production
• Lead cross-functional teams to rapidly resolve critical quality issues
• Drive adoption of structured problem-solving methodologies across the organization
• Manage external ISO/IATF audits, ensuring compliance and closure of non-conformances

Skills

Quality leadership

Cross-functional teams

Data-driven decisions

Root-cause analysis

Quality standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Masters preferred

Job description

Renesas Electronics seeks a Director of Product Assurance to lead quality across the Module business within the Performance Core Power group.

This role embeds a quality-first mindset throughout the product lifecycle, defines and drives quality standards, processes, and metrics, and partners with module manufacturers and suppliers to ensure robust corrective and preventive actions from development through post-launch.