Lead Factory Quality Engineer - Ramp & Reliability

Ll Oefentherapie; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle seeks a Principal Supply Chain Engineer – Factory Quality to join the Quality organization, ensuring IQC/OQC, RCCA, and risk-based actions for complex hardware products. You’ll partner with California-based manufacturing teams to protect delivery, quality, and field reliability during ramps and shipments.

You will analyze yield data, conduct risk assessments, and drive containment with cross-functional teams to enable successful product ramps and ship readiness while maintaining robust

Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing quality, process quality, supplier quality, hardware quality, reliability engineering, or related engineering.
• Strong working knowledge of IQC, OQC, OBA, factory test flows, yield metrics, pareto analysis, retest rates, containment, and corrective‑action processes.
• Experience applying structured RCCA methodologies such as 8D, 5‑Why, Fishbone, CAPA, or other disciplined problem‑solving approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze failure data, distinguish known issues from emerging risks, and drive fact‑based problem resolution with manufacturing partners, suppliers, and internal engineering teams.
• Ability to exercise sound technical and quality judgment when working with incomplete data, particularly during production ramps or under shipment pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly summarize technical issues, quality risks, business impact, and required actions for cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating with external manufacturers, suppliers, manufacturing engineering, test engineering, field teams, repair operations, or similar organizations.

Responsibilities

• Monitor factory quality performance across assigned products and manufacturing sites, including IQC, OQC, OBA, L10/L11 yield, first-pass yield (FPY), accumulated-pass yield (APY), retest rates, failure pareto, and test stability.
• Analyze factory quality signals to identify emerging risks, containment gaps, unresolved manufacturing issues, and potential customer escapes before products ramp or ship.
• Lead factory issue containment, failure-data reviews, RCCA follow-up, and corrective-action validation in partnership with manufacturing partners, suppliers, and Oracle engineering teams.
• Ensure process escapes, rework risks, test instability, and recurring failure modes are documented, assigned to clear owners, and tracked through verified closure.
• Review factory test coverage to ensure known failure modes can be effectively detected before shipment.
• Validate the effectiveness of OBA controls in identifying workmanship, configuration, labeling, packaging, cosmetic, documentation, and functional escapes.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Test teams to address yield gaps, reduce debug and retest churn, improve test stability, and prevent recurring production‑line failures.
• Support NCAT, SSP, program‑readiness reviews, and executive quality updates with clear data, concise risk assessments, and recommended actions.
• Work frequently on‑site with California‑based manufacturing partners to verify that process controls, inspection criteria, rework instructions, escalation paths, and quality gates are established and effective.
• Build and maintain factory quality risk registers for key programs, including containment status, RCCA ownership, target closure dates, and residual risk.
• Support OK‑to‑Ramp and OK‑to‑Ship decisions by ensuring remaining quality risks are clearly documented, current, and actionable.

Skills

IQC/OQC

RCCA

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Manufacturing quality

Problem solving

Tools

GRR

FMEA

SPC

DOE

CAPA

Job description

Oracle seeks a Principal Supply Chain Engineer – Factory Quality to join the Quality organization, ensuring IQC/OQC, RCCA, and risk-based actions for complex hardware products. You’ll partner with California-based manufacturing teams to protect delivery, quality, and field reliability during ramps and shipments.

You will analyze yield data, conduct risk assessments, and drive containment with cross-functional teams to enable successful product ramps and ship readiness while maintaining robust