Lead Quality & Reliability Engineer, SoC/ASIC

ScaleFlux; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ScaleFlux is seeking a Staff Quality & Reliability Engineer to own reliability qualification and product quality for our advanced SoC and ASIC products with high‑speed interfaces. You will drive the full lifecycle from qualification planning through mass production and field returns.

This senior, hands-on role requires independent decision-making with incomplete data, clear communication to engineering leadership and customers, and leadership across Design, Product, Test, Foundry, OSAT, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Materials Science, Semiconductor Engineering, or related discipline.
• 8+ years in semiconductor industry with at least 5 years in quality, reliability, product engineering, or failure analysis.
• Experience supporting SSD controller, ASIC, storage, networking, or datacenter products.
• Demonstrated record of leading customer quality issues to resolution.
• Hands-on experience working with external test and FA labs, including writing test specifications and reviewing lab data.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the SoC reliability qualification plan per JEDEC/JESD47/AEC standards, with clear pass/fail criteria and sample sizes.
• Manage external reliability and FA labs, including quotes, POs, schedules, and ISO/IEC 17025 considerations.
• Analyze FIT, MTTF, and failure-rate projections, using Arrhenius models and chi-square confidence levels.
• Own customer-returned material (RMA) investigations and drive 8D CAPA with cross-functional teams.
• Act as primary quality contact for strategic customers and support audits and reviews.
• Participate in NPI quality planning and define production screening targets.
• Collaborate with fabs and OSATs to improve quality and assess process changes.

Skills

Quality engineering

Reliability testing

Lab coordination

Root-cause analysis

Customer-facing quality

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics/ Semiconductor

Tools

X-ray

C-SAM

Decap

SEM

FIB

EMMI

OBIRCH

Curve tracer

Job description

ScaleFlux is seeking a Staff Quality & Reliability Engineer to own reliability qualification and product quality for our advanced SoC and ASIC products with high‑speed interfaces. You will drive the full lifecycle from qualification planning through mass production and field returns.

This senior, hands-on role requires independent decision-making with incomplete data, clear communication to engineering leadership and customers, and leadership across Design, Product, Test, Foundry, OSAT, and