Quality Engineer

ovt; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

OVT is seeking a Quality Engineer to assure product quality from development through servicing, driving proactive quality strategies during design and ramp-up. You will perform failure analysis, coordinate CAPA activities, and work with customers, foundries, and manufacturing to resolve issues and improve reliability.

The role requires a Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and hands-on experience with IC fabrication, digital design, and statistical quality methods.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field.
• Strong knowledge of digital IC design and IC fabrication.
• Proficient in C programming and RTL design (VHDL/Verilog).
• Familiar with reliability prediction and semiconductor physics.

Responsibilities

• Assure quality across product lifecycle from development to servicing.
• Lead quality strategies during design and ramp-up phases.
• Drive CAPA and cross-department improvements for reliability and yield.
• Coordinate with customers and supply chain to resolve issues.
• Perform failure analysis using pFA/eFA tools and report root causes.

Skills

C programming

Digital IC design

RTL design

VHDL programming

Verilog programming

Semiconductor physics

Reliability prediction

Statistical analysis

Education

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Visual C

Excel

Job description

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Job Duties:

• Assure quality throughout the product lifecycle, including product development, manufacturing, failure analysis, production release, and servicing.
• Plan and execute quality strategies during the design and development phases by defining standard operating procedures for electrical quality control and assurance, ensuring that risks are mitigated and issues are promptly corrected during ramp-up.
• Lead automotive quality improvement initiatives by implementing proactive measures to reduce test-related quality incidents, driving cross-department Lessons Learned activities for manufacturing and test items, improving outgoing electrical quality control processes, and managing Safe Launch and High Voltage Stress Testing for automotive products.
• Ensure product quality and reliability through statistical yield analysis techniques such as and Statistical Yield and Bin Limit (SYL, SBL) evaluations.
• Perform failure analysis utilizing pFA and eFA tools — including cross-sectioning, emission microscopy, X-ray analysis, SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope), optical microscopy, oscilloscope probing, and OBIRCH — to identify failure modes, localize physical hot spots, and determine root causes.
• Conduct FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) and statistical data analysis — such as box plots, histograms, distributions, scatter charts, normalization, and linearity — using MATLAB, Visual C, Excel, and internal OVT tools for reliability and yield assessments.
• Handle customer complaint (CCN) cases and customer return analyses, providing detailed failure reports and coordinating with cross-functional teams to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Communicate directly with end customers and supply chain partners, including package houses and foundries (e.g., TSMC), to resolve quality and process issues identified during IC manufacturing. Apply IC fabrication knowledge to evaluate wafer- or process-related deviations.
• Provide remote support for customers with multi-region manufacturing sites producing camera modules and related automotive imaging products.
• Drive Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA) across functional engineering teams to ensure continuous improvement, enhance product robustness, and maintain stable production quality.

Requirements:

Require Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

Must acquire the following knowledge and/or skills from the graduate level course study:

• Digital IC design
• IC fabrication
• C programming
• RTL design
• VHDL programming
• Verilog programming
• Semiconductor physics
• Reliability prediction

Annual base salary for this role in California, US is expected to be between $120,182 - $125,000. Actual pay will be determined on a number of factors such as relevant skills and experience, and the pay of employees in the similar role.