Quality Engineer, Semiconductor Hardware & Tools

Fab2; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Visa sponsorship

Life insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Learning opportunities

Commuter benefits

Office lunches

Job summary

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup in Austin, TX, is seeking a diligent Quality Engineer to ensure every component, tool, and fab works as designed. You will collaborate with designers, machinists, and suppliers to find defects, determine root causes, and prevent recurrence as we build chambers, gas lines, and lithography tools in-house.

Responsibilities include developing inspection plans, leading root-cause investigations, and establishing quality gates.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in manufacturing quality, supplier quality, manufacturing engineering, or test engineering for complex hardware.
• Experience developing inspection plans and acceptance criteria from drawings, specifications, and CAD models.
• Track record investigating manufacturing defects and implementing effective corrective actions.
• Hands-on experience inspecting mechanical and electromechanical components using standard measurement equipment.
• Experience with first-article inspection, nonconforming material, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action systems.
• Ability to work directly with engineers, technicians, machinists, and suppliers to resolve problems.

Responsibilities

• Develop inspection and acceptance criteria for components, tools, and complete fabs.
• Create incoming, first-article, in-process, and final inspection plans from drawings, specifications, CAD models, and BOMs.
• Inspect and qualify high-risk machined parts, PCBAs, vacuum components, assemblies, and production processes.
• Establish quality gates that prevent defects from moving into kits and builds.
• Lead root-cause investigations for build defects, test failures, leaks, rework, and supplier issues.
• Develop corrective actions and verify that they permanently resolve the problem.
• Establish processes for nonconforming material, quarantine, rework, use-as-is, and scrap.
• Improve assembly processes, fixtures, work instructions, and test methods based on defects found during builds.
• Help improve manufacturability, inspection access, tolerances, and acceptance requirements.
• Work directly with suppliers to resolve recurring component defects.
• Select, qualify, and maintain inspection, measurement, and calibration equipment.
• Build quality, inspection, traceability, and nonconformance workflows in our ERP/MES.
• Track first-pass yield, defects, rework, escapes, supplier quality, and corrective-action effectiveness.
• Train technicians and machinists to inspect their own work and record defects at the source.
• Support bring-up, acceptance, and release of tools and fabs.

Skills

Quality engineering

Inspection planning

Root-cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

CMMs

Optical inspection

Electrical test

Automated inspection

ERP/MES

Job description

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup in Austin, TX, is seeking a diligent Quality Engineer to ensure every component, tool, and fab works as designed. You will collaborate with designers, machinists, and suppliers to find defects, determine root causes, and prevent recurrence as we build chambers, gas lines, and lithography tools in-house.

Responsibilities include developing inspection plans, leading root-cause investigations, and establishing quality gates.