Quality Engineering Manager (Wafer)

Halo Agencies; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Halo Agencies seeks a Quality Engineering Manager to lead our production quality roadmap and customer quality strategy. You will bridge advanced material physics, high-volume production, and rigorous compliance to deliver dependable quality across markets.

You will build and lead a high-performing quality team, drive CI initiatives, and ensure audits with automotive-focused CSRs and COA integrity. A strong ISO/Audit background and Arena PLM/QMS expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of quality engineering experience in semiconductor, wafer manufacturing, or related electronics space
• Deep working knowledge of ISO frameworks and audit readiness
• Experience with Arena PLM/QMS modules and cross-functional CI initiatives

Responsibilities

• Champion Halo's quality roadmap across high-volume production and customer quality strategy
• Interface between Halo Agencies and market partners to ensure tolerances meet automotive, power, and industrial electronics needs
• Build and lead the quality engineering team; drive 8D, Kaizen, and DMAIC projects to improve process capabilities
• Own customer audits, CSRs, and COA integrity with strong emphasis on automotive scenarios
• Drive PPAP readiness and Product Change Notifications (PCNs) to customer approval
• Oversee RMA lifecycle focusing on root-cause analysis and rapid resolution
• Scale Arena QMS for multi-market deployments while maintaining IATF 16949 compliance

Skills

Leadership

Quality engineering

Root cause analysis

ISO 16949 knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Materials Science or related engineering

Tools

Arena PLM

Arena QMS

JMP

Minitab

MES

Job description

• As the Quality Engineering Manager, you will execute and champion Halo's production quality roadmap while refining our customer quality strategy. This role bridges advanced material physics, high-volume production, and rigorous compliance


• You will serve as the authoritative technical interface between Halo Industries and our diverse market partners, ensuring our manufacturing processes meet the tolerances required by our automotive, power, and industrial electronics customers


• You will play a foundational, transformative role in building and leading the quality engineering team, scaling the quality of our advanced wafering lines while seamlessly supporting customer qualification cycles


• Customer Quality Strategy & Execution


• Voice of the Customer: Serve as quality liaison to our customers, translating diverse feedback from both production and qualification materials into internal continuous improvement initiatives


• Audits & Compliance: Schedule, host, and manage comprehensive customer audits—with a strong emphasis on automotive deep-dives. Maintain absolute integrity over Certificates of Analysis (COA) and ensure continuous compliance with Customer Specific Requirements (CSRs)


• Change Management Integration: Champion and provide technical guidance for Product Change Notifications (PCNs) and Product Change Information Notes (PCIs), navigating and accelerating complex change workflows through to formal customer approval


• End-to-End RMA Lifecycle: Own the strategic technical execution of the customer RMA process, driving complex root-cause investigations, documenting failure analysis, and initiating rapid resolution


• QMS, Compliance, & High-Volume Sc-ability


• Multi-Market Quality Systems: Optimize, harden, and scale our Arena QMS platform to build a versatile Quality Management System capable of sustaining IATF 16949 compliance for automotive clients while maintaining agile, efficient pathways for non-automotive sectors


• Manufacturing Readiness Maturity: Enforce and mature frameworks to assess and elevate manufacturing readiness, managing internal and external Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) deliverables leveraging Arena PLM


• Quality Control: Sustain data-driven control points for our advanced manufacturing systems, owning the baseline for critical wafer geometry metrics


• Core Tools & Problem Solving: Advance and mature the deployment of AIAG Core Tools (APQP, FMEA, MSA, SPC). Drive the continuous improvement (CI) roadmap by spearheading cross-functional 8D corrective actions, Kaizen events, and DMAIC projects to address anomalies and optimize process capabilities


• Team Development & Leadership: Recruit, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of quality engineers. Establish key performance indicators (KPIs), foster professional growth, and balance resource allocation across scaling production lines

Benefits

• Health insurance


• Retirement plans


• Paid time off


• Professional development opportunities

Leadership & Customer Facing: 3+ years of formal management experience directly supervising quality engineering teams, combined with a proven track record of managing tier-1 customer quality interfaces

Education: Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Solid State Physics, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or other related technical discipline

Experience: 8+ years of quality engineering experience in semiconductor, wafer manufacturing, or advanced electronics space

Compliance Competency: Deep working knowledge of ISO frameworks with a track record of driving audit readiness

• Hands-on experience configuring, optimizing, or administering Arena PLM and Arena QMS modules to support rigorous configuration control


• Proven experience managing multiple compliance pipelines (e.g., standard industrial electronics alongside rigid automotive client requirements)


• Advanced proficiency in data-driven yield optimization tools (such as JMP or Minitab) and factory software systems (MES)


• Technical expertise in wide-bandgap semiconductor materials and wafering processes