Quality Systems & Supplier Qualification Engineer

Touchdown Labs; Oregon; On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Touchdown Labs is seeking a Quality Systems & Supplier Qualification Engineer to translate customer-critical characteristics into controlled specifications and independent release evidence.

You will manage CTQs, supplier audits, CAPA, and change control across incoming materials, supplier changes, and final acceptance, ensuring only qualified outputs move downstream. Collaborative role across process, quality, and supplier teams.

Qualifications

• Semiconductor quality systems, document control, supplier quality, and statistical methods.

Responsibilities

• Define CTQs, nonconformance, CAPA, audits, supplier acceptance, and independent product release evidence.
• Qualify suppliers using specs, capability, change notification, and incoming acceptance.
• Audit records and ensure failed material cannot be shipped as accepted product.
• Set incoming and outgoing acceptance plans with sample rationale, measurement uncertainty, and accountable reject signers.
• Investigate supplier or process changes across affected lots and verify corrective action before release.

Skills

Quality systems

Supplier quality

Statistical methods

Document control

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Open role

Quality Systems & Supplier Qualification Engineer

Why this work matters

Touchdown is engineering the manufacturing behind storage, memory systems, and other chips. This role helps turn a buyer's physical result into a qualified process or a defensible decision to use an existing supplier. Advanced packaging is our intended first fab class; no production fab is operating today.

Overview

You will turn customer-critical characteristics into controlled specifications and independent release evidence. The role spans incoming materials, supplier changes, in-process deviations, final acceptance, and corrective action. You will make the reject path as clear as the acceptance path and avoid qualifying a supplier from a quote or a single good sample.

What you will own

• Control specifications, nonconformance, CAPA, audits, supplier acceptance, and independent product release evidence.
• Define document control, CTQs, nonconformance, CAPA, and independent release authority.
• Qualify suppliers using specs, capability, change notification, and incoming acceptance.
• Audit records and ensure failed material cannot be shipped as accepted product.
• Set incoming and outgoing acceptance plans with sample rationale, measurement uncertainty, and accountable reject signers.
• Investigate supplier or process changes across affected lots and verify corrective action before release.

Technical territory

CTQs, specification control, sampling, measurement-system analysis, supplier audits, process capability, change notification, nonconformance, CAPA, traceability, reliability records, and independent disposition.

Representative outputs

• A quality plan with CTQs, supplier controls, hold/reject authority, and corrective-action workflow.
• A quality plan that names specifications, owner, checker, hold, and release evidence.
• A supplier qualification and change-control packet for one critical input.
• A nonconformance case demonstrating containment, root cause, corrective action, effectiveness check, and disposition.

What success looks like

• Rejects and deviations have traceable disposition and accountable owners.
• Customer acceptance rests on measured product evidence.
• No failed or unreviewed material moves downstream as qualified output.
• A supplier change is evaluated against product impact before it enters an accepted route.

What you bring

• Semiconductor quality systems, document control, supplier quality, and statistical methods.
• Built or operated semiconductor, packaging, or precision-manufacturing quality systems.
• Can apply statistical sampling and supplier-quality methods.
• Can lead a cross-functional reject or corrective-action decision.
• Can write clear specifications and acceptance tests that process and supplier teams can execute.
• Can make independent release or reject decisions from measured evidence under schedule pressure.

Helpful experience

• ISO 9001 or IATF 16949 environments
• Supplier audits and reliability qualification
• Advanced packaging quality
• Gauge R&R and capability analysis
• Customer audit preparation

How the role works

• Applications are open; the exact work location, arrangement, compensation, and start date will be discussed during hiring.
• Early work can produce engineering plans and partner comparisons. Hands-on work begins only at qualified, authorized facilities.
• You will work with process, equipment, quality, test, customer, and supplier owners as the scope requires.