Senior QA Engineer — Lab Analytics & Metrology Lead

Entegris; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Entegris is seeking a Sr. Engineer, Quality Assurance to join the Analytics & Metrology team at the Burnet facility in Texas. You will oversee materials characterization, analytical methods, and lab systems to ensure customer acceptance, yield, and device performance.

You will lead the lab to implement process improvements affecting throughput, testing accuracy, and data stability, interfacing with production, quality, product management, and engineering to drive quality culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 5+ years in analytical lab, quality engineering, or QA.
• Working knowledge of ISO 17025 or equivalent lab quality systems.
• Experience with analytical method validation and investigations.
• Knowledge of quality tools: Pareto charts, FMEA, SPC/SQC, histograms, trend analysis, process mapping, design of experiments, cause-and-effect diagrams, 8D problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Ensure data integrity and compliance across analytical and electronic systems.
• Lead or support investigations (deviations, OOS/OOT, contamination events).
• Drive continuous improvement in analytical robustness and quality culture, reducing variability and improving testing stability.
• Lead analytical testing stability via SPC and data-driven methods.
• Provide oversight of training, analyst qualification, and competency.
• Review instrument qualification, calibration, and metrology practices.
• Approve change controls and risk assessments for analytical testing.
• Support audits (customer, ISO, internal).
• Review/approve analytical methods, validations, and method changes.
• Own and drive improvements in laboratory quality systems (ISO 17025/ISO 9001).
• Serve as lab-focused SME on quality concepts and problem solving tools (8D, RCA, FMEA); train and guide staff.

Skills

Data integrity

Investigations

Statistical process control

Training oversight

Instrument qualification

Change controls

Audits

Analytical methods

8D problem solving

Documentation

ISO 17025 knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry/Materials Science/Chemical Engineering/Physics

Tools

JMP

Minitab

Job description

Entegris is seeking a Sr. Engineer, Quality Assurance to join the Analytics & Metrology team at the Burnet facility in Texas. You will oversee materials characterization, analytical methods, and lab systems to ensure customer acceptance, yield, and device performance.

You will lead the lab to implement process improvements affecting throughput, testing accuracy, and data stability, interfacing with production, quality, product management, and engineering to drive quality culture.