Component Quality Development Eng.

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · San Jose, CA · Engineering

This role focuses on component quality development engineering at AMD, ensuring component quality from concept to end of life. Responsibilities include managing supplier interfaces, resolving quality/reliability excursions, developing component specifications, leading readiness reviews, defining KPIs, and ensuring DFM compliance. The role requires experience in manufacturing and quality control, supplier audits, root cause analysis, and project management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead supplier interface for key component suppliers across all AMD Business Units.
  2. Lead and drive resolution of supplier quality/reliability excursions (primary interface with supplier on quality excursions to drive root cause/containment/corrective action/etc. as required).
  3. With cross-functional team input, develop and drive supplier compliance to AMD component spec requirements as applicable by commodity (i.e. De-rating, Electrical spec requirements, APQP, reliability, outgoing DPPM quality, etc.) by production release target dates.
  4. Lead mass production readiness review of key supplier manufacturing facilities, participating in on-site factory audits as required.
  5. KPIs that supplier must deliver through development into MP readiness, and measure and improve outgoing supplier quality control through component end-of-life.

Skills

Required

  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science or similar.
  • Experience in Manufacturing and Quality Control
  • Experience developing process quality plans
  • Supplier facing experience
  • Strong communication skills
  • Highly organized
  • Able to prioritize
  • Juggling multiple workstreams to tight deadlines
  • Self-starter
  • Positive attitude
  • Strong desire to succeed
  • Strong project management skills
  • Working in a global matrix organization

Nice to have

  • mechanical enclosures
  • discrete semiconductors
  • multi-chip modules
  • memory
  • power modules
  • board products
  • supplier quality audits
  • driving 8D root cause/corrective actions
  • reliability testing
  • 6 sigma
  • failure analysis
  • network, build relationships and drive effective decision-making across multiple functions and levels within the organization
  • Hands on experience with process capability analysis
  • measurement system analysis (GRR, ARR)
  • cross-cavity check and process qualifications
  • Experience working with international OEMs/ CM
  • Travel internationally to supplier sites – 25%

What the JD emphasized

  • subject matter expertise
  • high visibility role for highly experienced candidates
  • Lead supplier interface
  • Issue Management
  • Component Spec Management
  • MP Readiness Review Lead
  • Define Component KPIs
  • DFM (Design for Manufacturability) compliance