Senior Component Supplier Quality Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc • San Jose, CA

22h

About The Position

AMD is seeking a subject matter expert to join its Component Quality & Reliability team. The role drives component quality from concept through end of life to differentiate the customer experience, reduce AMD product-quality risk, and build customer confidence. The engineer is accountable for key components used across AMD products and works with suppliers and teams across engineering, sourcing, global operations, quality leadership, and AMD business units. The position includes international travel to supplier sites approximately 25% of the time.

Requirements

• Strong communication and project-management skills, including the ability to build relationships and drive decisions across functions and levels in a global matrix organization.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple workstreams to tight deadlines.
• Self-starter with a positive attitude and a strong desire to succeed.
• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar field.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive manufacturing and quality-control experience with mechanical enclosures, discrete semiconductors, multi-chip modules, memory, power modules, or board products.
• Experience developing process quality plans, conducting supplier quality audits, and driving 8D root cause and corrective actions, reliability testing, Six Sigma, and failure analysis.
• Supplier-facing experience, including networking, building relationships, and driving effective decisions across functions and organizational levels.
• Hands-on experience with process capability analysis, measurement system analysis (GRR, ARR), cross-cavity checks, and process qualifications.
• Strong project-management experience within a global matrix organization.
• Experience working with international OEMs and contract manufacturers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the supplier interface for key component suppliers across AMD business units.
• Lead resolution of supplier quality and reliability excursions, including root-cause investigation, containment, and corrective actions.
• Develop component specifications with cross-functional input and drive supplier compliance with applicable requirements, including de-rating, electrical specifications, APQP, reliability, and outgoing DPPM quality, by production-release target dates.
• Lead mass-production readiness reviews of key supplier manufacturing facilities and participate in on-site factory audits as needed.
• Define supplier KPIs from development through mass-production readiness and measure and improve outgoing supplier quality control through component end of life.
• Ensure alignment between design and operations teams to confirm supplier manufacturing tolerances meet AMD DFM requirements.
• Partner with suppliers, AMD’s Sourcing Council, Component and Board Design teams, Silicon & Package Reliability teams, Engineering leadership, Global Operations and Quality leadership, and AMD business units.
• Travel internationally to supplier sites approximately 25% of the time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior