Senior Quality Management System Engineer
About The Position
Altera is seeking a highly experienced, self-driven Senior QMS Engineer to lead and shape the enterprise Quality Management System (QMS) for its FPGA Semiconductor design and development organization. This role operates across automotive, ADG, industrial, and consumer markets. It is an individual contributor role with broad organizational impact and ownership, responsible for end-to-end QMS compliance and certification strategy, driving QMS gap assessment, audit readiness, quality culture at scale, and owning the end-to-end issue management system and process. The engineer will serve as a quality authority and strategic partner across engineering, operations, supplier quality, and customer-facing teams, ensuring quality systems are compliant, scalable, efficient, and aligned with high-reliability product delivery expectations. The role requires the ability to thrive in complex, evolving environments, operate with ambiguity, and influence across functions without direct authority.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Electrical, Electronics or related field) with minimum 10 years of working experience in semiconductor industry.
- Experience building and implementing enterprise QMS conformance.
- In-depth knowledge of AS9100D, ISO9001 and IATF16949.
- ISO9001 / AS9100D Lead Auditor certification.
- Track record in leading both internal and external audits (3rd party certification body, customers, vendors).
- Strong cross-functional leadership, project management and influential skills.
- Strong analytical and standards interpretation skill.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to influence decision-making and alignment across the organization.
Nice To Haves
- Experienced with FPGA products and expanded market segments such as automotive and ADG (Aerospace, Defense and Government).
- Wide scale of external and internal quality issue management experience across semiconductor design to manufacturing.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in semiconductor QMS area.
- Familiarity with PLM (Windchill), JIRA, JAMA and other enterprise solutions / software.
- Certified ASQ quality engineer / manager or Six Sigma Black Belt preferred.
- Strong knowledge and experience in designing end-to-end issue management, product containment, product recall and process / product exception management.
Responsibilities
- Lead and own enterprise QMS certification strategy and execution, for ISO 9001 (corporate baseline) and AS9100D (ADG baseline) across the company throughout the planning, execution and implementation.
- Drive IATF 16949 (automotive QMS) conformance across the organization.
- Serve as the primary interface with certification bodies, auditors, consultants, and customers.
- Own and drive audit governance, including: Internal audit program design and execution, External certification and surveillance audits, Cross-site audit alignment and readiness.
- Ensure continuous audit readiness through strong process discipline and evidence-based compliance.
- Establish and drive QMS performance metrics (KPIs) and management review mechanisms.
- Partner with global teams to ensure consistent QMS implementation across locations.
- Lead vendor, consultation and certification bodies management for all QMS activities.
- Drive corporate policies and external QMS communication.
- Own customer, internal, and supplier issue management framework and integrated systems for issue management.
- Collaborate with cross-functional organizations to establish and drive KPIs.
- Drive continuous improvement and retrospective process for critical issues.
- Establish issue management training framework and content development.
- Enable structured problem solving and impact analysis methodologies (8D, 5-Why).
- Own risk and impact analysis, containment and customer-facing processes as end-to-end issue management.
- Drive continuous improvement and quality issue closure effectiveness.
- Enable data-driven quality insights and monitoring.
- Drive effective process and end-to-end system management and improvement.
- Enable end-to-end traceability from defect identification to resolution and improvement.
Benefits
- Incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
