Senior Supplier Quality Engineer – Thermal Components
About The Position
AMD is seeking a Senior Supplier Quality & Reliability Engineer to join the Component Quality & Reliability team. In this highly visible role, you will serve as the subject matter expert responsible for driving component quality and reliability from concept through end-of-life. You will partner with key suppliers and cross-functional teams to ensure components meet AMD's quality, reliability, and manufacturability requirements, reducing product risk while delivering an exceptional customer experience. The ideal candidate is a highly experienced supplier quality professional with deep expertise in manufacturing processes, component reliability, and supplier quality management. You are comfortable leading technical discussions with global suppliers, driving complex root cause investigations, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, sourcing, operations, and quality organizations. You thrive in fast-paced environments, excel at balancing multiple priorities, and are passionate about continuous improvement and delivering world-class product quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, or a related technical discipline.
Nice To Haves
- Extensive experience in manufacturing, supplier quality, or quality engineering supporting liquid cooled thermal components, thermal component vendors, or thermal component engineering.
- Experience developing process quality plans and conducting supplier quality audits.
- Strong background leading 8D investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions, failure analysis, reliability testing, and Six Sigma methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with process capability analysis, measurement system analysis (GR&R, AR&R), cross-cavity validation, and process qualification.
- Proven supplier-facing experience with the ability to build strong relationships and influence technical and business decisions across multiple organizational levels.
- Experience working with international OEMs and contract manufacturers.
- Strong project management skills with experience managing multiple priorities in a global matrix organization.
- Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership and continuous improvement mindset.
- Willingness to travel internationally to supplier sites up to 25%.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary quality interface for strategic component suppliers supporting AMD business units.
- Lead supplier quality issue resolution, driving root cause analysis, containment actions, corrective actions (8D), and long-term improvements.
- Develop component quality and reliability requirements in partnership with cross-functional teams and ensure supplier compliance with AMD specifications.
- Lead mass production readiness reviews, including supplier manufacturing assessments and on-site factory audits.
- Define and monitor supplier quality KPIs throughout product development, production ramp, and end-of-life.
- Partner with design and operations teams to ensure supplier manufacturing capabilities meet AMD Design for Manufacturability (DFM) requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement in supplier quality, outgoing DPPM performance, reliability, and manufacturing capability.
- Collaborate closely with sourcing, design engineering, package reliability, board engineering, operations, quality leadership, and business units to support successful product launches.
Benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
