Senior Supplier Quality Engineer

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Supplier Quality Engineer responsible for working with NVIDIA's component suppliers to develop and implement world class supplier quality programs for our AI centric datacenter, automotive and consumer products. This is a meaningful role that will closely work with Hardware Engineering, Product Engineering, and Quality Engineering groups within NVIDIA, as well as our vendors and contract manufacturer partners. The ideal candidate will have stellar analytical skills with a deep rooted structured problem-solving background and show proven experience in failure analysis resolution. Coupled with strong grasps of NPI quality methodologies to bring up supplier quality metrics, this individual shall lead activities properly defining quality expectations at component level.

Requirements

Hold a B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Engineering (Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or equivalent) or equivalent experience.
8+ year’s relevant experience in a complex, high-volume manufacturing environment with audit experience.
Strong knowledge of manufacturing techniques and process/quality controls for mechanical components.
Proven understanding of data driven, statistical QC and QA problem solving methodology.

Responsibilities

Managing end-to-end component quality, working closely with suppliers and internal teams to assure new product readiness and ensure performance meets key quality and reliability metrics.
Qualify component vendors supplying tester components, bring up inspection and tester vendors to meet tray and rack level testing demand.
Establish and lead activities within internal and external teams to ensure proper definition of quality expectations appropriate for each mechanical component.
Compile and evaluate data to understand acceptable limits of manufacturing process.
Drive component Failure Analysis activities, including: understanding component failures and defining FA goals, coordinating complete FA work at suppliers’ FA facilities, summarizing and presenting FA results, implementing Corrective Actions and lessons learned following 5-Why practice.
Develop continuous improvement plan with suppliers and track/reporting progress.
Track supplier’s quality Key Performance Indicators closely.
Prepare and present business review quality sections, manage process/product improvement changes, and lead quality audits at supplier sites.
Monitor supplier’s alignment to new product introduction schedules to ensure predictable and stable mass production volume ramp.
Quality representative to internal teams, supporting activities for customer quality and internal quality requirements.