Senior Product Quality Engineer
Company/Department Description
Billions of NXP products power and connect lives across the globe. They perform critical circuit functions, transmit high-speed digital data and endure hostile environments. Our quality systems help ensure that every solution is safe, cost-effective and reliable by design
Today, China represents approximately 35% of NXP’s annual revenue, Chinese customers are continuing to grow in significance in several high-growth sectors - such as electric vehicles, power and energy, systems and smart factories.
To further strengthen our Quality team in Tianjin, we are looking for an experienced automotive Product Quality Engineer to support Driver and Energy Systems Product Line organization who are developing solutions enabling high performances for electric vehicles.
Responsibilities:
As a Product Reliability & Quality Engineer, you play a key role in New Product Introduction (NPI), ensuring world-class automotive quality and reliability from development to early production.
You have ownership for the quality aspects of new product development, qualification, problem resolution, and release to production.
You work within cross-functional teams (design, test, product engineering, manufacturing, failure analysis, and customers) to define, challenge, and execute quality strategies, ensuring successful product launches and best in class quality levels.
New Product Introduction & development :
- Lead and coordinate quality and reliability aspects during product development and qualification
- Provide technical direction for defectivity screen development, Design for Reliability, Design for Manufacturability, Zero Defect Initiatives and pre-qualification evaluations.
- Define and drive qualification strategy, safe launch, and zero-defect initiatives
- Perform risk assessments with statistical data analysis and ensure mitigation plans are in place
- Translate customer and market requirements into quality plans (APQP, checkpoints, Extended mission profiles, etc.)
- Lead product teams through quality issue resolution using problem solving methods (8D problem solving, FTA, 3x5Whys…)
- Ensure readiness for release to production with high automotive quality standards
Change management Quality support
- Define qualification requirements for various manufacturing changes (fab, assembly, burn-in, test, transfer).
- Interface with internal and external factories on reliability and quality topics for released products.
- Lead product teams through quality issue resolution using problem solving methods.
Customer Support
- Support customers with technical reliability and quality consult.
- Work with customers to address product reliability and quality questions.
- Engage with customers on new products.
Requirements:
- Bachelor or Master degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or equivalent
- 5/7+ years of experience in semiconductor / automotive quality or engineering roles
- Strong knowledge of:
- Quality & reliability methodologies (FMEA, 8D, DOE, statistical analysis)
- Semiconductor manufacturing and assembly processes
- Design and/or application experience
- Automotive Qualification and NPI processes (AEC)
- Ability to:
- Work in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
- Lead cross-functional collaboration and influence stakeholders
- Drive structured problem solving and risk-based decision making
Furthermore, you are:
- Persistent in problem solving in a dynamic environment working in multi-functional teams
- Result driven, customer focused
- Fluent in English language (Verbal and written),
- Demonstrating communication & coordination skills to manage internal and external stakeholders
- Autonomous, creative and you are taking initiatives
- Flexibility to adjust to change and multiple ongoing issues in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.