Operations and Customer Quality Engineer - Austin, TX, United States
$78,500 - $108,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 23 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading daily MRRT reviews and prioritizing quality notifications, DMRs, and manufacturing excursions, while ensuring timely containment actions.
What you'll do
- Lead daily MRRT reviews and prioritize quality notifications (QNs), DMRs, and manufacturing excursions.
- Drive timely containment actions to prevent additional escapes into production.
- Track corrective actions through closure and ensure accountability across functional organizations.
- Monitor DMR aging, backlog, and cycle-time reduction metrics.
- Leads investigations involving recurring quality failures, supplier escapes, manufacturing defects, and operational disruptions.
- Influences operational decisions regarding material disposition, stock purges, supplier escalations, and production recovery plans.
What you'll need
- Strong understanding of nonconforming material processes, MRB, MRRT, DMR, QN, SCAR, and 8D methodologies.
- Knowledge of manufacturing quality systems, supplier quality management, and corrective action processes.
- Understanding of SAP quality notification and material control processes.
- Understanding of manufacturing flow, production constraints, line-down impacts, and operational risk.
- Ability to balance quality requirements with factory throughput, customer commitments, and business objectives.
- Ability to communicate complex technical and quality issues to both technical and non-technical audiences in a clear and actionable manner.
Skills: quality notifications, DMRs, manufacturing excursions, corrective actions, supplier quality
This role has been open 21 days — well below the 52-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2481
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$97k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Applied Materials | All employers we track in this specialty (2481 roles · 79 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 257 | 2481 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 1113 | 9890 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 36 d | 52 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $97k |
Skills observed across this category: quality notifications, DMRs, manufacturing excursions, corrective actions, supplier quality
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 399 open roles · median 77 d
- Applied Materials (this employer) · 253 open roles · median 36 d
- Entegris · 232 open roles · median 35 d
- Lam Research · 109 open roles · median 57 d
- Infineon Technologies · 91 open roles · median 56 d
- onsemi · 70 open roles · median 69 d
How we counted: 2481 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 79 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.