Principal, Product Quality Engineer - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$150,230 - $225,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role is responsible for end-to-end product quality and reliability governance across the product lifecycle, from early development through high-volume manufacturing and end-of-life. It owns quality strategy, risk posture, and execution outcomes for complex products.
What you'll do
- Own product quality governance and sign-off across Proposal Approval, Production Release, Mass Production readiness, and End-of-Life.
- Define, maintain, and execute the Product Quality Plan (PQP), including quality targets, CTQs, risk mitigation plans, and validation strategies.
- Establish quality and reliability targets including yield, defect rates, escape risk, and reliability margins.
- Define and enforce manufacturing quality controls including IQC, IPQC, FQC, SPC, and stop-ship criteria.
- Lead complex failure analysis spanning manufacturing, qualification, and field returns.
- Act as the single quality owner across design, product, test, manufacturing, supplier, and customer teams.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Materials, Physics, or related field).
- 10+ years of experience in product quality, reliability engineering, manufacturing quality, or supplier quality.
- Proven ownership of product quality across multiple lifecycle phases.
- Strong background in qualification, manufacturing processes, and root-cause analysis.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Nice to have
- Experience with semiconductor devices, advanced packaging, photonics, or system-level products.
- Deep familiarity with reliability qualification and field quality metrics.
- Experience driving PCNs, change control, and supplier governance.
Skills: product quality, reliability engineering, qualification, root-cause analysis, manufacturing quality, PQP
This role has been open 63 days — slightly above the 54-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
435
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Median days open
54 d
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Median salary
$159k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Marvell Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (435 roles · 70 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 435 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 13 | 9593 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 39 d | 54 d (−15 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $159k |
Skills observed across this category: product quality, reliability engineering, qualification, root-cause analysis, manufacturing quality, PQP
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 72 open roles · median 146 d
- Infineon Technologies · 33 open roles · median 36 d
- onsemi · 21 open roles · median 74 d
- Analog Devices · 20 open roles · median 47 d
- Applied Materials · 19 open roles · median 60 d
- Renesas Electronics · 18 open roles · median 55 d
How we counted: 435 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 70 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 30 Sept 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.