Senior Component Supplier Quality Engineer - CA, San Jose, United States
Originally posted 26 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
AMD is seeking a candidate to join the Component Quality & Reliability team, driving component quality from concept to end of life across all AMD business units.
What you'll do
- Lead the supplier interface for key component suppliers, managing resolution of quality and reliability excursions through root cause, containment, and corrective actions. - Develop and enforce supplier compliance with AMD component specification requirements, including de-rating, electrical specifications, APQP, reliability, and outgoing DPPM quality. - Lead mass production readiness reviews of key supplier manufacturing facilities and participate in on-site factory audits. - Define supplier KPIs throughout development into mass production readiness, measuring and improving outgoing supplier quality control through component end of life. - Ensure alignment between design and operations to confirm supplier manufacturing tolerances satisfy AMD DFM requirements. - Travel internationally to supplier sites approximately 25% of the time.
What you'll need
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, or a similar field. - Experience managing supplier quality interfaces and driving root cause, containment, and corrective actions. - Experience defining component specification requirements, APQP, reliability, and DPPM metrics. - Experience verifying manufacturing tolerances against DFM requirements. - Ability to travel internationally up to 25% of the time.
Nice to have
- Extensive manufacturing and quality control experience with mechanical enclosures, discrete semiconductors, multi-chip modules, memory, power modules, or board products. - Experience developing process quality plans, conducting supplier quality audits, and driving 8D root cause, reliability testing, Six Sigma, and failure analysis. - Hands-on experience with process capability analysis, measurement system analysis (GRR, ARR), cross-cavity checks, and process qualifications. - Experience working with international OEMs and contract manufacturers.
Skills: supplier quality, reliability, 8D, DFM, root cause
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 55-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
459
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$151k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (459 roles · 73 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 9 | 459 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 50 | 10084 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 26 d | 55 d (−29 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $151k |
Skills observed across this category: supplier quality, reliability, 8D, DFM, root cause
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 78 open roles · median 123 d
- Infineon Technologies · 33 open roles · median 45 d
- Renesas Electronics · 26 open roles · median 31 d
- Applied Materials · 20 open roles · median 50 d
- Analog Devices · 18 open roles · median 66 d
- onsemi · 18 open roles · median 84 d
How we counted: 459 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 73 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 26 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.