(Senior) Director, Product Quality
Originally posted 16 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As (Senior) Director, Product Quality, you will lead quality and reliability for equipment platforms supporting advanced process technologies, reporting directly to the VP, Global Quality.
What you'll do
- Serve as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for product quality across assigned product lines, developing and executing quality strategies aligned with business units. - Lead Quality engagement across the New Product Introduction (NPI) lifecycle and own deliverables within the Product Lifecycle Control (PLC) process, including Product and System FMEA, Critical Parts Control, and Risk Registers. - Establish reliability measurement methodologies, qualification criteria, and reliability apportionment models while analyzing field reliability data to improve equipment robustness. - Own Top-X customer quality issues and Tier 1 escalations, acting as the primary quality interface for strategic customers and leading cross-functional containment and corrective actions. - Facilitate structured problem-solving using 8D, DMAIC, FMEA, Fault Tree Analysis, and Root Cause Analysis methodologies. - Coach and mentor engineering teams on failure analysis and root cause investigations utilizing 5 Whys and fishbone diagrams.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Reliability, or a related technical discipline. - 15+ years of experience in Quality, Reliability, Engineering, or Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturing. - Proven experience directing New Product Introduction (NPI) and Product Lifecycle Management quality deliverables. - Experience managing customer quality escalations and leading complex cross-functional problem-solving efforts. - Deep technical understanding of semiconductor equipment systems, Statistical Process Control (SPC), reliability modeling, and Quality Management Systems (QMS). - Willingness and ability to travel internationally approximately 40%.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Engineering, Quality, Reliability, or a related technical discipline.
Skills: product quality, reliability engineering, NPI quality, FMEA, root cause analysis
This role has been open 96 days — well above the 55-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
439
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$153k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | ASM International | All employers we track in this specialty (439 roles · 70 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 439 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 267 | 10042 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 131 d | 55 d (+76 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $153k |
Skills observed across this category: product quality, reliability engineering, NPI quality, FMEA, root cause analysis
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 79 open roles · median 134 d
- Infineon Technologies · 32 open roles · median 45 d
- Renesas Electronics · 23 open roles · median 41 d
- Analog Devices · 19 open roles · median 58 d
- STMicroelectronics · 18 open roles · median 28 d
- onsemi · 17 open roles · median 75 d
How we counted: 439 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 70 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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.