Senior Principal Engineer, Product Quality
Originally posted 15 December 2025 by the employer.
About the role
You will be responsible for determining effective ways to manufacture quality products and services, increasing productivity, and maximizing efficiency and process quality. In this role, you will lead a team in end-to-end quality assurance by analyzing in-house operations and customer data to establish preventive measures on non-conformances.
What you'll do
- Manage quality non-conformances by defining root causes during intake and filtering, ensuring timely closure of NCs, and implementing preventive actions. - Guide the team hands-on through 8D methodology to resolve and close non-conformances. - Setup and maintain the Customer Quality Dashboard and align with customers on critical indexes. - Manage structured inspection plans and collaborate across functions to improve test and assembly processes. - Lead and drive quality assurance metrics to targets, including managing contract manufacturers. - Propose process improvements, participate in deployment, and assist corporate functions with structural quality programs like QMS restructuring.
What you'll need
- Degree or equivalent working experience of >15 years, with preferably >10 years working in a manufacturing or engineering environment. - Professional experience in capital equipment building, preferably in the semiconductor industry. - Familiarity with operational excellence tools including Lean manufacturing, FMEA, 8D, PDCA, and Six Sigma. - Training in a minimum of Green Belt problem-solving methodology. - Proven track record driving problem-solving methodologies and influencing across organizations to drive change.
Skills: quality non-conformance, customer quality dashboard, preventive actions, NC management, process improvements
This role has been open 211 days — well above the 55-day median for Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering roles.
Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
2482
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$99k
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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 (2482 roles · 78 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 19 | 2482 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 259 | 10037 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 46 d | 55 d (−9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $99k |
Skills observed across this category: quality non-conformance, customer quality dashboard, preventive actions, NC management, process improvements
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 365 open roles · median 81 d
- Applied Materials · 259 open roles · median 40 d
- Entegris · 217 open roles · median 45 d
- Lam Research · 110 open roles · median 68 d
- Infineon Technologies · 99 open roles · median 48 d
- ASML · 66 open roles · median 50 d
How we counted: 2482 open Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 78 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.