Senior Quality and Reliability Engineer - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$125,000 - $165,000 USD yearly
About the role
This role involves shaping product quality from concept design through customer deployment, ensuring the delivery of highly reliable parts. The Senior Quality and Reliability Engineer will address complex issues, influencing cross-functional teams and driving improvements.
What you'll do
- Partner with engineering, product, and manufacturing teams in New Product Introduction (NPI) to build quality and reliability into products.
- Engage suppliers and lead Part Qualification Process at supplier sites, identifying and addressing risks.
- Drive customer complex product quality issues, implement corrective actions, and support resolutions through root cause analysis.
- Monitor and improve supplier technical quality performance using statistical quality methods like SPC and reliability statistics such as Weibull.
- Drive 8D and FA projects towards successful implementation of solutions.
- Use data, analytics, and statistical methods to identify trends, assess risk, improve processes, and support proactive quality decisions.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering with 8+ years of related experience, or master’s degree with 6+ years of experience in Product Quality Engineering or a related field.
- Strong experience in product quality engineering, including product architecture, failure analysis, and reliability methodologies.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional projects.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience using data and statistics to drive quality improvements.
Nice to have
- Six Sigma Green Belt certification or similar process improvement experience.
Skills: product quality, reliability methodologies, root cause analysis, 8D, statistical quality methods
This role has been open 47 days — below the 55-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
467
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$150k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Ferric | All employers we track in this specialty (467 roles · 74 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 467 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 1 | 10147 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 47 d | 55 d (−8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $150k |
Skills observed across this category: product quality, reliability methodologies, root cause analysis, 8D, statistical quality methods
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 79 open roles · median 116 d
- Infineon Technologies · 34 open roles · median 40 d
- Renesas Electronics · 26 open roles · median 32 d
- STMicroelectronics · 19 open roles · median 26 d
- Analog Devices · 18 open roles · median 67 d
- Applied Materials · 18 open roles · median 59 d
How we counted: 467 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 74 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 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.